(July 2, 2018 at 7:42 pm)Kit Wrote:(July 2, 2018 at 7:38 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: That I can understand. There is great hypocrisy within the church right now. The church has a tendency to persecute and then cry that they are being persecuted. We can go on and on about what's been committed in God's name in history. It isn't pretty. Not to mention the psychological manipulation. And these things must be spoken out against, from both within and from out.
This is basically how I view it:
People can read a J.K. Rowling novel and logically view Voldermort as the bad guy. The same people can read the bible and ill-logically view god as the good guy. Reading comprehension skills and logic become skewed all of a sudden, because "god".
Very true. And for many people it's not even 'because god', but 'because the Bible is INNERANT'.
So now, we have people trying to defend things that they normally wouldn't defend, like God commanding Saul to slaughter the Amalekites down to the babies, God requiring the daughter of the high priest to be burned if caught in prostitution, etc. because they are afraid of what will happen to them if they don't read that literally, even though Jesus in the New Testament is absolutely -nothing- like the deity described earlier. Honestly when we get to that point, we're worshiping a book, and not Jesus.
