(December 7, 2013 at 6:03 pm)Godschild Wrote:In other words, you have no answer. No one can know what I experienced, certainly not you who have never met me.(December 7, 2013 at 3:15 pm)xpastor Wrote: So why hasn't Drich the Giant Killer responded to my latest post, where I pointed out that much of the Old Testament reads like a manual for the Taliban?
You believe that because you have never experienced God and His truth.
GC
Going by externals, when I was a Christian, I sacrificed far more than most Christians ever do. I entered a three-year seminary program at the age of 36 with a family of a wife and two children, paid all my own costs, and tithed on my income such as it was.
As for the Old Testament passages ... if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
Murdering babies, stoning people who change their religion, cutting off hands, forcing a young woman to marry her rapist, you tell me how to distinguish this from the Taliban.
And telling me that it is printed in a book with black covers and gold lettering which someone told you is the word of God doesn't amount to anything.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House