(June 1, 2021 at 9:27 am)johndoe122931 Wrote:(June 1, 2021 at 8:19 am)brewer Wrote: The denomination was Evangelical Lutheran.Thank you for giving us your story I greatly appreciate it.
Illogical claims: The silly ones were mostly the magical ones, creating everything in 7 days, talking snakes, killing bears, possessed pigs, living hundreds of years, feeding thousands, flooding worlds, parting seas, food falling out of the sky, ....... the list is long. The disturbing ones were eternal punishment, the god wars, exclusion, entitled judgement.
The straw was when I asked the pastor for concrete evidence to justify the belief and his response was 'just believe because I/we/the bible tells you to', with the added implication of 'no heaven for you'. In other words no evidence. You don't happen to have any concrete evidence do you?
My family fought it for a while but we eventually reached an agreement.
I am curious as to what you mean by the god wars and exclusion?
LOL, I like the question you pose to me for evidence, but my reason here is not to debate nor evangelize. I am sure you have heard it all so no point really for me to put in my own 2 cents on this subject.
I am happy to hear you have made amends with your family. I hate to hear families broken apart based on whether or not you believe in God.
Thank you again so much for sharing with us your story!
Genocide and murder is/was committed in the name of god. Christianity is very exclusionary if you don't believe.
I said agreement, not amend, there is a difference.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.