(December 9, 2013 at 12:36 am)Esquilax Wrote:(December 8, 2013 at 5:42 pm)Godschild Wrote: I never said that they worshiped the moon, I'm saying the took a combination of the OT and the moon god worship, those parts they chose and made a new religion from the combination. I understand they believe they worship the God of Judaism, the reality of it is they combined two religions to make the one they liked. This in no way resembles what the Israelites and Christians do, we worship God for who He is, not for what we want Him to be, though I know Christians that try and make God into what they want. We do not choose God as other religions do, God chooses us.
You do exactly the same thing, picking and choosing what attributes you want your god to possess, and then pretending that specific variant is the one true god. It's the reason you don't own slaves, why you haven't tried to kill me and my peeps for not believing, why you shave, and a bunch of other things. You just lack the self awareness to see that.
I choose to accept the God of scripture and all His attributes, I understand why God did what He did in the OT, that's why I have no problem with the OT. If I were to choose the attributes of God that made Him real to me and leave out the others would mean I'm worshiping a god that's not the One scripture describes, thus where would I be in my salvation, bad shape I would presume.
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.