(September 24, 2011 at 7:30 am)lucent Wrote: It isn't accurate to say that I became a Christian on my own, as faith is a gift from God..however, in the sense that I investigated the various belief systems of this world to the fullest extent, and then some, then I will say yes, I came to it on my own. It was predicated on many years of revelation and the journey was experiential, with a lot of research mixed in. I even formally held gnostic beliefs about the demiurge. How I arrived at those views is a very interesting story, in itself.
Your post is loaded with assumptions, tired stereotypes, and your own blatant prejudices. If you want to ask a question that doesn't isn't punctuated with animosity, I'll clarify.
In the meantime, I'll ask you..how did you end up as a gnostic?
That label was my best fit.
Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black where I read white.
William Blake.
I noted, after reading a number of Bibles and Words, that I fell into what that quote describes.
I E. Eden. Christians call becoming as Gods a fall.
I had always found that strange and found later that Jews, the original writers of those scriptures did not think it a fall either but an elevation.
Strange how they do not read their scriptures literally yet Christians, usurpers of the Jewish, God started to, and reversed their interpretations. Idiocy that.
You say that faith is a gift from God.
I say that faith without facts is for fools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPAC_cGVn...re=related
You are a sheep and I am a goat so the animosity you will always see. Live with it or ignore me. Do not expect respect.
Are you so fearful and faithless that you would doubt this---
2 Peter 3:9 KJ
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
to the point of doing the immoral thing and ignoring this--------
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
And that you would expect God to ignore it as well, as this----
Psalm 49:7
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
and join you in your immoral quest to try to profit from the murder of his own son by accepting a ransom?
You would have God do the immoral thing just to save your sorry ass. How droll.
Above is a clear logic trail. Follow it and change your ways of calling evil good.
It is evil to try to profit from murder.
How do I know this as a fact?
Criminal logic. Take it from me, I know evil.
I was born with---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIjddye2JSA
and a delinquent attitude.
I thank God for that. So to speak.
Taming these is what gave me what I needed to push my apotheosis and develop the wisdom to recognize you lack of good moral thinking.
Seems there is nothing you can teach me, except how not to think.
Regards
DL
