RE: Without citing the bible, what marks the bible as the one book with God's message?
January 5, 2013 at 5:43 am
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2013 at 5:59 am by Whateverist.)
Well, you surprise me with your willingness to allow that a Christian need not be in touch with the bible. I wonder if you would go even further to allow that a good novel, poem or holy book from another religious system which inspires a person to have more fellow feeling and to act on it in the way which would have pleased Jesus in the parable you shared would also be a Christian and 'saved' in the Christian sense. So many of the Christians who come here to save us seem to feel it is necessary to embrace the bible and to endeavor to follow it in every detail.
Have you ever considered that judgement, reward and punishment are all instantaneous and fluid. Goodness is its own reward and treachery is a kind of psychological suicide. Perhaps the story of a personal god who sits in judgement and takes you after death to an eternal reward, is a kind of metaphor? When you say "I believe that God is the reason...or "means" to life explained (THE WORD OF GOD) in the bible!" I find that compatible with what I'm suggesting so long as you are willing to read it for meaning rather than literally.
Extraterrestrials really just kicks the can down the road, doesn't it? I couldn't very well be extraterrestrials 'all the way down'. At some point there is either abiogenesis or some intermediary being (who presumably under went his/her own abiogenesis). So, for my money, intermediary beings, like extraterrestrials just kicks the can down the road. Besides, if you really want to believe in a literal god, why cannot this being have brought about life through abiogenesis and evolution? (All powerful, right?)
If I may ask, are you a nun as your avatar suggests?
Have you ever considered that judgement, reward and punishment are all instantaneous and fluid. Goodness is its own reward and treachery is a kind of psychological suicide. Perhaps the story of a personal god who sits in judgement and takes you after death to an eternal reward, is a kind of metaphor? When you say "I believe that God is the reason...or "means" to life explained (THE WORD OF GOD) in the bible!" I find that compatible with what I'm suggesting so long as you are willing to read it for meaning rather than literally.
Quote:My dad on the other hand is an atheist, and thinks that "possibly" extraterrestrials dropped us here! He's always in a state of flux on the subject of creation!
Extraterrestrials really just kicks the can down the road, doesn't it? I couldn't very well be extraterrestrials 'all the way down'. At some point there is either abiogenesis or some intermediary being (who presumably under went his/her own abiogenesis). So, for my money, intermediary beings, like extraterrestrials just kicks the can down the road. Besides, if you really want to believe in a literal god, why cannot this being have brought about life through abiogenesis and evolution? (All powerful, right?)
If I may ask, are you a nun as your avatar suggests?
