RE: A question about original sin.
July 21, 2011 at 12:51 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2011 at 12:52 am by Judas BentHer.)
(July 20, 2011 at 6:10 pm)C Rod Wrote: I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from Me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged Me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things (Isaiah 45:5-7 NIV) context please and disaster and calamity are translations also and that would just be judgement.
Ah, the "C" word. Funny how context is never used when Christians cite the Old Testament Leviticus as a reason to prevent gays from having lawful equal rights to straights. Or when any passage can be used as an excuse to oppress any one or any community or any faith, in a Fundy's sights. They simply cite a scriptural passage, point at their victim and say; it's not me! It's god's word.
However, even as an atheist I gotta say that if we're to believe there is such a thing as god then I'd think when god says it, I'd believe it. If I believed a god could speak.
RE: King James Version
Proverbs 16:4The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Lamentations 3:37-39
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Jeremiah 18:9-11
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Ezekiel 20:24-26
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Evil god!
Or, not.
Errant perfect supreme beings can be so confusing when they decide to write a book and then contradict themselves.
RE:King James Version
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Context! Right?
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
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