From: Steve Davies (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 08:53:18 MDT
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From: Zero Powers <zero_powers@hotmail.com>
To: extropians@extropy.org <extropians@extropy.org>
Date: 11 May 2001 15:34
Subject: Re: Pascal's wager
>>From: Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net>
>
>> > Zero Powers wrote: You might also point out that if you live a life of
>> > "sin" you only have a 50% chance of going to hell...
>>
>>Zero, what church were you raised in? (Sounds like a fun one.)
>>In mine, your probability of hell (P-sub-h) was durn near 1, should
>>one stray from the straight and narrow. I was one of those
>>suckers that stayed with the old S+N. Guess its never too
>>late to have a misspent youth, tho.
>
>Spike, I was raised fundie Christian. And as you know if you didn't tow
the
>line (repent, accept Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, etc., etc.)
>your chances of eternal damnation were 100%. What I meant above was that
>there is only a 50% chance (at best) that that theology is accurate.
>
>
>
>-Zero
As I understand it predestination says that even if you do toe the line you
still have a good chance of being one of the damned - after all God decided
if he was going to save you or not before he even made the world!
Steve Davies
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