We're not dust yet. There is no reason why our eventual death and non-existence should preclude us finding meaning in our present existence.

What are you doing, citing verses without understanding them in their context, if not “living your truth”?

Exegesis.

I do understand the context of Jesus' verses. He was very literal on the existence of Hell.

Matthew 8:8-13

[8] But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. [9] For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” [10] When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. [11] I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, [12] while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” [13] And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.

People would just come up with a scientific explanation for that immortal dog, if they hadn't locked it away in the middle of nowhere already

You're misquoting me. I think if you read my comment you would find it easier to understand.

I'm going to congratulate you. It's taken me several replies before realising that you're a troll - you have gotten further than most.

Kudos.

Literally... just read the comment. It does not say what you just said it does...

Do you often assume people are out to get you instead of double checking if your assumption was correct?

Okay, I'll bait. What's the context of this text? Or in other words: what's Jesus speaking about?

He is saying that many gentiles will come to know God and get into heaven, while those who reject Him will be sent to hell.

Why delay the inevitable

You said the earth being created old holds more water but it in fact does not.

The idea that the earth was created 5 minutes ago with our entire convo and indeed your entire life being an artifact of its creation should be manifestly absurd to you as you remember differently. This doesn't get more reasonable if you push it back to 10 minutes ago, 10 years ago, or even 6000 years ago.

You should be able to see the continuity of the wrongness as the idea is carried backwards in time

Fixed:

The only winning move is not to play.

locked it away in the middle of nowhere already

Why would they do that lol

People would be in awe of this creature. It's speaking the perfect word of god, understandable to all. It cannot be killed and clearly defies all scientific understanding of our modern age. (This thing would pre-date the birth of true science though and more than likely prevent science even coming to be - there would be no need of science or any kind of human progress if we had an indisputable communication channel with god such as this)

I can't help but chuckle at the puny god that you seem to believe in though. God - if it exists and I genuinely believe that question is unanswerable - would be an entity outside time and space way beyond the tiniest comprehension of any human. It would have absolute power over every aspect of the universe. Protecting a dog from any number of humans with any type of weaponry would be such a trivial task for such a being. If the dog didn't want to be moved, it wouldn't move. If it wanted to pass through a wall it would pass though like a red hot ball bearing through butter.

No, you're reformulating the verse. I'm asking for context. What was the discussion about?

Why not? It's coming anyway, no need to hurry it along. There are things to do while you wait.

He was talking to a centurion and about the salvation of the gentiles who come to The Messiah and damnation of Jews who reject Him.

God is beyond absurd things such as leaving behind dogs. Look at the sky at night if there's no light pollution. There you can see a glimpse of God's glory and power

yeah well when you're ready to join us in the 21st century, we'll be here waiting. until then have fun with your stone age incomprehension of the heavens and self-aggrandizing tales of fabulous rewards after death.

Like think about how you can die at any moment

According to the first page of my search the Cambridge, Merriam Webster, Dictionary.com, Collins dictionaries all imply conversion needs also adopting a new belief/opinion/religion.

I feel it's a commonly propagated lie within certain religions that atheism is a belief, which of course it's not (it's the lack of belief, like most people have about fairies, flat Earth or the Mayan end of the world). I don't know if your mention of this statement is that you agree or not, but if you do - how do you arrive at the position that questioning is being the same as (lexical) conversion?

I get that a large part of Abrahamitic religions in particular is to obey and not question, as well as theism being necessary to be accepted in the religion (and not a heretic); is it that the questioning positions you outside of the religion and thus deconverts? Is that how you arrive at the "change"?

I apologise for the clumsy phrasing, but if we're reading the same text and coming to different conclusions, I must assume we're using words differently and would need to backtrack to find our last point of common understanding.