(May 10, 2014 at 5:34 pm)Lek Wrote: Our interpretation of scripture is worlds apart.Well, yeah, that's the point. There are many, many interpretations of scripture; we see many of them here in regards to many different points. And no, the message of salvation is NOT simple. There are numerous interpretations of how to be saved and how to stay saved, as well as contradictory interpretations of whether or not it's possible to be damned once you are saved, or saved once you are damned, and so on.
The most important book ever written, a book you claim is "one of the most acclaimed works of literature of all time," a key component to helping people find god and salvation... and it's written so badly that pretty much every bit of it can --AND IS-- interpreted multiple ways by many people, at least some of who believe that their way is the absolute only way to be saved. THAT is what you consider the legacy of a being of unimaginable intellect and wisdom.
When it comes to determining what makes a competent god, you set your standards surprisingly low.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
