(September 18, 2013 at 11:52 am)John V Wrote:(September 18, 2013 at 11:48 am)max-greece Wrote: Have you ever wondered if Satan is actually the good guy and its God that is the evil one - but that God has better PR?No. I can intellectually recognize that the possibility exists and that my positions admittedly rest to a degree on faith, but I haven't actually pondered if Satan is the good guy. Why would I? Heck, it could be that there's a capricious God making all of it up, but I'm not sitting around pondering that, either.
Why would you? Now that's a question.
You see to me it wouldn't make a jot of difference as I don't believe in either of them but if you are a believer then an eternity in heaven awaits the outcome - doesn't it?
To be honest I was just musing as follows:
We know God is good because the Bible tells us.
If God didn't write the bible he certainly had a hand in steering those that did.
So its his word.
Now if we look at his word we see the rules (think 7 deadly sins for example) and then we compare his behaviour against those. As a believer we then have to jump through hoops to justify why he doesn't live up to his own guidelines.
Could it be that the dangers of a written Bible is that we don't see the irony or sarcasm in his voice? Look how hard to tell whether someone is being serious or sarcastic in a post on here - and these posts are so much shorter than the Bible is.
My original post was written tongue in cheek - now I am not so sure.
No wonder he is so evasive and difficult to understand.
No wonder he only ever appears to illiterate peasants of generally fairly low intelligence.
No wonder there are so many versions of belief - that followers are happy to kill over.
Bloody hell!!
