(June 23, 2015 at 9:38 pm)Beccs Wrote:(June 23, 2015 at 9:26 pm)Jenny A Wrote: None of it will do you a lick of good Beccs, unless you are one of god's chosen. It only works for those few who have a covenant with god. If you don't have a covenant god will order those who do to massacre you whether you wear mixed fibers or not. That's how the OT god works.
Makes you wonder why they refer to Satan as the bad guy, doesn't it?
That's why I find the Gnostics so much fun. They thought the OT god was Satan and Jesus came to help us escape the horrid torture chamber the OT god had created. No evidence for it of course, but it makes a heck of a lot more sense than current christian teachings. Unfortunately escaping involves recognizing that you are a sort of soul god with no real physical being. And of course some poor unfortunate slobs really are all physical and therefore stuck here whether they become enlightened or not. But as an explanation for the existence of evil, it's head and shoulders above Christianity.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
