RE: Great bible teachings!
May 16, 2010 at 8:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2010 at 9:29 pm by tackattack.)
John you're blending all your quotes together and it looks like you're rebutting yourself... It is quite confusing. Perhaps if you used a quote tag that referenced a particular person you'd do a little betteror even a hide tag.
(May 16, 2010 at 1:02 pm)John_S3V Wrote:
Firstly, I'm only commenting on your patronizing tone because I initially thought it was towards me. Since you also assume to speak for people, this should probably be what you should change that first paragraph to say in my case: I do not presume to have any authority over God in any way. delete the bit about you finding it impossible to determine your own morals and yet they are subjectiveYes I am human, and I seek happiness just as much as the next man. So let me get this straight, you don't believe a child molesting, rapist murderer is wrong or is it you don't consider his acts evil?
(May 16, 2010 at 1:02 pm)John_S3V Wrote:
This is also an emphatically untrue statement, but since you're presuming to tell me which God I worship as well I guess I'll just switch my religous status to whatever John tells me. The Bible is a tool where men have written down their ideas about what they percieve as God in their lives and their lives in general. The pre Christian believers probably saw God the way you do. Then, according to the Bible, Jesus came and showed us a better understanding of who God is. Since then Science has also helped to give us an idea of what old-school biblical signs weren't really God's hand. If anyone is cherry picking here it's you for completely ignoring the new testament teachings of Jesus and only seeing the OT God. The OT God and the NT God are the same God too, btw. If you and I both see a cube and from behind you see it as red, but in front I see it as blue, regardless of who's right we're both looing at the same cube.
I'm not sure if any of the rest was a response to me, so I'll leave it, it's quite confusing.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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