(June 28, 2013 at 6:52 pm)Drich Wrote: The answer is simplicity itself: because God said so.
Even if you can not understand that the wages of all sin is death, and Jesus literally died in your place to attone for your sin you still can get because God said so. Because in the end God is the one who is judging you not Monty python. Therefore it is by His rules his standard that you will be judged.
That is honest, but only if you grant that every word god supposedly said is equally good and right. If you grant that, then ok. The bible supports slavery, will you say that is good, because god said so, and it's his standards you live by?
Christians would often say this part is a metaphor, this part is the old testament, jesus didn't really mean sell everything you have, on and on and on.
If you can really interpret what god actually commanded, and what he meant as a metaphor and which part of the old testament doesn't apply, It's high time you revamped the bible so the rest of us aren't so confused.
