(December 1, 2014 at 5:41 am)robvalue Wrote: I found this amazing book that will turn you into an atheist.
The key to avoid that is you must believe all the Bible, every bit.
This includes the parts that contradict one another. If Jesus is born before 4 BCE (Matthew) and after 6 CE (Luke) and yet was almost 50 years old at the time he started his ministry in 27 CE (John), well, that's just a miracle that shows you how powerful our Lord is. He's just all over the time stream, able to be different places at once and able to be contradictory things at once. Most apologists try to explain away the contradictions. I embrace them. They show off what an awesome god we serve.
This also includes the parts that make no sense. Ours is not to question the mind of the Lord. If the Lord needs to come down to earth to make himself his own human sacrifice as the only means to convince himself to forgive us all for a fact that an ancestor of ours had eaten a magic fruit, well, that's how it's done then.
This also includes the morally bankrupt parts of the Bible. If we're supposed to stone disobedient little children in the public square, then that's what we're supposed to do.
Unless this book is wrong.
"You don't need facts when you got Jesus." -Pastor Deacon Fred, Landover Baptist Church
™: True Christian is a Trademark of the Landover Baptist Church. I have no affiliation with this fine group of True Christians ™ because I can't afford their tithing requirements but would like to be. Maybe someday the Lord will bless me with enough riches that I am able to.
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™: True Christian is a Trademark of the Landover Baptist Church. I have no affiliation with this fine group of True Christians ™ because I can't afford their tithing requirements but would like to be. Maybe someday the Lord will bless me with enough riches that I am able to.
And for the lovers of Poe, here's your winking smiley:
