(July 8, 2015 at 5:56 pm)tonechaser77 Wrote: If you are using slavery as imagery for not having any will of your own AND agreeing that this is the correct way to view your relationship with god does this make you in agreement of slavery now? If this is the best design of imagery a god could come up with then that doesn’t say much about god.Why? Because you have a very narrow view of slavery and God is not speaking directly to you? What of the billions who came before who understood that the word slavery meant to have much broader applications than what you have come to understand?
Quote:Paraphrased argument: “Either you are a slave to sin or a slave to me and if you are a slave to me it actually brings you much freedom even though my definition of freedom is not to have any mind of your own.”Not bad, except you left out you truly don't have a mind of your own now, just an illusion of it.
Quote:This sounds more like antiquated views of pro-slavery being squeezed into a false metaphor to fit certain ideas of how god worked not vice versa.how is the metaphore considered to be false?
Quote:The fact that you support this ideal must mean you still support slavery today.WE Do still support the biblical definition of slavery today, even the 18th century picture most of you have adopted as it's singular meaning. "Modern" city/western life would not be possible if not for slavery. So what does pop culture do? Does it truly abolish slavery? no. It simply renames the slave and His labor and then everything is ok with pop morality. Even though the work and actual physical labor for little to no pay/with little to no chance of a life style change for the modern slave exists.
Quote:So the cognitive dissonance lies in your court. If you say you don’t agree with slavery today, what mental gymnastics do you perform to not agree to neo-slavery but agree to being a slave to god?All I have done to accept Slavery is to use the biblical definition of the greek dullos which includes but not limited to what you identify as a slave. A slave/Servant/Endentured Servant/Employee all = the greek word Dullos. A Dullos is one who will is superceeded by that of His Master. I have surrendered my Will and seek that of God. Which believe it or not has provided me with far more than I could have ever imagined for myself.
Quote:In reality, we don’t know there is a god and there certainly doesn’t appear to be any justifiable evidence.That's not true God provides all the evidence we could possible need for a life time if we simply A/S/K for it.