RE: Without the Shedding of Blood There is No Remission of Sin
April 24, 2017 at 7:53 am
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2017 at 7:55 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 22, 2017 at 4:09 pm)Lek Wrote: You're just applying your own logic to how you believe God should act and that you don't believe in him.
Let's face it, Lek, it's not just Rhondazvous' "logic" - as you call it - but anyone who has any sense of human decency sees your god as evil, because any normal person sees YHWH's deeds as truly abhorrent attributes. God from the bible is described as being jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal; a pyromaniac...
Now, Jesus was all that too because in many places he equated himself to YHWH and never apologized for crimes in OT. Not just that, but Jesus was an idiot and like his worshipers (Christians) cherry-picked Bible to support a tenuous arguments like when he used it to justify his sloppy sanitary habits. If Jesus were truly the son of an omniscient God, he would have known to tell people to wash their hands before they eat. He could have informed them about germs millennia before science figured it out.
So maybe you don't have a problem worshiping an evil idiot but don't act like you can't understand when other people do have that problem.
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"
