Not that I can't get my head around faith fr0d0 you keep forgetting I was a believer myself. It's that I have come to see faith for what it really is which is believing in something on somebody elses word thousands of years removed from our time.
You did not answer my question about believing in an afterlife of bliss in return for your faith now. Saying that "The eternal bit just explains the nature of the soul" does not answer that question adequately it just tells me that you believe that the soul is eternal. I want to know if you personally believe in eternal bliss after this life as a result of your faith.
Besides fr0d0 you keep speaking of the bible as if its authors sat around thinking about all these great theological questions that our modern scholars ponder. I am pretty sure that their interpretation of the scriptures (O.T. before Christ) were literal and continued to be so during the early years of the N.T.
You did not answer my question about believing in an afterlife of bliss in return for your faith now. Saying that "The eternal bit just explains the nature of the soul" does not answer that question adequately it just tells me that you believe that the soul is eternal. I want to know if you personally believe in eternal bliss after this life as a result of your faith.
Besides fr0d0 you keep speaking of the bible as if its authors sat around thinking about all these great theological questions that our modern scholars ponder. I am pretty sure that their interpretation of the scriptures (O.T. before Christ) were literal and continued to be so during the early years of the N.T.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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