Quote:What a shame that the most famous writers of Christian theology throughout the ages, from Augustine to Luther, and the leaders that inspired both Catholic and Protestant sects, from Torquemada to the Salem witch hunters, didn't have your insight into the true teachings of the Bible. How could they have been so blind that for nearly 2000 years they'd gotten it all wrong? Well, at least your here now and better late than never, right?
Well thats where you are wrong. Its only been in the past several centuries that our theology has been distorted
Quote:And martyrs get 72 virgins. Look, kid, religions change. This one has changed for the worse along most sects. Let's not forget you used to be able to buy indulgences from the catholic church. Religions change when it makes it easier to spread their mindvirus, destroy their enemies or survive.
Show me in the Quran that you will get 72 virgins if you kill yourself? And show me where you can buy indulgences so you can get people out of purgatory from the Bible?
Quote:And according to Christians, thou shalt not kill. Yet, that didn't stop Christians from killing throughout the years.
Your point being? If I wore a red hat and the Bible told me I should not, should you throw the Bible out as being rubbish or perhaps throw me out as somehow distorting the Bible?
DeistPaladin, I believe in universal justification, that everyone has received justification, it depends what kind of life, if they continue to keep it (i.e. if you go against your conscious, I would say that is fairly dangerous, read Romans 2).
Its ok to have doubt, just dont let that doubt become the answers.
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer