(July 20, 2013 at 8:37 am)Texas Sailor Wrote:(July 19, 2013 at 2:48 pm)Godschild Wrote: Are you really that ignorant of what scripture says, if you are why do you even try to argue scripture?Show me where I argue scripture? I only ask those who claim to know. Me reading it, isn't important. You'd just say that my interpretation is wrong because I haven't had the spirit reveal the truths within it...or something like that. It's much easier to just discuss your interpretations of it.
Don't you think hat having an idea of what scripture says would help in a discussion. The planet we live on was created in one day, this is easy to get from scripture. You can read scripture and get much from it, what I refer to as the surface knowledge. Spiritual meanings come from divine revelation by the Holy Spirit. Non believers can understand a lot from surface knowledge, especially salvation, God made this the simplest part of the scriptures to understand so the simplest minds can see God's gift. When I say people have a wrong interpretation is when they take a verse give it an interpretation without other supporting scripture. It's irritating to have someone who uses unsupported scripture to tell me I'm wrong, when I've done the research and found supporting verses, and all they want to do is use a single verse to support an argument and they use the verse wrongly.
Just discussing my interpretation does not always mean that it could be the correct one, challenges to interpretation is good, as long as real research of the scriptures is done by both parties.
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.
