(August 30, 2015 at 9:27 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, from what I've been reading that Shoel place isn't exactly the same as the brand spanking new Jesus torture chamber. Of course the bible can never be consistent about anything one page to the next.Isn't it odd that the NT is supposed to be the dispensation of grace and mercy, yet while in the OT you weren't responsible for anybody's sin but your own. Under grace, we have to pay for the sin of a cat we never saw.
From my reading, it seems a lot more like god smite you and you dead in the OT.
This is love?
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
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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.