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Expert: Hannah - 9/6/2008
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QUESTION: The ultimate goal of Christianity is to go to heaven. How about if you do not want to go to heaven, do you still have to follow Christianity? There are my religion out there, their ultimate is usually to give you freedom from suffering. How about if you do not care for about suffering, do you still have to follow a religion or do you still have to adopt one?
ANSWER: I'm not quite sure I understand your question. No one HAS to adopt one, unless they want the blessings rewarded by it. But...I'm just...I don't quite understand what you're asking. Could you perhaps clarify a bit?
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QUESTION: What I mean is that religion give us certain types of blessings. However, I don't want that type of blessings, do I have to adopt one?
Anyway, How do we know if the blessing rewarded by it is factual and true anyway? In addition, my country does not have a religion, can I received the type of blessings rewarded by religion without adopting a religion?
Lastly,
Does religion offer a way for you to beat or handle someone who is relentless and pure evil that he does not believe in any religion and he thinks he could even defeat a God, which is not possible, but he thinks he could? How do overcome someone who thinks he could defeat a God, and overcome your religion, and could completely wipe you out of the face of this earth and possibly hurts you in anyway unimaginable because he could defeat you and nothing you could do to save to save yourself?
ANSWER: If you don't want the blessings, then there's really nothing that anyone can do to make you have one, right?
How do you know? You'd know. I know. It's a very personal revelation that I've experienced. I can't give it to you. As for being rewarded the blessings without religion, that depends on who you ask. In my religion, all will receive some of the blessings, but not all of them.
Religion offers a way to win in your own mind. And no one can defeat God, you're correct, so in the end, whose going to win? God, right. So it doesn't matter if they could hurt you. The worst they could do would be kill you, right?
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QUESTION: Are you sure no one can defeat God? Could it be possible? What special benefits does religion offer and lastly in ask the expert, it states that the information is not something you should follow completely or trust completely. What is the relevant and accuracy of your information?
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Yes I'm sure no one can defeat God. It's in the definition of God. Religion offers me everything. I would not want to live without the knowledge that I have. It offers me so many things that I want so much. I want to have this opportunity and these blessings and these standards. They're everything to me.
I'm a Mormon. That's all I can say. It's accurate and relevant to my beliefs.
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