(June 26, 2017 at 12:28 pm)SteveII Wrote:(June 26, 2017 at 12:10 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: And the Holy Spirit apparently didn't control what was written in the bible. Exodus 22:18.
Again, how do you know that you are being led by god if belief is no guarantee that you are?
You are taking a command written to the Jewish people living under a theocracy thousands of years ago and trying to apply it to people that it was not directed toward not in the setting that it was written in.
One way of knowing that you are NOT led by God is if the action is contrary to the teachings found in the NT. Can you think of any historical atrocity that would not have been avoided if that were followed?
Well, if we turned the other cheek at the battle of Hastings, we'd all be Muslim right now, so...
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
