45 out of 78 Questions, only one with NOYB

Right here I cannot watch the video, so I just copied the questionnaire from description ... which is not giving all 78 questions.

1)

Is Anne Frank burning in hell?

Answer:

We do not quite know whether diary is real, so we do not even totally know her dispositions at last entry in it.

We also do not know (supposing diary was real, supposing she really meant herself what last entry in diary says about her) how much she stuck to it later.

We do not know when she died. If she did not die in camps, she has not come out in public to claim her identity, but there could be other reasons for that.

Even if she did die in the camps, that is not guarantee she had no chance of conversion.

A slip of paper in Hebrew letters (Hebrew or Yiddish, not her language, so by someone else) starts "God, when you COME BACK in Your Glory" ... words adressed by one raised as Jew (confer Hebrew letters) but became a Christian (we Christians believe God has become Man, has been walking visibly on Earth and will come back in His Glory).

So, she could have converted in camp.

2)

How about Mahatma Gandhi?

Answer:

Probably in Hell.

His anti-colonialism has contributed to the conflict now ongoing since 1948 between "India" and Pakistan (India really is the name of a continent or subcontinent of Asia, and Portuguese India belonged to it too, and was swamped by that state) and to the abolition of Portuguese India under his friend and successor Nehru.

His friend and successor Nehru has contributed to the ungodly and inhuman two child policy, to abortions and to sex selective abortions, and probably had Gandhijee's at least tacit approval.

In other words, if he's burning, I am not surprised.

3)

Is Fred Phelps in Heaven since he believed in the divinity of Jesus?

Answer:

I don't know what else he did.

4)

Should a killer who genuinely repents at the end of his life go to Heaven?

Answer:

Yes.

A killer who's repented is not a menace in Heaven.

However, this does not mean he must totally always and everywhere be spared death penalty. In some cases, he could be a threat if, after repenting, he was exposed to same temptations.

5)

Should a kind-hearted atheist go to Hell for all eternity?

Answer:

An atheist who is kind-hearted should with all kindness we Christians can muster be converted to Christianity and go to Heaven.

6)

Do kind-hearted religious people who just aren't Christian also deserve to burn?

Answer:

Depends.

Some do not deserve to burn and will be converted. Such was St Eustace (at least relatively speaking) before his conversion.

Some do and will burn.

Whether some do not even if remaining non-Christian as to explicitly held doctrine, for one thing, they would be few and for another we don't know if the case even exists.

St Gregory the Great prayed for Trajan, and some say Trajan was just temporarily relieved of Hell pains, others that he resurrected, repented and converted in his grave, and died as a Christian in answer to St Gregory's prayer.

7)

Would you be happy in heaven if someone you loved was in Hell?

Answer:

In Heaven one can not be unhappy.

And in Heaven one can know exactly why those who went to Hell went to Hell.

8)

If your child were dying, and I hope that never happens, would just pray for them or would you take them to a doctor?

Answer:

Usually both. Or if unambiguously dying so a doctor would be no help, send for the priest to get the child the last sacraments.

But I assumed you mean dying with some hope of not dying if given help.

9)

And if you'd do both, which one do you think has more of an impact?

Answer:

Usually both, on different levels.

Prayer per se counts more with the better efficient healer, but omitting going to the doctor, unless there was a reason (economic, illwill of medical team against independence of family), would count as sinful with God.

10)

Whose prayers does God answer?

Answer:

Those who are good, pray well and pray about things He knows are ultimately good.

In other words, if He doesn't answer with a yes, it may be that:

• one is evil, in the state of sin;
• one is praying with impatience or presumption or despair or with lack of devotion and reverence;
• one is praying about a thing which, if obtained, would not be good.

11)

And if it's ultimately His Will, why bother praying?

Answer:

Because that condition is one of the things He has revealed He wills.

12)

If you have cancer, what would help you more: Certain drugs, or prayer?

Answer:

See above. As with "dying" (but still saveable) child.

13)

If you had an amputated limb, would prayer ever bring it back?

Answer:

My own, probably not. Some holier man's, if God was giving him the grace to work a miracle.

14)

If you have an exam coming up, what would contribute more to a higher score: Prayer or more studying?

Answer:

You should not be praying for an undeserved high score.

I actually did (when it was too late to do more studying, note it!) and found oral translations (from Latin or Greek) easier (or professors more willing to help) than I feared.

Or perhaps my prayer was rather a submission in advance to a failure which did not come.

15)

If you prayed for me over YouTube right now, do you think I would know it?

Answer:

I don't know. I am not doing it while I am writing.

[I did stop writing though and said a short one - you check, here it is 13:52 and I have been writing for some time now.]

