RE: Hi, I'm a Christian
August 28, 2012 at 2:48 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 2:48 am by greneknight.)
(August 28, 2012 at 1:27 am)whateverist Wrote: Hello and welcome.
May I ask just how old you are? You strike me as older somehow.
Regardless I'd be interested in your ideas about the bible. How important is it to your faith? As someone who is primarily agnostic but a de facto atheist, I'm always perplexed by the way Christians here in the US profess total faith in every word of it.
I have no problem with your decision to honor your belief in God in the absence of evidence. I can imagine doing the same if my beliefs/intuitions/feelings were different. But I don't understand the fixation on the bible. Your thoughts?
Hello and thanks!
I strike lots of people online as being older. I'd like to think I don't write like a teenager and I am more mature and coherent in my arguments. In Christian Forums, I was accused of being a liar and a troll which prompted me to take a holy vow that I was telling the truth and that led a lot of people to hate me because they say you can't take vows without sinning or some such fundamentalist rubbish. But I'm closer to 14 since I was born on 17 December and it's already end of August.
I can understand their fixation on the Bible. The Reader always says "This is the word of the Lord" after each reading and we say "Thanks be to God". So they think the "word of the Lord" must be perfect or he can't be God. So they don't read contextually and take into account the time it was written when folks knew less about everything.
