(October 18, 2018 at 4:30 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 18, 2018 at 3:47 pm)Joods Wrote: Then the bible should just indicate that and not leave it up to 20,000 different interpretations for people to figure out.but what if all 20,000 version were right for those 20000 groups of people?
But that contradicts what other theists here have said about how the bible is to be interpreted. And this is part of the problem. It's either the inerrant word of god, to be interpreted as is, or it isn't. So 20,000 interpretations can't all be right.
Quote: what if it is about doing your best and each best will be a little less than some but greater than other enough so it takes 20000 groups to encapsulate the different levels of 'best' before God?
I don't think that is how god wanted people to understand his specific instructions. And according to the bible, they were pretty specific.
Quote:Here something to think about what if... God's offer goes beyond those who call them selves christian?
I don't think we qualify for god's offer. What about the parts of the bible that says gentiles are not promised the afterlife?
Quote:What if for some crazy reason we do not get to decide who is and who is not christian that our ceremonies and rituals mean nothing to God and God judges us on what he knows to be the absolute truth of who we are? What if salvation is not something we obtain but something given? you know kinda like the bible says??
It would mean for some the bar gets raised by alot and for others it get lowered to the point that almost any idiot can get in?
And what if all of that was imagined because a bunch of men sat around a fire and told some really creative stories?
What if you get to the end of your life, only to find that the god you believed in and was faithful to, didn't exist?
What if you spent your whole life wasting away for some afterlife that never happens?
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