RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 27, 2018 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2018 at 6:05 pm by Banned.)
(January 27, 2018 at 10:24 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: So, you started with a belief in god first, and then when you discovered the Bible, you felt that it fit nicely with the belief you already had. Do you think if you had found a Koran, you would have become a Muslim instead? If your reason for believing the Bible is true is because first you believed in god, and then you read a book that affirmed your beliefs, isn’t that simply confirmation bias? Couldn’t I say that I always believed in Wizards, and then I discovered Harry Potter, therefore Harry Potter is true? Would that be a rational reason for me to believe in the Harry Potter story? What reason is there for someone like me, who’s never had a personal revelation the way you did, to believe a word of the Bible?
The Bible states that everyone is given a measure of faith in the first place. It is the means by which people are able to recognize love and then make the choice whether to follow its promptings or to betray it.
To betray what you know is innocent and loving is sin.
That is why parenthood is one of the most important values to the government of heaven.
Pure love has very succinct boundaries, it is not open to philosophical reasoning and debate, and every human being has the capacity to figure it out.