RE: Christianity almost impossible without indoctrination
February 17, 2014 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2014 at 2:41 pm by Sword of Christ.)
(February 17, 2014 at 2:06 pm)truthBtold Wrote: And u know this because the bible says so???
Well yes that is the idea as the Bible is the revelation from God to mankind. It supports the same fundamental form of morality you consider to be moral because your moral values derive both from Christianity within the cultural context and also from God who is the metaphysical context who underpins everything that exists. It also represents the life and beliefs of a historical ancient culture which clearly wasn't in many ways as advanced as our own. We have clearly and factually made some kind of progress towards some form of ideal. Though we ourselves fall far from this ideal we can't be too smug.
Quote:Come on get real.. u believe a book written by whackos.. edited by bigger whackos... and fed to people like u with no EVIDENCE. ... I have fresh air to sell u... please dont waste it by blowing it out ur ass....
You provide your own evidence with your knowledge of morality being something that is unchanging and not culturally and historically relative. That's how you can pick out these passages in the Bible and claim there is something wrong with them, you get this from God and from Christ which are in some way one and the same thing in some way. You feel a genuine horror at some of these passages and an inner discomfort, as well you should. The first Christians felt the exactly same way as you as do modern Christians of course. But all you have to do is point to the foundation stone of the faith who is Jesus Christ the man who underpins the Christian faith and provides the context to which the whole thing can be read.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.