(December 3, 2011 at 12:00 am)Hoptoad Wrote: You can have some of mine if you like, I have plenty spare.
It was a warning of what was to come and has come. How would a small time preacher know that?
Do I live by all the teachings, no, I am not a preacher, I have not abandoned my family nor will I. I am just an ordinary bloke doing the best he can, living according to a philosophy he has found to work.
Huh? What are you yammering about? Have you forgotten what your original quote was?
(November 30, 2011 at 10:52 pm)Hoptoad Wrote: Let me give an example, Christ said love your fellow man, he didn't say except for, or only if.
That's a lot of people, all of them. It's a big concept I am sure you can see the problems with it. But when you start limiting that care that respect to only the groups and individuals you approve of, then you open the door to hating the ones you don't.
So that's what I do, I try to think like that, to live like that.
You are saying that you believe the words of Christ are true, and that's why you follow him. Now you say you don't follow ALL his teachings. So how do you choose which ones to follow and which not to follow?
The part I find most hilarious is that in the same breath you say 'I don't live by all the teachings' and then 'Living according to a philosophy he has found to work', even though you have JUST SAID that you don't! You don't live by that philosophy at all, you pick and choose the bits you like, same as literally every other theist does. Must try harder.
On the 'bringing a sword', I really hope you're not implying that making that statement is any kind of evidence that Christ could predict the future. Not many people cling to that particular quote as a prophecy. That would be utterly ridiculous.
Also, there's a couple of free will threads kicking around. Care to give an example of someone utilising free will?
