(November 20, 2018 at 10:00 pm)Everena Wrote:Unless you are a Bible believer, your answers are not relevant to the Biblical issues I am addressing.(November 20, 2018 at 9:39 pm)Gwaithmir Wrote: Really? Do you believe that people can rise from the dead? Do you believe that the earth is flat? Do you believe in talking animals? Do you believe that slavery is a noble enterprise? Do you believe that boys' genitals should be ritually mutilated? Do you believe that witches and non-believers should be stoned to death?
I'm going to take a shot at this one too. Yes, people are eternal beings with souls, no the earth is not flat, talking animals is a metaphor and probably one you should think about for a really really long time. No one thinks slavery is a noble enterprise, but we cannot go back in time and change what people were doing then, now can we? I would leave the boys genitals thing up to boys to decide. And only the really annoying ones (kidding) No.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)