(October 20, 2015 at 9:46 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(October 20, 2015 at 9:36 pm)Godschild Wrote: I've not started many threads and the ones I have, haven't been for a lot of comments. The reason I do not start threads that will be conversation pieces is because most atheist here do not want to have intelligent conversation about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit or the Bible, instead they want to insult and derail such conversations. I find most atheist do not know enough about the Bible to have those kinds of conversations, this is not intended as demeaning, it's just fact. They rely on Google or whatever to get as little info as they can to make comments. Using a verse or two for these kinds of conversations is inappropriate for these types of conversations. They also use what others say as fact whether they get it from the forum or the net, they do not know enough about scriptures to form their own opinions, believe me I've tried to get original ideas from them. Again I'm not saying any of this as demeaning, it's what I've observed over the last five years. So I would rather join in on threads where I find interest.
GC
Except those of us who were Southern Baptists before becoming atheists, and studied the Bible intensely throughout their upbringing as a fundamentalist evangelical Christian.
Or is it that we lose our ability to know the Bible, once we decide that the Jesus story isn't real and that the Old Testament is incompatible with a genuine understanding of the laws of nature?
God created the laws they are His to circumvent. You know about the Bible, I know from our discussions, what you haven't done is be completely honest in the way you deal with it. Now before anyone gets upset I not saying you're a dishonest person, just that you haven't yet shown you're open or care about the right teachings of the Bible.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
