What you can take from this site is the ability to think for yourself and lessen or eliminate your conviction with hearsay and some (not all) really inaccurate hearsay at that.

Forget right and wrong in the debate and seek accurate perspective. You and only you can be the judge. In the end accuracy eliminates the need to judge or use the measure of right and wrong in determining the source of your challenges- and your prowess in meeting them while recognizing the sovereign joy of living.

Otherwise you will be like a solitary misdirected seal in the midst of of killer whales.

And TJ, dragging out old Pascal one more time? Really? Well, my response to that is a quote from the wisdom of that well-known sage, Homer Simpson:

“Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we’re just making him madder and madder!”

How many times do we have to be subjected to Pascal’s Wager? As rational, thinking humans, those who reject all superstitious nonsense, gods have no punitive force to compel us. Threats of hell, as implied by you may work on weak or lazy minds but they do not work on people who demand evidence instead of platitudes.

Your bible is not proof, it is the claim. Modern science has shown that the claim is baseless. The earth is not the centre of the universe – how could an all-knowing god write or inspire such an obvious error.

When Ubi says that there probably is no god, it is the same as saying there probably is no Santa Claus. It is just the rigor of her rationality that allows for an infinitely small, like a grain of sand compared to all of the universe, chance of a god. All that she is saying is that it is impossible to gather the evidence that Russell’s Teapot does not exist.

You have wasted a lot of time, and you, like a few billion others, look foolish talking to yourself.

Genesis 17:19
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Exodus 12:14, 17, 24
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. … And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. … And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
Leviticus 23:14,21,31
It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
Deuteronomy 4:8-9
What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? … teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 11:1, 26-28
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. (v.1)
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God. (vv.26-28)
1 Chronicles 16:15
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations … an everlasting covenant.
Psalm 119:151-2, 160
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. (vv.151-2)
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. (v.160)
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Malachi 4:4
Remember ye the law of Moses.
Matthew 5:18-19
Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 16:17
It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

It appears that your jesus in forgiving the adulterous woman, broke the law. I am aware that the bible contains passages that can be interpreted as abrogating the law, but all that proves is that the bible is a mishmash of contradictory claims that can best be described as “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”. The bible is a ridiculous book to base ones life on. God is a ridiculous concept to base ones life on. Of the thousands of gods that have been fervently believed in, your god is just another waiting to be rejected.

Please take your preaching elsewhere, we’ve all heard far too much of it already. If preaching were convincing, we never would have left religion.

And cut it out with the “you never knew god” stuff. Consider that all the people in the world who claim to “know god” all come up with different things that god is telling them. So either this almighty all-powerful being can’t communicate accurately with humans, or most of these people don’t actually “know god” at all. Or none of them do. I think that most probably there isn’t a god at all, in which case you don’t “know god” either. You’ve created an image in our head of a god, like yourself only bigger. That’s what you’re bowing down to. So it’s easy to feel like you have a “close personal relationship” with something that’s all in your head.

And “perfect love” is a scam. There’s only us humans on this planet, doing the best that we can. It’s better to show real day-to-day love to them, instead of going on about some “perfect love” pie-in-the-sky fantasy.