(July 5, 2016 at 8:02 am)ignoramus Wrote:Quote:Section 1: The Bible
Quote: We believe the Bible, comprised of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God (Matthew 5:18; 2 Timothy 3:16-17). In faith we hold the Bible to be inerrant in the original writings, God-breathed, and the complete and final authority for faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:16-17). While still using the individual writing styles of the human authors, the Holy Spirit perfectly guided them to ensure they wrote precisely what He wanted written, without error or omission (2 Peter 1:21).
WTF! Is there even such a thing as a moderate religious person? Or are they all cooking on one burner?
It sounds like a competition for how many fallacies can you squeeze in in one sentence!
Seriously, I'm trying to be open minded and see things from their perspective, and this is where google takes me! Fuck me! Straight in the deep end!
So basically, they believe the claim to be true because the evidence that the claim is true is evidenced by the claim! Sounds legit!
Why did God need to use the writing styles of somebody else? Doesn't that make him less than perfect?
Shit, I'm using logic again... Bad Bad boy!
How many 'believers' are even going to get close to meeting any kind of reasonable level of fealty in regards to that statement ??
And if a 'reasonable' level of fealty to that is the standard for being deemed to have sincerely held religious beliefs for purposes of participating in litigation in the nation's courts, I'm thinking this is going to become a very interesting situation.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.