(September 25, 2021 at 9:07 am)brewer Wrote: Reading between the lines ayost was saying I got shit for evidence.
Is it not a coincidence that he looks at the "evidence" and just happens to see that one God out of the million he was indoctrinated to believe into?
And yet he calls us biased.
ayost Wrote:The Bible never claims God works like a puppet master, controlling everything. In fact, it’s quit the opposite. God is working in and through his people in spite of who they are. Gods word gets through to who He intends it get through to.
Actually, Bible does say that there is no free will and that everything is predestined by God.
Eph. 1:4-5, "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world . . . . Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ himself, according to the good pleasure of his will"
Rom. 8:29-30, "Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son .... Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called";
Eph. 1:11, "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will";
John 6:44, "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him";
And so on.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
