(September 28, 2014 at 2:38 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Deride: God didn't get mad. God got nice and offered you a gift. Your choice entirely where you accept it or not. People go on about how it's liberating to appreciate reality in all its glory, yet here you are unhappy with it.
God isn't saying that you'll suffer if you reject his gift. He's saying: here's a way to benefit. If you reject it nothing changes. Only you don't get the changes.
And before literal mistranslation of genesis there was the correct interpretation where it was understood that the authors weren't trying to describe something they knew not about. Fact.
The word of God didn't change, and doesn't need to change to be understood in our context. I'm a literalist. I believe that the literal and most accurate translation states nothing about cosmology, just as it was understood originally.
You're not a horrible person according to my faith. You're a person not realising their potential. God will always forgive you. That isn't in question. The question is, will you accept forgiveness.
Thanks for this, fr0d0. This kind of reply, is easier to dialogue with. :=)
So I have two questions, then:
1) What do you mean by literal mistranslation of Genesis?
2) What am I being forgiven for?