A discussion around family table.

[Scented Nectar]

You choose not to take context into account, yet are complaining that you don't understand.

There's no context being presented to me, so how can I understand something if it's not there? The missing element is any example at all of where I have taken a horrible bible thing out of context. An example meaning that you show how the other bible parts cancel it out. I am willing to take context into account, but I don't think you can present anything other than your emotions about what a good god must have meant. Speaks well of you, so don't get me wrong here, you seem to be choosing the more moral paths in life despite your evil god's commands.

You can define faith any way you like, you seem to accept only the interpretations of words that coincide with your biases.

That's unfair. The normal dictionary definitions must be assumed by me, since you never used a disclaimer saying 'when I use the word faith here, I really mean such&such which is similar in thisorthat but different in as far as whatzit goes'. Note that I used nonsense words as fillers since I still don't know what your personal definition of the word is compared to which parts of the normal definitions.

You and the writer above claim how can you believe in something you can't interact with. We're saying you can't know if something exists unless you've interacted with it. If you feel every theist is a delusional, irrational unicorn believer than fine by me. If you want to believe the holy spirit is just an emotional state, fine by me. I really wish you wouldn't speak to things you have no context or belief in though.

I've fully interacted. Just like the guy in the video (Dusty Smith, has lots of great videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CultOfDusty by the way), I am very willing to interact with any gods that want to communicate with me. I've done my part. I'm here, if ever any god wishes to chat. They don't even have to phone ahead. Same goes for other deities too though, and flower fairies, and thetans, and ghosts, and santa clauses, and really any other supernatural entities. It's usually nice to meet new people, especially unusual interesting ones, as I imagine these beings would be.