(June 14, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(June 14, 2013 at 10:39 pm)Godschild Wrote: I think that you should have qualified your knowledge on scripture when you said you tried to nail down someones belief to debate them or actually the way you made it sound trap them.
I think the actual point is that knowledge of scripture is damn near pointless; regardless of how much you know, there's no guarantee that any individual christian or christian sect will hold to any single piece of scriptural law. You could have a fully complete, working knowledge of every word of scripture and still not know the position of the christian you're talking to because not only do you all pick and choose which parts you want to follow and which ones you don't, and then also which of those are represented literally or metaphorically, but you then have to contend with their knowledge of scripture too.
Because surely you weren't thinking that yours is the only school of thought on this, GC? Pinning down theists on their beliefs is like herding cats, but even if you're successful there's no guarantee they think exactly as you do; there are all kinds of theologians, both crackpot and otherwise, who've twisted the bible in all manner of ways. Now, I know you no doubt think that all of them have got it wrong the moment they deviate from your one-true-bible worldview, but that's sort of the point; there's no such thing as knowledge of scripture because the scriptures themselves have been interpreted into meaninglessness over and over again.
It's apparent you did not read with intent to understand anything I stated, your definition of what I believe is all you care about, not what I really stated, well that's your choice, dishonest as it is. Because you do this I see no need in arguing any point with you, because the argument is between yourself and what you want to believe I said.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
