RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 8:20 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2013 at 8:53 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
Lol, and to top it off, Christianity has a built in safeguard against logic! They are warned of people that will seem to make sense. They are told that these people are only interested in controversy and want only to trick and deceive and are gainfully employed by The Sultan of Sin himself. Absolutely brilliant. We live in a world where people are smart enough to get PHDs in physics, and still be dumb enough to think that sometime in the next 50 years Jesus is gonna come soaring down through the clouds like a superhero, on a wave of fire, laying all bad-guys to waste. Pretty disturbing to think about, don't you think?
The Bible makes it implicitly clear that God spoke these words directly to Moses. At no point are these things ever clarified by Jesus or reconciled in any way other than Christians insistence on flipping past them to get to the parts they like...
Leviticus:26 14-21
14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
21 “‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...ersion=NIV
These are the rants of men. Your bible describes a fictional extension of man intended to manipulate and strike fear into the hearts of the simple minded. I'm baffled by your obtuse approach to these scriptures written in your bible.
The Bible makes it implicitly clear that God spoke these words directly to Moses. At no point are these things ever clarified by Jesus or reconciled in any way other than Christians insistence on flipping past them to get to the parts they like...
Leviticus:26 14-21
14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
21 “‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...ersion=NIV
These are the rants of men. Your bible describes a fictional extension of man intended to manipulate and strike fear into the hearts of the simple minded. I'm baffled by your obtuse approach to these scriptures written in your bible.
