(July 27, 2014 at 4:55 pm)Blackout Wrote:Quote:Read.I can read. And because I can read I can note some verses can't be interpreted differently than the grammatical text. Saying 'You shall kill X' can't be interpreted as meaning another thing
Quote:So what? If God wants some ambiguity to get us thinking about it, that's his business. You atheists criticize us for being mindless sheep in one breath, then note that we think about things and come to different conclusions in the next.If everybody gets to different conclusions, that's not a religion, a religion is supposed to have a unified set of beliefs and coherence between it's followers.
One would also think that God would want people to get their shit together on basic beliefs like the afterlife. Yet there are so many different interpretations of how the afterlife works in Christianity that it's clear that there is no divine inspiration.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
