(June 14, 2017 at 12:34 pm)Drich Wrote: Let's say you believe God trades good deed for answering prayers. you do a few good deeds and ask god for a car and boom you get a car. now in minds eye this is how God works.
Said the used car salesman.
(June 14, 2017 at 12:34 pm)Drich Wrote: Or perhaps it is you who does not understand God is not the only one in a position to 'answer prayers.'
Who else answers prayers? Gandalf?
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"
