Things I learned in church

[T.J.]

It depends on what you are looking for. Do you want answers, including your op? Or is this, and your op just observation, or bashing?

It started as an observation of things that disturbed me and the irony in a couple of the quotes listed. I fail to see where any of it constitutes bashing. On the first page of the thread I commend the church for encouraging people doing actual research on the other religions we were studying at the time, and by research I mean they actually wanted you to go on the internet and read this stuff on Wikipedia and other sites you can find credited sources on.

For the sake of argument, and "observation"... why couldn't your "Baptist" minister be a person w/o a soul? Just because he says he's religious doesn't mean he represents the entire Protestant establishment. Maybe he's a plant trying to keep you away from God? He certainly wouldn't get many people away from the Catholic religion! But, I'm sure you already knew all that [op hogwash] was atypical. Right?

I never implied he represented an entire establishment of anything, though it's interesting that you suggest he's trying to steer me away from God after suggesting he's soulless. Are people without souls bad now? Because that kind of contradicts the point being made that I was originally addressing that made the claim Adam's family mated with such individuals. Additionally, what he said is biblical and can be supported by the bible as was also pointed out in this thread earlier.

If you are "bashing" in your [op].... more realistic and representative quotes and practices would at least inspire debate....but then maybe some humble pie on your part, for unjustified bashing? But you knew that. And it would've been boring too. Right?

You know your tone and the way you're carrying yourself right now doesn't help your cause, right?

Which brings us to "answers". If indeed you are looking for them. You have to think more like God. Throw out completely everything you know about religion, and man's involvement in it! There's a start.

Isn't God beyond our comprehension? How am I supposed to think like something that cannot be measured?

Jesus said, "The kingdom is within." [and] "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

Just.... You & God! Because, in the end? That's all there will be.

You ask me to forget everything I know about religion in order to think like God, then cite two separate bible passages from the religion I'm supposed to forget?