(March 30, 2014 at 1:41 pm)professor Wrote: In response to Esq-
Jesus made an amazing statement to the leaders of his day.
He said,"You make the word of God to no effect BY YOUR TRADITIONS".
Therefore, there would be an effect by the word of God - (thru people- that is usually how God works) if the lies of tradition weren't in them.
Since faith comes by hearing, if you are hearing falsehoods- those falsehoods have the ability to block faith.
It is apparent in the Bible, that God has chosen the manner of acting on belief prior to seeing the result. We have plenty of input all around us to interfere with that process.
Which would all be fine and dandy, if we weren't talking about miracles, and not the bible.
Actually, it also wouldn't be all fine and dandy, because what you're saying is that your god is utterly powerless to actually appear, to the point that simply not believing in him leaves our credibility perfectly okay.
You talk about this guy like he's some brute fact of the universe, but most things that are that interwoven with reality are so obvious that to deny them makes you look insane, but suddenly we've got god, who's so obvious to you all, and yet I can deny him without suffering any ill effects to people's perceptions of me?
Interesting!
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