(March 15, 2014 at 9:22 am)discipulus Wrote: Ideas like righteousness, repentance, worship, glory, honor, humility etc etc... leave a bitter taste in the mouth of the proud and self centered.
I should probably just ignore you since you've demonstrated your dishonest nature. This post is just another in a long line of strawmen and arrogant attributions of motivations contrived to validate your own beliefs. However, because this argument comes up so frequently, I do feel the need to address it using the oft cited three steps to being a Christian.
1. Confess you are a sinner.
I have no problem with admitting I'm a sinner, if by "sin" you mean I'm not perfect and have done things in my past I wish I could do differently.
2. Repent.
I have no problem with committing to "turn from sin", if by that you mean facing my past mistakes, learning from them and resolving to become a better person.
3. Believe Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to be your redeemer.
And finally, there's the part about thinking the "solution" is to believe that we beat the hell out of a man 2000 years ago and executed him in a torturous manner. If I believed we appease the anger of the gods by throwing a virgin into a volcano, my beliefs would be rightly condemned as being both barbaric and absurd. But to believe roughly the same thing about a man on a cross, and I'm a brother in Christ.
You had me... you had me... you lost me.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
