(August 10, 2015 at 9:14 am)robvalue Wrote: It is certainly the best one I can remember! It's great to not be thrown into Hell halfway through the debate for not agreeing with someone, which is what usually happens.
As for the bible, if all we need is "love thy neighbour", what's the point of the rest of it? You'd actually have to make a series of excuses why you don't follow the rest of it. It's full of immoral instruction right through.
No there is really only one excuse and that was Jesus fulfilled the law and paid the consequence of sin for all. That is why Drich and GC will say things like "they don't apply". While technically true, I think that statement needs clarification. If we go back to genesis, there was one simple commandment. "Do not eat of the tree of knowledge of god and evil." That was broken and Moses had to come up with 613 laws. I go back to my analogy of the smoke detector. The sign says "Don't mess with it". We then do what we want and say, "well it didn't say don't touch, or destroy, or disengage, etc."
There is an objective standard, "Don't mess with it" and we selectively interpret and redefine.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
