RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2015 at 10:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-To the OP's question.
I've never thought it was a good idea to strap some poor schmuck to a post, then torture and kill him - in order to wipe my parking tickets clean. Does that sound like a good idea? You going to take anybody up on that offer? Think a christian would take anybody up on that offer? Personally, I don't know that the truth of either the OT or the NT has anything to say on the matter. If theyre stories, that won't make my parking ticket idea any better or worse, if they're the true words of a god....it won't make my parking ticket idea any better or worse. Whether someone points to the OT, the NT, both, neither, or the yellow pages.....my parking ticket idea remains precisely as good or bad as it was to begin with.
The only inconsistency in the NT that matters to me, surrounds the goodness of any "redemptive offer" and whether or not a person should take it, extoll it's virtue, or spread it around (as the reader is encouraged to do). Is it logical to accept vicarious redemption for sin, but not vicarious redemption for parking tickets (and is it moral or ethical, in either case - does it fit with being the good person, that we're supposed to be, or with a "good" god that might give us reason to give two shits about what it does, says, or wants us to do)?
-The rest of it is bickering over fanfic.........who cares if godman does something in chapter 10 that doesn't fit with what he did in chapter 2 - just what is that supposed to mean, anyway? I don't give a shit, personally. That's really where all the unintentional humor here lies, because while there are some who desperately do give a shit, and they create further fanfic to resolve what they see to be some objection to overcome, they do all this.....spend all that thought and time...without asking themselves those obvious questions above....and when they're done creating further stories to their satisfaction.....those questions remain.
hrugs:
I've never thought it was a good idea to strap some poor schmuck to a post, then torture and kill him - in order to wipe my parking tickets clean. Does that sound like a good idea? You going to take anybody up on that offer? Think a christian would take anybody up on that offer? Personally, I don't know that the truth of either the OT or the NT has anything to say on the matter. If theyre stories, that won't make my parking ticket idea any better or worse, if they're the true words of a god....it won't make my parking ticket idea any better or worse. Whether someone points to the OT, the NT, both, neither, or the yellow pages.....my parking ticket idea remains precisely as good or bad as it was to begin with.
The only inconsistency in the NT that matters to me, surrounds the goodness of any "redemptive offer" and whether or not a person should take it, extoll it's virtue, or spread it around (as the reader is encouraged to do). Is it logical to accept vicarious redemption for sin, but not vicarious redemption for parking tickets (and is it moral or ethical, in either case - does it fit with being the good person, that we're supposed to be, or with a "good" god that might give us reason to give two shits about what it does, says, or wants us to do)?
-The rest of it is bickering over fanfic.........who cares if godman does something in chapter 10 that doesn't fit with what he did in chapter 2 - just what is that supposed to mean, anyway? I don't give a shit, personally. That's really where all the unintentional humor here lies, because while there are some who desperately do give a shit, and they create further fanfic to resolve what they see to be some objection to overcome, they do all this.....spend all that thought and time...without asking themselves those obvious questions above....and when they're done creating further stories to their satisfaction.....those questions remain.
hrugs:
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