What beliefs would we consider reasonable for a self proclaimed Christian to hold?

[drfuzzy]

Yeah.  Same book.  Thousands of different denominations.  Get 5 preachers from the SAME denomination and ask them about a passage, and you'll get 5 conflicting responses.  Interesting, that.  You would think, if some deity wrote a book and wanted people to follow it, that it would be a lot less confusing.  And you would think that if a deity was actually inspiring it's mouthpieces on earth, the inspiration for a passage would be the same for every preacher.  But no - for thousands of years, what we get is "we have it right and those guys over there aren't REAL xtians".

Yes it is interesting that people have so many perspectives, but we can figure it out if we put forth the effort. Here is my perspective of the Bible:

(Old Testament | Ecclesiastes 12:13 - 14)

13 ¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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Her physical brain was not conscious during the operation, but her spirit saw everything that was happening during the operation. When she woke up she remembered everything her spirit had seen. That is how she was able to describe everything that happened. I still don't think you are understanding what I am saying here.

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"we can figure it out if we put forth the effort"  --  what the hell, are you 12 years old?  Have you STUDIED church history?  Yeah right.  2000+ years and apparently NOBODY has put forth enough effort to stop people from killing each other over whose interpretation of the "sacred texts" is most special to their imaginary friend.  What a pile of crap.

Here's my perspective of the wholly babble, you ignorant egotistical waste-of-oxygen troll:
Ewww.  Quoting from a book that promotes genocide, misogyny, rape, slavery, abortion, infanticide, theocracy, tribalism, magical thinking . . . eww.  
How DARE you?  God - LOL.   Your God doesn't exist.  And you are so craven and ignorant that you completely dodge my reasonable question by not answering it at all, but by quoting that reprehensible pile of crap book.

Quoting the wholly babble.  What an asshole.


HERE'S THE QUESTION TROLL, just in case you were too illiterate to understand it:  Why are there so many different "interpretations" of a book that was supposedly written by an omniscient deity who wants to get his message understood by humanity?  It wants us to understand, right?  Romans 14:11, right?  It's all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, and omnipresent, right?  So why can't it communicate?  Why does it allow humans to kill each other over their "interpretations" of its so-called message?  Why is it less capable at communication than the average 10-year-old?

bow the knee lol.  The god described in the bible is not worth a second's worship.  It is the most evil concept humankind has ever invented.