Request for Help

[Roast Beef]

I am English, an atheist and an evolutionist.Last night I dreamed I died and went to Hell which was so awful
that I immediately realised I need to seek Redemption and save my soul from eternal damnation.
I am hoping that someone here might be able to guide me on the path to being saved.

[Didymus Much]

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kingjbible.com

[Faith_Machine]

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I'm confused. How can you be an atheist if you acknowledge the need to be saved and the reality of Hell?

Regardless, I am eager to see you grow in the Lord. Have you begun reading the King James Bible?

[Nobar King]

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I hope this isn't just like the boy who cried wolf.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

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I am English, an atheist and an evolutionist.Last night I dreamed I died and went to Hell which was so awful
that I immediately realised I need to seek Redemption and save my soul from eternal damnation.
I am hoping that someone here might be able to guide me on the path to being saved.

Welcome to God's favourite forum! You'll find this a great place to fellowship with other like minded Christians.

Tell us about the dream. What perverted acts where being done unto you in Satan's cloistered realm (I hope it was nothing rectolinear)?

YIC

[Roast Beef]

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I'm confused. How can you be an atheist if you acknowledge the need to be saved and the reality of Hell?

The dream was so real I began to doubt if being a devoted atheist was such a good idea; once that seed of doubt was sown, I felt I could become a fully-fledged Believer, and be saved, provided I had the right guidance.
For instance, should I become a Catholic?
Or a Unitarian?
Today I passed a stand manned by two Jehovah Witnesses and I did wonder if I should stop and ask their advice, but a voice in my head said "No!"


Was that God speaking to me, do you think?

[Roast Beef]

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Welcome to God's favourite forum! You'll find this a great place to fellowship with other like minded Christians.

Tell us about the dream. What perverted acts where being done unto you in Satan's cloistered realm (I hope it was nothing rectolinear)?

YIC

Nothing was done to me, but I was expected to have carnal relations with a goat. Thankfully I awoke in time to save myself
from what seemed a most unsavoury experience.

[Roast Beef]

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Have you begun reading the King James Bible?

Is that the one without pictures?

[Roland]

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Is that the one without pictures?

You can find it here. The website even has the 1611 version should you care.

[Roast Beef]

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You can find it here. The website even has the 1611 version should you care.

Thank you.
I think that's the one I started to read - it was certainly old,
My grandfather's, I think.
I didn't get very far - probably somewhere in Exodus - before deciding God is not only obnoxious but also stupid, and so as to save myself the trouble of reading any more I decided to become an atheist.
All was going well until I had that dream (I can smell that goat even now. It had really evil eyes and kept turning its head to stare at me, which was embarrassing).


What must I do to repent for my unworthy thoughts regarding God and how can I grow to love him?

[Didymus Much]

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...What must I do to repent for my unworthy thoughts regarding God and how can I grow to love him?

How about reading the whole Bible? Even if you end up back in your atheist stance, you'll at least be able to discuss it from a standpoint of knowledge instead of your present ignorance.

The amount of people that say they know they disagree with the Bible but have never read it makes me .

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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... I can smell that goat even now...

You claim to be English, and yet you seem to be obsessed with goats. Are you sure you don't have Greek ancestry?

Frankly, if you are dreaming of Hell then you are not, and probably never have been, an atheist. Congratulations! Maybe you were some sort of Ortodox? But never mind! The next step on the long road to Eternal Salvation is easy.





YiC
JL-V

[Roast Beef]

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You claim to be English, and yet you seem to be obsessed with goats. Are you sure you don't have Greek ancestry?

Frankly, if you are dreaming of Hell then you are not, and probably never have been, an atheist. Congratulations! Maybe you were some sort of Ortodox? But never mind! The next step on the long road to Eternal Salvation is easy.





YiC
JL-V

But what if I start to think - just a few chapters in and just as I did before - that the Bible is about an obnoxious and stupid God?
How can I change my mind about that?
Would it be OK if I purchased a recording of someone else reading it (not an actor - I can't stand hearing actors reading) and perhaps fell asleep after a few minutes, as I probably would do, being an old man; I mean, perhaps the Holy Words would penetrate my subconscious and I'd sort of absorb them, without knowing it?

[Roland]

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[...]
Would it be OK if I purchased a recording of someone else reading it (not an actor - I can't stand hearing actors reading) and perhaps fell asleep after a few minutes, as I probably would do, being an old man; I mean, perhaps the Holy Words would penetrate my subconscious and I'd sort of absorb them, without knowing it?

Hello Roast,

Something similar has been tried before by a kid named Dexter with disastrous results. The poor kid couldn´t stop saying ¨omelette du fromage¨ after using this technique, even though everyone knows it is ¨omelette au fromage¨. You better stay clear from those shenanigans.

Kind regards,

Roland

[Roast Beef]

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You claim to be English, and yet you seem to be obsessed with goats. Are you sure you don't have Greek ancestry?

Pretty sure.
On a Greek holiday island I tried reading Greek but the letters are funny - did no one ever teach them the ABC?
Also, I think if I'd had any Greek blood in my veins I'd have liked moussaka and stuffed vine leaves and that awful retsina wine they serve.
Plus I don't like goats - which was why the dream of going to Hell was so very disturbing.