(October 17, 2013 at 12:36 am)Aral Gamelon Wrote:(October 17, 2013 at 12:25 am)Godschild Wrote: What does it matter to you, you didn't understand what He was teaching. To make His point the parable had to be told as it was, simple really.Don't presume to know what I do or do not understand, as an ex christian the story is well known to me and it's meaning is quite clear.
GC
The point I'm trying to make is that this is one of many inconsistencies in the bible. Sure, any person writing a narrative can make a mistake or not think to have the rules of an alternate reality down pat, but we are talking about a supposedly perfect higher being. Sure it's small fries compared to the rest of them but it's a valid point nonetheless.
Adds to skepticism.
I can presume you know nothing more about the parable than the contradiction you want to make it out to be. If you understood the parable you would know that it had to be presented in the way it was, there is no other way to present the parable. That's why Jesus is smarter than you are.
GC
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.