"By the way...which of you 'Museum Bashers' has actually spent time in the Creation Museum?"
I wouldn't go there if you paid me. I would, however, go there to see it torn down.
"I know, here goes your name calling, but I've spent time on your side of the fence. It's empty; can't fit all the pieces together."
Ah, yes. The old "I used to be a baby eating, puppy kicking, kitten boiling, self-worshiping atheist too" gambit.
"That's one of the reasons I asked, "how can what I see, and what I learned in college science actually make sense?""
You could start by paying attention in class. In biology everything is rather obvious when it's all laid out for you like they do.
"Since then I took the Bible and looked at what I can see in the world and what I was taught in class, and now it makes perfect sense from a Biblical perspective."
Pi is not 3, bats are not birds, goats do not have stripes from breeding in front of striped sticks, the Earth did not flood completely, languages did not become scrambled at a single point in history, insects do not have four legs, rabbits do not "chew the cud" and sprinkling pigeon blood on yourself will not cure leprosy.
That is the "science" of the Wholly Babble. That is the bullshit you're attempting to say "makes perfect sense" based on what you can observe about the world around you.
Either you have not, in fact, read your Babble or you have not observed very closely the wold around you. Probably both.
"I know what the threat I mentioned early is.....if the Bible is right, then we are accountable for the wrong we do; and that wrong is not set by courts, individuals, or me, but by a holy and powerful God."
If it's right. Which there's no reason to think it is.
"When we lie, steal, cheat, etc. we are condemned to an eternal punishment."
Which is unjust. No crime a human could commit in a finite lifetime deserves an infinite punishment. Any punishment that does not fit the crime is, by definition, unjust.
"I just thank God that He loved me (He loves you too) enough to take my punishment on Himself."
Whose fault is that? I didn't ask him to do that. I didn't expect him to do that. I wouldn't want him to do that. Again, punishing someone else in the place of the offender is not justice.
Aside from that, your god made the rules. There's absolutely no reason your omnipotent deity, ruler of all that is, could not have simply said "I forgive you". Even we poor, pitiful, corrupt and sinful humans can manage that one.
"If only I would confess my sin and accept His gift of forgiveness and accept His Spirit into mineself. He is my Lord."
It's not a "gift" you moron. Gifts do not come with strings attached or expectations to measure up to. Gifts are freely given with nothing asked in return.
If your god truly was benevolent and for some strange reason actually had to sacrifice himself, to himself, to appease himself, he'd have done it without all the fanfare and hoopla. Nobody would have known Jesus was god and he would have done it because it was the right thing to do, not to gain followers and praise.
