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I thought it was Sheol.  Not that it matters. And don't look to Dante for help unless you want a really unpopular answer.  (Hint: he addresses them in The Inferno, not in The Purgatorio or The Paradisio).

And here I thought this was going to be a thread on Object-Oriented Programming.

Ok, how about this. Can you play violent, immoral, un-Christian games while loving the Lord your God with all your soul, all your heart, all your mind, and all your strength? I don't think so. Diving into a world of hate, revenge, and sin cannot co-exist with the greatest commandment.

Garbage In, Garbage Out.

I still don't agree with Van, but I do admire his argument Sorry. Carry on...

I don't know the average age on this forum, Kidan, but that statement may have caused more confusion than not. You do realize that the kids graduating high school this year were born in 1986-1987. That means they've never known a world without the compact disk and may, for the life of them, have...

Wow, this thread really turned into something ugly. Vanaze, go ahead and believe what you believe. God will hold you accountable based on His Word and what you believe to be right and wrong. Regardless of whether babies go to heaven or hell, I think your conviction to stand by God as you see...

Can't we all just get along? Ok, so Mr. Bill got off on the wrong foot. He's apologized and appears to be quite sincere about it. As Christians it's our job to forgive him and move on. So let's do that. (Deep breath, Tek. Not seven times, but seventy times seven times. Please remember that...

I really have to side with LoJ on this one. The Middletown Bible Church stuff is one interpretation of those scriptures. For them to say that while those scriptures do not specifically mention infants, we can infer blah blah blah, yet to reject another denominational belief as "totally...

Now you've wandered into what most Catholics call "limbo." Here's some information on limbo from the Catholic perspective taken from http://www.dioceseoflincoln.org/purple/limbo/

If someone else wants to give the justification, I encourage them to do so. I need to head to work. For your first question, M~P, a Google search on "pray to saints" or "pray to Mary" will get you some of the Biblical references used to defend that the saints in heaven (including Mary) do hear...

OK, I'll try to bring my not-so-unique perspective to this since maybe I have a more balanced opinion. I was raised Roman Catholic and went to Catholic grade school and high school. After 2 years at a Catholic college (Notre Dame), I transferred to a Lutheran college (Concordia) and was soon...

What does Christian or non-Christian have to do with right and wrong? No one in Jerusalem was a Christian. They were all Jews. And exempting Pilate doesn't work. God specifically warned Pilate not to condemn Jesus using Pilate's wife as the messenger (Matt 27:19). That warning by God removes...

I don't know, Eon. I guess I just can't accept "He was doing his job" as a valid moral argument. Prostitutes are doing their jobs too, that doesn't make it right. Would Caesar have been angry at Pilate if he had not condemned Jesus, thus giving the Jews an excuse for a riot? Probably. Would that...

Didn't spread too quickly, though, I guess. 40 years later, Jericho was still in the dark. And going back to Pilate, Jango, I think God is a master of using evil to further His plan. Again, that doesn't exonerate the sinners from doing the sin. What if Pilate had done the right thing? Then...

We're sneaking dangerously close to a predestination discussion here ;) If not Pilate, then not Pharaoh in Exodus, either. For that matter, not Adam or Eve. When you make God responsible for the sin of man, you take away the responsibility of sin from man and make the whole point of Jesus moot.

Paranoid much?

So, then, what defines "blasphemy against the Spirit"? Would it be accurate to say that if I say something derogatory about the Holy Spirit then no matter what I do from that point forward I am doomed to hell? By the way, my question isn't really a debating question. I don't argue the validity...

On the point of anti-Semitism: The movie clearly does not condemn all Jews. If nothing else, it seems that all (OK, almost all) the women in the movie (all Jewish) were not supportive of Jesus' condemnation (yes, yes, there were a few women yelling and mocking as part of the crowd, but I think...

No sin is so great it can't be forgiven. For all we know, Caiphas may have had a death-bed conversion. God showed with Saul that even the most vile can become instruments of His will.