@steve reid,
Quote:I am a biological robot,
No mate, you’re simply living in a state of self-delusion owing to your erroneous belief despite all the invalidating evidence.
Quote:"There are many paths before me, and I have the illusion I am free to follow which ever path I choose."
Indeed, there are many paths before you and you are free to choose whatsoever path that you want to, the only trouble is, you have deluded yourself into believing that of the many choices you could have made according to your own free will, the choice that you did make was already determined before you were even born.
Quote:Would you or your God want me to lie about my beliefs because they throw up some very troubling questions.
The only troubling question your mistaken belief throws up, is how in hell can anyone possibly deceive themselves into believing that in the long run, they cannot and will not be held accountable in any way for any of their actions, good or bad, because they had no control in the matter.
You impose your law on the society in which you live;
“Don’t kill me or mine, don’t thieve from me of mine, done have sex with my spouse etc, etc. etc, and you believe that you can break the very law that you impose on the world around you and not be held accountable, because you had no control over your life whatsoever. Well, I’m afraid you’re in for a rude awakening, when the great pregnant androgynous woman is reunited to her Lord after the great Sabbath is finished and all physical life forms remaining of this planet are incinerated as foretold through the prophet Zephaniah, and the umbilical cord that binds the Son of Man to his mother body is severed.
Zephaniah 1: 2-3; The LORD said, “I am going to destroy everything on earth, all human beings and animals, birds and fish. I will bring about the downfall of the wicked. I will destroy the whole human race, and no survivors will be left. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Verse 18; On the day when the LORD shows his fury, not even all their silver and gold will save them. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of his anger. He will put an end — a sudden end — to everyone who lives on earth.
It is then that THE SON OF MAN, the Most -High to have developed within the creation, divides all the disembodied spirits who have died the first death and says to those on his left; “I was hungry but you would not feed me, thirsty but you would not give me a drink; I was a stranger but you would not welcome me in your homes, naked but you would not clothe me; I was sick and in prison but you would not take care of me.’ ‘Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!
That Lake burning with fire and sulfur in which the immortals suffer everlasting torment, is the eternal punishment for the unrepentant wicked human spirits, ‘
THE SECOND DEATH’ eternal and everlasting death of those minds/spirits from which there is no return: The eternal punishment. Everlasting oblivion.
Apparently
THE SON OF MAN believes that they are to be held accountable for their own actions committed according to their God given gift of free will
Quote:Our evolution and destiny will be determined by cause and effect.
An unbroken golden genetic thread of life connects who I am, back through time, to and beyond the first primitive life form to have crawled out of the primordial waters of the earth. Who I am is the living earthly temple of the spirits of all its descendants who are my ancestral spirits, who live behind the veil of the flesh within the innermost sanctuary of this temple that is “WHO I AM”.
Quote:As I have already written, I sincerely hope that I am wrong and that the universe is not ruled by cause and effect but hoping for such does not make it so.
You are wrong, so now rejoice in the fact that your hopes have been vindicated.
To all of you who’ve ever asked, “Where does forever end?”
Where are the boundaries to eternity, or can eternity begin?
Did God once wallow in the mud and frolic with the swine?
Did the consciousness of life begin in the body of mankind?”
To all those souls in torment, who from the wilderness cry out,
“All you Swamis, Priests, and Gurus, tell us what life’s all about.
Are you teachers of enlightenment, or blind men who lead the blind
Can the beginning and the end be one, who encompasses’ all time?”
To the prisoners in the dungeons of those shepherds of the night
To the tortured souls in those dungeon holes, who long to see the light
Let these words be milk and honey, to strengthen everyone
Who are waiting for the brilliant light of He who is to come.