RE: Jacob Wrestles With God
November 14, 2013 at 10:14 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2013 at 10:17 pm by Ryantology.)
Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote: But in order to be fair, you'd have to require everyone to provide citations and explain why they are relevant, for every assertion. You can't just pick on the theists.
I don't care if they bother explaining the verse to me, but if someone who claims to know the Bible says that something is in it, why should it be up to the other person to dig through the whole thing trying to find it?
For example, what I mentioned with Lion above. I asked where the Bible mentions God endowing humans with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. His response was "Ever read Galatians?" When I asked for specific verses, he refused to offer any. "Galatians 2:12" or something along those lines would have been satisfactory. I could have read the verse, and then we could have hashed out the meaning together. Instead, I'm not only told to go find it myself, but I'm also expected to figure out, on my own, which part Lion interprets as agreeing with the DoI, as I already know that the DoI's exact phrasing did not come from the Bible.
It's not asking much.