[acqq]

My response was always to your claim that "the possibility of eternal life in heaven was only offered by Christ" and all my responses were to demonstrate that it's not "only by Christ" but an older and very known concept. They weren't supposed to help you reconcile that fact with your favorite theology.

[philwelch]

I'm an atheist. I don't have a "favorite theology" but I understand some religions better than others, the original point of this discussion was a supposed inconsistency in one of them, and I find the subject interesting as an intellectual exercise. Now will you stop being needlessly confrontational?