RE: Indoctrination & Mental Gymnastics
January 13, 2015 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2015 at 11:10 pm by Full Circle.)
(January 13, 2015 at 11:54 am)Lek Wrote: The thief on the cross wasn't baptized and didn't even know about baptism, but I'm sure that he would have been baptized, given the opportunity. The same would apply to the person in my example. I agree we interpret the bible differently concerning the salvation of those who haven't heard the word.
lek, your fallback position on “different interpretation” of Scripture is a perfect example of why I think the Christian Bible is but a compendium of contradictory, self-refuting, incomprehensible, unverifiable, pseudepigrapha and co-opted scrambled mish-mash of human imagination that can be interpreted, understood and misunderstood differently by every single person who has ever read it, and keep in mind that this is the “inspired” work of a perfect, omniscient, omnipotent, just God that loves you but created an eternal Hell.
This issue of “different interpretations” of Scripture is why there are some 43,000 Christian sects. Made me think of this:
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
