Drich Wrote:'rules' (how ever foolish) are created for one purpose. To alter the behavior of a given people.

If there was a 'rule' it is because there was also a habitual problem with people doing whatever 'stupid' thing you want to make fun of now.

God did not create these rules just because. He created them because at that time in that culture the rules He passed down stemmed off a societal problem.

It doesn't matter why god made them. It's the fact that they're ridiculous that's the problem. Sure, rape may very well have been a problem, but does buying the victim for fifty shekels of silver sound like a solution an omniscient deity would propose?

(September 9, 2013 at 3:01 pm)Rationalman Wrote: Yo drich, do you follow the ten commandments?

Nope, not as a means to righteousness.

Quote:Cause they are in the old testament. If you follow the ten commandments but nothing else from the old testament, that makes you a huge hypocrite. You either believe all of it, or you believe none of it. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite for cherry picking the things you like

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Maybe there is alittle more to the Law than what you currently understand.

As I told missie in the book above:
The Law can be divided into Two Parts. The "thou shalts" and the atonement one can offer when one falls short of a 'Thou shalt."

Christ is a permenant method of 'atonement.' for falling short of the list of Thou shalts.

when one accepts Christ's atonement, his/her Righteousness/morality is no longer bound to adhearing to the law. It is found in Christ's gift.

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(September 9, 2013 at 3:08 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: It actually speaks to the fact that Drich is more moral than his god; he rejects the parts of the Bible he knows shouldn't be followed nowadays for fear of legal prosecution, but he holds to the parts that make him warm and fuzzy inside. (But I doubt Drich is fuzzy on the outside.)

Uh, no. Just ask any of the old timers. I approve of and enjoy how off putting things like OT slavery, and smashing babies against the rocks are for you guys to try and reconcile. I by nature am a hell fire and brimestoner, it's just the bible does not teach that as most of you understand it.

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(September 9, 2013 at 3:58 pm)tokutter Wrote:

(September 9, 2013 at 1:26 pm)Drich Wrote: You do understand that the bible is a book that represents two separate religions correct?

You also understand that the passages you are looking at have nothing to do with Christianity correct?

And yet somehow....someway.....they made it into the christian bible put together by...christians.

You christian need a new version NIV redacted.......black out all the stuff you dont use anymore.

It will end up looking like a pile of declassifed NSA files......


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Its all there so 'we' would be able to identify sin, and subsequently repent of it.

Quote:What if you knew with out doubt, that God was real and full filled the promises He made in the bible after you did what He asked?

Piss-poor chance of that happening.

Quote:Romans 6

Oh, yeah...the letter allegedly written by this character "saul/paul" who never met your godboy but only had a hallucination. Very convincing, dickhead.

(September 9, 2013 at 4:00 pm)Faith No More Wrote:

Drich Wrote:'rules' (how ever foolish) are created for one purpose. To alter the behavior of a given people.

If there was a 'rule' it is because there was also a habitual problem with people doing whatever 'stupid' thing you want to make fun of now.

God did not create these rules just because. He created them because at that time in that culture the rules He passed down stemmed off a societal problem.

It doesn't matter why god made them. It's the fact that they're ridiculous that's the problem. Sure, rape may very well have been a problem, but does buying the victim for fifty shekels of silver sound like a solution an omniscient deity would propose?

Do you have any idea of what 50 shekels amounted to? no one knows for sure but it was a king's ransom for sure. (Christ was sold out for only 30 shekels. 1500 years later) With that same 30 Judas' 'resting place' was purchased.

The 80 shekels was a deterrent. and if one could not pay he would have been sold into slavery till he could pay off his debt.

Without proper context, I agree it seems like a pittance. In context it is something to be feared.

I stand corrected. Drich, you're a monster. I'm glad the law is on our side.

(September 9, 2013 at 4:22 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: I stand corrected. Drich, you're a monster. I'm glad the law is on our side.

Law be damned. Be Glad God doesn't want us hunting atheists down.
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Well that's very telling of what you think of people that aren't willing to put faith in something you can't possibly prove to exist. You're talking like a sociopath, and I hope you receive the help you need someday: a lobotomy.

(September 9, 2013 at 4:22 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: I stand corrected. Drich, you're a monster.

No, just a minion. His perverse loyalty to the 'real' monster, though, is troublesome.

(September 9, 2013 at 4:31 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Well that's very telling of what you think of people that aren't willing to put faith in something you can't possibly prove to exist. You're talking like a sociopath, and I hope you receive the help you need someday: a lobotomy.

Just having some fun.. Most of you go the otherway and say something about flying planes into buildings.

to each his own.

There is no power in that "monster", but these minions are the ones giving power to this false idea; they are the embodiment of this backwards fringe belief. I'm going to help Deist Paladin convert their children to free thinkers.

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(September 9, 2013 at 4:34 pm)Drich Wrote:

(September 9, 2013 at 4:31 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Well that's very telling of what you think of people that aren't willing to put faith in something you can't possibly prove to exist. You're talking like a sociopath, and I hope you receive the help you need someday: a lobotomy.

Just having some fun.. Most of you go the otherway and say something about flying planes into buildings.

to each his own.

Holy fuck. "Most of you"? I hate to break it to you, but those holy ass lickers belong to you and your ilk, seeing how you all blindly follow centuries-old texts. The only difference is that some extremists are willing to operate outside the law. Do you as well?