16)

What matters to God more: The quantity of people praying or the quality of their prayers?

Answer:

Both.

17)

If quantity matters, shouldn't the most popular team always win the Super Bowl?

Answer:

Are people praying over a Super Bowl team praying for the right thing?

18)

If quality matters, why do people you love sometimes die no matter what you do?

Answer:

See above, plus we all must die since Adam sinned.

19)

Is it possible that your prayers have no supernatural effect and only serve to make you feel better?

Answer:

If I pray that badly, yes.

20)

Would you ever admit it if that were true?

Answer:

I might and might try to pray better.

That does not mean feel less good while praying.

21)

Is there anything in your life that makes you doubt God's existence?

Answer:

No, but some of His will to give me a decent life on earth and salvation afterwards.

22)

How would your life change if you had serious doubts about God's existence?

Answer:

Probably do same things, except write about my doubts instead of about my certitudes.

If I did that might open some doors and I do not want THOSE doors opened.

It's OK if an atheist edits my texts on paper or plays my sheet music, it's not OK if I have to sell my soul for it first.

23)

Was Jesus white?

Answer:

If by white you mean Caucasian (as not Negroid, not Mongoloid, not Amerindian), yes.

If by white you mean European, possibly as much as some of the Arabs and Shefarad Jews we see now.

24)

Why does God seem more likely to answer the prayers of a talented athlete than a starving child overseas?

Answer:

Why do you think He does?

If athlete prays for success and the starving child for another day's food, God is often hearing both prayers.

25)

Why does God Seem to hate Africa?

Answer:

Does He? That is news to me.

26)

If a group of Africans swooped in to your community with the intention of converting you and your neighbors to their tribal faith, what would your reaction be?

Answer:

In Paris, that is not quite theoretical. I have met both Neo-Khemetists, Neo-Babylonians, and Pentecostals (kind of Christian, but a heretical and tribal version of it), and I have told them they were wrong and why I thought so.

If some have been annoying, I have sometimes acted with some degree of annoyance.

27)

Does God speak to you?

Answer:

NOYB.

28)

If God spoke to you and told you to kill someone, would you do it?

Answer:

I should. Not sure if I would.

Saul would have been better off if he had killed as many Amalekites as God told him : all.

29)

Is God always watching you?

Answer:

Yes.

30)

How about when you're on the toilet?

Answer:

He created my intestines (and yours).

31)

How do you respond when someone who's not a Christian tells you about their religious faith?

Answer:

If they do so politely, including when trying to convert me, I take notes on where they are wrong and politely tell them why.

32)

Do you listen and consider what they have to say or do you just ignore them because they don't believe what you believe?

Answer:

See above.

33)

What do you make of Muslims who think the Koran is the true holy book?

Answer:

What do they make of Hesiod, Joseph Smith and Numa Pompilius all also claiming revelations that come via one or more supernatural beings to each of these?

I would and do reject the claims of the Koran, precisely as I do with Book of Mormon, Theogony and the fortunately probably lost books of divination given possibly in Etruscan to Numa Pompilius.

34)

Are they wrong?

Answer:

I think I just told you.

35)

Have you read the Koran?

Answer:

Relevant parts. Surah V has "Jesus" denying "he" ever claimed divinity.

Mohammed wrote this or spoke the words later written down about 600 years after the events of Jesus' real life. Contradicting blatantly the canonical Gospels.

He had not got tradition from Christians to this effect, that is certain. He had not got it from Jews either, they deny Jesus was holy even as a man. We have no previously recorded tradition in between Jews and Christians on this matter, so Muhammed clearly either made it up "for peace" or got it from an angel whose real name was certainly not St Gabriel.

36)

Why do you dismiss them so easily?

Answer:

I think I have given sufficient reasons.

37)

Is homosexuality itself a sin?

Answer:

Homosexuality is kind of a rubber word.

Being momentarily attracted to someone of your own sex is not sinful if involuntary.

Indulging the feeling, even if not intending to act on it, is gravely sinful.

Acting on it in sodomitic or lesbian sex is very gravely sinful.

38)

Should gays and lesbians have the right to get married?

Answer:

Sure. A gay with a lesbian. And the other lesbian with the other gay.

If they want to. Sure they should at least have the right to.

Some might even find partners quite outside that community.

39)

Why would God make people gay and then punish them for being gay?

Answer:

Sobran is not being sent to Hell for being gay!

If you mean homosexual, see above. God never makes a man "that way" inescapably, and the circumstances that do (these days involved in school compulsion, homo networks among teachers, other teachers unwittingly acting out such agendas, or half wittedly while obeying directives they hope won't hurt too much) cannot be identified with God.

God never predestines anyone to evil.

40)

If God's already sending gay people to hell, why do you feel the need to persecute them here on Earth?

Answer:

If God is already sending unrepenting killers, thieves, slave hunters, drunkards to Hell, why should these categories also have a hard time on Earth?

Wait a second, in some cases they might be making a hard time for others who are trying to be better than they.

Less the case with drunkards and thieves than with slave hunters and killers, though.

41)

Why does God playing hide and seek with all of humanity?

Answer:

Because He has promised that those who seek will find.

42)

Do you believe Jesus is coming back to Earth during your lifetime?

Answer:

Possible.

43)

If you do, what do you say to the many generations of people who have been saying that for centuries?

Answer:

It has in fact not been said continuously for centuries. It has been said over more turbulent times dispersed over centuries.

One thing I might say is that modern politicians have much more power for evil than a man like Frederick II the Stauffer or even Nero.

Technologies and higher taxes feeding administrations, of which neither the technological nor administrational means even existed back then.

44)

Why is the story of Jesus' birth and life so similar to that of mythological beings well before his time?

[Not linking, due to a blasphemy.]

• Buddha. Similarities are mainly moral and carreer-related. Non-spectacular claims need non-spectacular evidence, and I'll accept the evidence for both of these. That doesn't mean I accept Buddha's umtimate claims.
  
  
• Krishna. It seems Zeitgeist has way overdone the parallels, by giving Krishna characteristics which never belonged to him either in Puranas or Mahabharata.
  
  Also, Christ's parents (mother and stepfather) "staying in Muturea" is probably apocryphical.
  
  Krishna has not claimed to be the Resurrection and Krishna did NOT either resurrect or ascend corporeally to Heaven. He was cremated and a poet dreamed of his soul descending and being discovered to be a god.
  
  
• Odysseus. Parallel actually agreed!
  
  God wanted Pagan Greeks to have some hint of how He would be dealing with those persecuting the Church Whose Bridegroom He is. So he made Ulysses handle Antinoos as He will be dealing with Antichrist and the False Prophet.
  
  Also, providentially, one of the Pagan cults rival to Christianity (and involved in its perecution) was that of Hadrian, who in his turn made himself ominous to those sensitive to parallel. He had declared "god" his lover boy Antinoüs. This will probably also say sth about Antichrist.
  
  Oh, parallels are in crew. I looked them up.
  
  Well, like with parallels in single moral traits or carreer moves, having to deal with similar people is a very non-extraordinary claim. If I say I am dealing with Pharisees, I don't have to prove I am Jesus, just that Pharisees are still Pharisees. That they would be so even now is not a very extraordinary claim on the part of a Christian.
  
  
• Romulus "becoming god" just disappears. Christ ascends to Heaven before astonished disciples. Romulus kills twin brother. Christ dies on the Cross.
  
  No, not very parallel, and neither are their types of birth.
  
  
• Dionysus' parallels are heavily overdone. December 25 was not a relevant date either in original Greek (or pre-Greek) version or in Roman adaptations.
  
  He was not considered Alpha and Omega. He was not considered Sin Bearer. At least not in main paganism. Orphicism is another question and prepared Roumanians to become Christians (I mean Dacians).
  
  
• Hercules shows every "parallel" trait in such a parodic way, that God certainly wanted to have had Pagans fall into that error before Christ, just so that when Christ came, they might say "oh, that is what it is like to descend to the Netherworld to free people" or "that is how it is like to wrestle with Thanatos!"
  
  The real events in his life only show he was a very strong man, not much more.
  
  
• Glycon? A parody of Christ, after He came. Most probably.
  
  
• Zarathustra. Most parallels are spurious, there is for instance no "Zoroastrian Eucharist".
  
  
• Attis. Like with Hercules God wanted Pagans to have some idea of what was to come, as in case of annual deaths and resurrections of vegetation gods. However, like with Hercules, there are parts that come out as clearly parodic if compared to Christ. December 25 is a spurious parallel. Attis cult is less concerned with virginity than with full castration, a very evil thing, despite words of Christ falsely taken to recommend it (these being figurative and not literal).
  
  
• Horus? Isis was not a virgin! Most other words said about Horus are simply stolen from the story of Christ and real mythological story of Horus is left out.

45)

Is it possible that religion may have less to do with what's true and more to do with the circumstances of where you were born?

Answer:

Conversions argue at least possibility of contrary exceptions.

An overall view is that sinful humanity tends to stick even to false heritage - but how much is due to not knowing of the alternative and how much is due to arguing oneself out of irksome duties of conversion (note, if Muslims felt any duty to convert to Christianity, some of them would be in really irksome positions - and some who are nevertheless do convert).