(April 21, 2016 at 9:01 am)SteveII Wrote: ]Again, you cry bad hermeneutics, but do not show how the context in 1 Corinthians invalidates my use of it to show that god deplores wisdom when it doesn’t glorify him.
first, the 1 Cor verse has nothing to do with what you are talking about and your insistence not to use the context to find the meaning is confusing at the least.
2 Samuel 24: You are basically correct in your facts. The sin was not the counting, it was the condition of David's heart (the leader of God's chosen people) and David knew it as soon as he did it. Was the glory properly Gods?
I am glad you can see that the passage in 2 Samuel does show god’s violent response when he isn’t getting all the glory. But why was it a sin for David to count the number of fighting men at his disposal? And why would god punish David by killing thousands of people? Do you really want to defend this?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.