(March 3, 2016 at 4:38 pm)Lek Wrote: And by the way, I'm not a liberal christian.
And by the way I didn't say you were liberal I just compared you to the liberal by your own interpretation of the Bible, like liberals do.
(March 3, 2016 at 4:38 pm)Lek Wrote: Thanks for telling me how a christian should believe and interpret the bible.
If I was telling you how to interpret the bible I would tell you it's total nonsense, but you are interpreting the bible the way you want to and not how your religion tells you and when you start talking about how other gods, like Allah, may also be true gods then it's your own personal Christianity.
And when you pick and choose what you like and dislike from the Bible means you're bringing your own born in morality and morality from the secular society, like tolerance toward other religions or let's say tolerance toward adulteress, gays and what not meaning it's less actual Christianity and more secular culture and philosophy.
(March 3, 2016 at 4:38 pm)Lek Wrote: I view a "literal" interpretation as interpreting the bible as it was meant to be interpreted.If that was true you wouldn't be saying "I believe Islam is a step toward finding God." because we all know the 1st commandment, don't we? - and we know what happened in the Bible to those worshiping other Gods like Baal or Golden Calf.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
