/lit/ - Literature

>>18124778
139:12.11.
The Master many times, both privately and publicly, had warned Judas that he was slipping, but divine warnings are usually useless in dealing with embittered human nature. Jesus did everything possible, consistent with man's moral freedom, to prevent Judas's choosing to go the wrong way. The great test finally came. The son of resentment failed; he yielded to the sour and sordid dictates of a proud and vengeful mind of exaggerated self-importance and swiftly plunged on down into confusion, despair, and depravity.
139:12.12.
Judas then entered into the base and shameful intrigue to betray his Lord and Master and quickly carried the nefarious scheme into effect. During the outworking of his anger-conceived plans of traitorous betrayal, he experienced moments of regret and shame, and in these lucid intervals he faintheartedly conceived, as a defense in his own mind, the idea that Jesus might possibly exert his power and deliver himself at the last moment.
139:12.13.
When the sordid and sinful business was all over, this renegade mortal, who thought lightly of selling his friend for thirty pieces of silver to satisfy his long-nursed craving for revenge, rushed out and committed the final act in the drama of fleeing from the realities of mortal existence—suicide.

Only absolute brainlets believe in atheism, though some retards who see themselves as intellectuals and pretend to have achieved some kind of transcendental truth will insist that’s not the case

God still exists. Doesn’t matter what Nietzsche, Hitchens or Dawkins said. Yes, you are still a retard if you are atheist, regardless of your reasons

>>13656429
>all that time reading philosophy that I could have been reading sacred religious texts

haha

One day, a lot sooner than you think, you'll be lying in bed with a drip attached to your arm, wheezing your final breaths. If you have the strength, you'll start blubbering.

'I don't want to die!' you'll sob. 'I was wrong for hoping in the tech singularity! I was wrong for hoping in transhumanism.'

If you're not too proud, maybe you'll finally admit what you should have hoped in. 'I wish I'd hoped in you, Lord!' And if you think that, and really mean it, you'll be saved.

But maybe you won't be that lucky. Maybe you'll be thinking smugly how arrogant and condescending Christians are as you cross the road without looking--BAM!

Or maybe our blessed Lord will return to judge your soul and decide your eternal reward as you're reading The God Delusion in bed, chortling haughtily to yourself.

>Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

The fact that we feel as though we have free will is enough to make it the de facto truth

Human perception is all that we can comprehend, and the fact that most perceive free will makes it true. Deterministic drives are just the technical parts of the larger picture.

>>13192905
>sophisticated rational concepts of God do not exist
>some concepts of God are not more enlightened than others
>only my strawman concepts of God exist

>if the Bible is fallible it means God doesnt exist!