(September 27, 2012 at 12:33 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote:(September 27, 2012 at 12:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: No you cannot. You are entitled to enquire if Tegh believes in such, but you are not entitled to take his words and twist them to suit your own ends. It's not just an honesty issue, it's plain common courtesy. You wouldn't appreciate having your words manipulated in such a way, would you?I agree, I was just trying to illustrate the point.
God's character is established throughout the Bible and it seems unfair to take an obscure verse and hypothesis something inconsistent with the rest of the biblical texts.
Critical scholars do not work to support Christianity (or undermine it). They work to get to the truth.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
