(June 26, 2017 at 12:28 pm)SteveII Wrote:So if god lied to the Jews, making them believe there are witches, I should brush it off because he wasn't talking to me. Or maybe you think the god of the oT is not the god of the NT.(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?
A man came to Jesus asking healing for his sick slave. Rather than upbraiding the man for being a slave owner, Jesus praised him as having mire faith than he had ever seen. In the 19th century 120 pastors surveyed agreed unanimously there is nothing in the bible that speaks against slavery.
But many atrocities could have been avoided if people followed the precepts of Ma'at or Iwa Pele or the Instructions of Ptah or the Emerald Tablets of Thoth or...
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.