(December 30, 2015 at 9:20 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:(December 28, 2015 at 2:01 am)Heat Wrote: So let me get this straight, if I read the bible, and don't come to the same conclusion about God as you have, that means I didn't read the bible right?Nope. It means that at this time God has not drawn you to Himself.
If you read the Bible and misrepresents what it says, that may mean you didn't read it right. The conclusions you come to after understanding it, that's a different story.
(December 28, 2015 at 2:01 am)Heat Wrote: If you read any other book, and you interpret it differently from me, you don't see me standing there screaming back "WELL READ IT AGAIN BECAUSE MY WAY IS RIGHT".I couldn't have written that any better than you did. I agree, fadora's are more July than sleep.
this appears to be typical dodge of the christian. The very clear message i get from reading the bible is that this god made everything and then us. Gave us free will and expected us not to use it. Then when we did he was so angry that he made our lives and hell and worse damned us to an eternal hell unless we did everything in exactly the way he wanted including kill/shun/convert everyone that did not worship him. Then in order to lift that demand he kills his favorite child to satisfy his anger toward us. so now The only way we can avoid the predetermined hell is to grovel in worthlessness at the sacrifice that this god needed to appease himself of our "god" given free will.
If i'm missing the point then the book and most of its interpriters are seriously flawed.
