RE: The dead in christ?
July 25, 2014 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2014 at 10:40 am by RobbyPants.)
(July 23, 2014 at 7:43 pm)CindysRain Wrote: The bible is written in such a chaotic way that everyone can decode and interpret it differently. Someone else might get another "metaphor" from those verses.
It's always a treat (or not) to run into an insular group that believes they've got it all figured out. I was posting in a den of Baptists a while ago before I left when I realized there were no discussions to be had there. Their stock answer to anyone who didn't believe exactly as them (be it atheist, non-Christian, or non-Baptist, even) is that the person hasn't been "truly" saved, and that "it all makes sense if you believe".
Yes, that's their stated position. They don't believe it because it makes sense, it makes sense because they believe.
(July 23, 2014 at 7:43 pm)CindysRain Wrote: Why would an all-knowing being that had such an important salvation message to deliver to the world, compile such a jumbled mess of words and stories, that can easily be confused? He wouldn't, in my opinion.
The only response I get to that is that we all get some sort of divine revelation telling us what's true. When I tell them I haven't, I'm either told I will get one, or they call me a liar and say that I'm willfully rejecting God because I hate him, I really believe in God, and I fully deserve eternal punishment.
All because their book is fucking incomprehensible and it makes them edgy.
