RE: In the beginning....
April 27, 2018 at 3:26 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2018 at 3:27 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 27, 2018 at 12:42 am)Godscreated Wrote: you speak as if you believe and I know you do not so what you say has to be taken with a grain of salt.
I speak as if it happened in the fictional universe, just like SW fans discuss if the rebels killed innocent workers when they destroyed Death Star in "Return Of Jedi"
(April 27, 2018 at 12:42 am)Godscreated Wrote: Just how is it you see that God is lying.
Because they said it.
(April 27, 2018 at 12:42 am)Godscreated Wrote: the mustard seed is the smallest of seeds known to the Jews of that day.
Even first-century Palestinian farmers knew of a few other seeds that were smaller, such as the black orchid.
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"
