RE: A discussion around family table.
May 25, 2010 at 1:53 am
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2010 at 3:04 am by tackattack.)
Scented Nectar Wrote:
Cheers for more to come.1- I don't believe you've said anything you don't mean or have out right lied intentionally. My point being your onesidedness. If you see God, even only as a human concept, projected to the universe(and I believe you do) You're still ignoring the duality that would inately entail. Here are some examples:
Here's my very simplified thoughts on a more even approach:
Does God kill people? yes
Does God save people? yes
Does God seperate the good from the bad? yes
Is there justice in his reasoing? IMO, yes.
Does injustice happen? yes.
2- You're not going to find anything that cancels out anything is what I'm saying. You're looking at the rules and yes a lot of them are outdated. The one's referenced (outside the 10) were created by man for man and have been used to manipulate, control, sieze land/wealth/people for centuries and it's a travesty, IMO. Bickering over my interpretation on the book as a whole when it comes to laws vs. yours isn't getting anywhere. I believe in Jesus' interpretation of the law and his message of love, forgiveness and questioning. If yoou're loking for the parts of the Bible, that are the crux of why I consider God good to me, I'll point a few out, and I'll try and give you the gist.
Theese don't "cancel out" anything. Let me give you an excerpt
"Structure-Proposition-Evaluation (SPE) method, popularized by Mortimer Adler in How to Read a Book, mainly for non-fiction treatise, in which one reads a writing in three passes: (1) for the structure of the work, which might be represented by an outline; (2) for the logical propositions made, organized into chains of inference; and (3) for evaluation of the merits of the arguments and conclusions. This method involves suspended judgment of the work or its arguments until they are fully understood. "
I think yoou're not suspending judgement, and your chains of inference are horribly one sided. I can completely understand why your opinons of the merits of the Bible are the way they are.
And just so you can appreciate it, Not even the Catholic church believes in the inerreant accuracy of the Bible.
3- You say faith is illogical and counterproductive and I disagree. Blind faith is illogical and counterproductive and I don't appreciate blind faith. I wasn't speaking of blind faith though. I believe I linked to Arcanus' explination of faith somewhere above.
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