11:00 - The Bible says that God prepared hell for the devil and his demonic cohorts (Matthew 25:41), that He is "...not wishing for any [person] to perish but for all to come to repentance." (II Peter 3:9), and that He has done everything possible to save us from that terrible, terrible place. Yet in the end God will not violate or overrule the deliberate choice of those who consciously and willfully turn away from Him.
--Daryl E. Witmer of AIIA Institute

C.S.Lewis made several good points on Hell.
"I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. And yourself, in a dark hour, may will [a grumbling] mood, embrace it. Ye can repent and come out of it again. But there may come a day when you can do that no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood…"
--excerpted from The Problem of Pain and The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

12:43 - Here she seems to be arguing from the experiential/existential. C.S. Lewis does a good job arguing a case for God from our experience "Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex...If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
Another good analogy of Lewis on experience is about bread and toast during the war.

14:45 - A good question could have been 'Why is there murder in big cities?"

24:00 - It is interesting that this guy gets offended by you simply sharing a claim to truth with him (despite admitting to not know the truth himself) and then goes on to say that everyone is entitled to their own truth. Where does he think each individual devises his/her own truth from? People do not live in a vacuum. His worldview and his truth have been developed and forged trough the society and community in which he grew up and lives in. If he was truly seeking the truth he would be open and willing to listen to anyone who claims to have already found it.

25:00 - Your blindfold analogy is a good one. Blaise Pascal's view on humanity is very similar to your idea of blindfolded men running off a cliff. "Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human condition. It is absurd of us to rely on the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will not help us; we shall die alone. The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever.Let us ponder these things, and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that the only good thing in this life is the hope of another life. . .
We desire truth and find in ourselves nothing but uncertainty. We seek happiness and find only wretchedness and death. God alone is man's true good. . ."


26:11 - the girl's claims about relativistic truth were already discounted at 11:50 and again from an experiential point of view we know that truth doesn't work this way. Is gravity relative? Is the ground that you were all standing on relative? Would you ever fly in a plane piloted by someone who believes that the truth about gravity is relative?

Xanga, messed up my comment.

You defiantly had some good discussions. It was interesting to listen to.

Did you get consent from all parties prior to making the recording?

@LiveHisLove - 

Yeah... they all consented and the recorder was not hidden at all. It was in my hand in front of me the whole time. I'm not sure if the Atheist who butted in knew I was recording.

You make some good points about hell. Although since I believe in the absolute sovereignty of God even over the will of man, I have to confess that in some sense hell is for the sinner and God for some reason doesn't extend his grace to all people equally. So I couldn't agree with Mr Witmer. I'm not sure that 2 Peter 3:9 means that God does everything he can to make sure everyone is saved. That interpretation doesn't comport to many scriptures I've read or to my experience either.

The C.S. Lewis quotes are gold.

Thanks much for commenting... great thoughts. BTW.. your first post looks good.

Tim Keller has some good thoughts from his book "The Reason for God" available online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxup3OS5ZhQ

He mentions some of Dawkins' arguments in the video.