Please pardon Pohemi420's vitriol, but I do have to remind you of what we've said multiple times, in multiple ways:
If you're non-religious, being told "it will happen" and receiving warnings of hell and damnation is completely meaningless. It's a fly on a rhino's back. There's no evidence or logic to it (the Bible by itself wouldn't represent either), so why would we accept it unquestioningly, as you do?
You said you're not trying to convert us here and now, but that's not true based on the language you're using. You expect us to either convert on the spot or to eventually "see the light." But that's not how it works in real life. If you're really interested in having a discussion, rather than proselytizing, you'll actually listen to us and try to understand our perspective.
The problem here is an issue of perspective. I've also presented my position "multiple times, in multiple ways". It's just that it conflicts with the premise you describe here.
No, I am not trying to convert anyone since I don't have the ability or even the words to do so. I'm not trying to use my personal logic to come up with my own ideas to communicate my constructed theories to make any of you do what "I" want you to do.
Actually, that position I just described IS true "based on the language" I'm using, to use your phrasing. Again, what I've been sharing throughout this thread is focused directly on what God Himself has shared in the bible, not my personal opinions. They are not my words, but His as expressed by the Holy Spirit who guided the bible's human writers:
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2 Timothy 3:16
"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness"
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Sure, I flesh out the passages being shared a bit as I go along, and I'm also willing to present personal testimony as it relates to the scriptures. But all the credit for the core ideas being expressed in every post goes only to the Lord, not me. If I'm focused on "me" and what "I" want you to hear from whatever "I" personally think about life, the universe, and everything (but apart from God's word), I'm doing it wrong.
So how do I decide which verses to quote? Easy answer: Pretty much daily I read, study, meditate and try to live out what's in His word in general. Over time enough of the verses, commandments, statutes, principals and passages kinda "stick" with me (like for a lot of Christians who study it too) so that it is almost natural for situations in life to trigger a specific or general memory of what the Lord has to say about them.
If I don't remember the specifics, I know how to find in the bible exactly what popped into my head, and I am ALWAYS learning something new from scriptures, even from verses I've read several times. Take a look at what Jesus said about this phenomenon:
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John 14:26
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."
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In fact, I've noticed that it is because I enjoy digesting God's word so much in general that these next specific words (also stated by Jesus) prove themselves to be true over and over in my life during many, many situations when I speak to someone on the Lord's behalf:
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Matthew 10:19-20
"...do not worry about how or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who is speaking, but it is the Spirit of your Father who is speaking in you."
Luke 12:12
"For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say."
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That's why we seem to be talking past each other. It's all about perspective. Several people here are approaching the discussion as a debate against me. I'll continue to say, through the use of God's word, that you are instead contending with Him.