(July 16, 2018 at 1:39 am)Kit Wrote: Only for the extra personality that exists in his mind.
It's really simple, you see, any verse that reads or sounds inconvenient MUST mean something else. We just need to get the right thesaurus, dictionary, translation, spin, weasel words or non sequiturs and soon enough all is well in Christendom again.
All 70,000+ schisms, denoms, unaffiliateds, sects, cults, spin offs and wholly disowned subsidiaries are then safe to continue to peddle their 69,999+ heresies without those pesky atheists queering the debate with their annoying questions.
Why, some of them can even turn ADULTERY into a SACRAMENT !!!! And as long as it ain't an atheist promoting it, no problem.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.