(January 2, 2013 at 1:39 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Needless to say, no one is going to throw away their faith based on one verse they don't entirely understand--especially when the only condemning interpretation fails to involve any spiritual thought.
No one here expected you to. In the history of this site, I don't think anyone has ever been converted to the other side.
Quote:When Jesus says "now" has he ever really meant that instant as his 12 disciples would experience it? No, he means now, universally, in the spiritual sense. That's what makes Jesus different. He talks on another layer. If you ignore that layer, you miss everything.
We already know that you and your fellow sheep have interpreted it the way you see fit.
We intelligent people on the other hand, read what is written and interpret it according to the dictionary.
Regardless if you believe that your god told a man what to write in this particular passage of horse shit, the words are defined the same. One, because the man writing them could only write if he understood what your god was saying, and two, because your "omnipotent, all knowing" god would have to realize that we future readers of his ancient scripts would need to understand it.
You lose. Either god didn't write this or he is as impotent as a flaccid cock when it comes to controlling what his authors and future translators jot down.