(June 29, 2013 at 6:27 pm)catfish Wrote: Dude, would you have posted those passages if I had openly predicted that you would do exactly such a thing? "Then, after you adopt the literal fundy stance (I.E. insists it means eternal because that's what the English translation says)"
Did you read anything I've written?
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Either the Bible is to be taken literally or it is unreliable. If it is unreliable because it's not to be taken literally, or it's mistranslated, or rewritten in part, then I reject the supposedly "all loving" and "all powerful" God the Bible talks to us about. What if the Bible doesn't literally mean that there is a God? eh?
If that is your point then the Bible isn't truth and can't teach me anything. So it's useless.
Also, you don't have to be a fundy (reject evolution among other things) because you take the Bible literally.
I both took the Bible literally and believed in the Theory of Evolution for years and years.
Now THAT fucked with my head. I had all kinds of weird, convoluted concepts about how to reconcile the two beliefs.
I don't like talking to you or fr0d0. You guys annoy me. I like GC. At least he will have an open, honest conversation with you instead of dancing around in lame attempts to score a random point like we have some scoreboard monitoring our debate.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.