How not to start a conversation with a skeptic...I think

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"Excuse, me, God. Could you just tell me what this word should say? We're having some disagreement. In fact, someone just killed my family because of it. We apparently talk quite often, you and I, so it shouldn't be too much or a hardship for you to clear this up."

"I'm so fucking mysterious. Free will."

"Thanks mate."

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It's a shame God isn't capable of some sort of nice universal language that can't possibly be misunderstood.

That's why the new testament was written in Greek, it was the most commonly spoken language of the time, much like English is now. It's not that hard to search a Hebrew or Greek lexicon if you want to know what a word meant originally.

What you guys don't get with English is that words change in meaning over time...

But still not a nice universal language that never changes meaning and can't possibly be misunderstood. Even God has his limits, I guess. Unless he could do that, but he actually wants us to argue about what it means. Cut off each other's nobs and that.