Sin = A way to control people via guilt-trip.
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What Exactly Are Sins?
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Sin = A way to control people via guilt-trip.
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Especially when you make fundamental parts of Human nature sins. The urge to have sex being a prime example. Though the best is probably thought crime, because you literally can't control your thoughts.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html (April 27, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(April 27, 2015 at 1:43 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Especially when you make fundamental parts of Human nature sins. The urge to have sex being a prime example. Though the best is probably thought crime, because you literally can't control your thoughts. What about married homosexual sex?
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"What about married paedophile/necrophile/zoophile sex" in 3... 2... 1...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
The only thing wrong with sex is bible thumpers attaching their guilt about it to their judgment of others.
RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 2:36 pm by Mudhammam.)
I'm still trying to figure out where exactly sincere belief and the labeling of unbelief as "sin" meet.
"I really believe because to be in doubt is sinful" is not the same as "I really believe because I am convinced it is true based on..." One cannot have it both ways: On the one hand advocating their religion as reasonable and supported by evidence and on the other hand condemning any and all doubt as equal to dishonesty. Since most apologists do pretend their faith is reasonable, they must have not gotten the memo that unbelief is tantamount to moral depravity, which is about as unreasonable as a belief can be.
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RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 2:41 pm by Nope.)
(April 27, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(April 27, 2015 at 7:22 am)Nope Wrote: Are you saying that unbelief is one among many sins or that it is the only sin?Unbelief IS sin. In order for that story to make sense, I would have to know more about the person handing me poison. Have they lied to me in the past? Is there a legitimate reason for them to hand me the poison? Does this poison look like the soda I just sat down? If the person handing out poison supposed to be god then he/she would have to be invisible and the warning would have to come in the guise of a very old manuscript that has been translated repeatedly so that I am not certain what the original message actually was. (April 27, 2015 at 2:33 pm)Nestor Wrote: I'm still trying to figure out where exactly sincere belief and the labeling of unbelief as "sin" meet. Most Christians that I know do not view doubt as sinful so I am a little confused by the definition on this thread. A question for theists, if unbelief is sin does that mean that a Christian who believes in Jesus won't sin? RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 27, 2015 at 2:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 2:54 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(April 27, 2015 at 2:09 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(April 27, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Sex is only wrong outside of marriage. Two men cannot be married... Marriage is a "union" or "fusion". A nut a bolt goes together, two bolts do not. Adam was created both male and female, the female side was removed and put into Eve, therefore the male+female = 1 unit. Quote:Genesis 2Marriage was instituted between a man and woman for the purpose of having children (legally). Homosexuals cannot produce children and therefore shouldn't be having sex, and subsequently shouldn't be getting married. ALL perversion is wrong, for example a lie is a perversion of the truth, adultery is a legal act performed outside of marriage. Likewise homosexual marriage is a perversion of marriage between a man and woman. (April 27, 2015 at 2:36 pm)Nope Wrote: A question for theists, if unbelief is sin does that mean that a Christian who believes in Jesus won't sin? Because it is no longer sin if it's a Christian, it is iniquity. Iniquity, basically means that a person knows what he's doing is wrong but does it anyhow, it's premeditated, which is worse. |
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