(February 21, 2018 at 4:00 pm)Banned Wrote: I wasn't dismissing your life at all. But it is very plain from your comment that you don't have the right knowledge of the scriptures - which don't condemn you at all.Why should we believe you? Who's to say there even is a "right knowledge of the scriptures"?
Quote:Love is not love, if there is manipulation involved - because manipulation - no matter how wonderful the experience may be - is coercion and not love.This ^^^ is why I can never become a Christian. Threats of eternal torture or of annihilation are manipulative. Guilt-tripping to get someone to accept Jesus is also manipulative. Telling someone that they're a sinner and incapable of fixing their own mistakes is manipulative.
Quote:Faith starts with nothing, but it is the only thing humans have to begin to love God.
And for me, faith is a neurological impossibility.