(January 3, 2014 at 5:25 am)Godschild Wrote: The verses you used are not apocalyptic, they are about repentance and coming to the Christ. The wording may resemble apocalyptic but it doesn't mean that's what it is. John the Baptist never preached about the apocalypse, Christ however did but it was a minor part of His teaching.Obviously you wouldn't know apocalyptic preaching if it bit you in the ass. Your mind is totally channeled by what you hear and read in your church.
Is that how you taught in your church, through tracts, we do research.
GC
No, that is not how I taught in my church 30+ years ago. I used to believe bullshit very similar to yours. Don't know if you are familiar with it, but my former denomination was the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, which is very conservative on the issue of biblical inerrancy. Eventually I realized that I was doing mental contortions to pretend there were no contradictions and more importantly to me, to pretend that all the barbaric genocides and punishments supposedly ordered by God were justified instead of being the sick propaganda of a bunch of primitives.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
