On Hell and Forgiveness

[Angrboda]

So in other words, you don't have anything to add and you're just jerking off as usual.  Carry on.

I am not saying that you are personally childish but that the point you are trying to make is both trivial and naive. And it appears motivated by a desire to win a debate by resorting to insults and arguments of convenience rather than engage in constructive dialog. Everyone knows that God is presented in many different and often puzzling ways throughout the biblical texts. If your point is that these old stories should be dismissed just because they are challenging then it doesn't show much respect for the greatest thinkers of the past. That just puts you in the same category as Robvalue, who seems to believe that his arrogant YouTube analyses remotely compare with the insights of Maimonides and Hillel the Elder.

Similarly, if all you get from reading two verses that appear to contradict is a reason to dismiss the entire canon then you truly have not taken the text seriously. It boggles my mind how shallow modern critics, such as infidels.org and those who somehow think they are clever, believe  the most educated scribes and scholars of the ancient world, those who compiled these stories, were simpletons. The thinkers of antiquity could not have been completely unaware of the apparent discrepancies within the texts they exhaustively studied and scrutinized. These are old, old stories reflecting a body of collective wisdom handed down over centuries. Their persistence testifies not simply to geo-political circumstances but to the profound insights about the human condition they contain, insights that speaks across generations and around the world. That is not because they are easy. They are difficult and convicting.

Since neither of those actually describes my point or what I was doing, they are nothing but straw men, and the charge that you were just jerking off remains. I neither insulted Steve, nor used an argument of convenience. Steve's position was undermined by the biblical text, so I pointed it out. If you have a problem with that and wish to read all sorts of things into my simply quoting two verses from the bible, sans any commentary, then knock yourself out. The rest of us will see it for what it is, a groundless personal attack which you couldn't justify on its merits and so are resorting to making bankrupt and false insinuations about me. Now if you don't have anything of substance to add to the conversation, you can take your personal attacks and kindly fuck off.