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.....and, apparently, when someone dismisses the Gifts of the Holy Spirit as being non-Biblical, Christians are suppose to remain silent. Weird way of looking at it.......but.............
......and, apparently, when someone dismisses entire groups of people as being "happy, clappy churches" Christians are suppose to remain silent. Weird way of looking at it.......but.......
......and, apparently, when someone dismisses entire groups of people as being "happy, clappy churches" Christians are suppose to remain silent. Weird way of looking at it.......but.......
I know right, a person exercising due diligence, just as Jesus told us to.
Shocker!
Anyway, not anymore.
Does that make me a naughty boy?
A statistically significant number of Christians I've met (not all) would suggest that either
1. The Church as a collective group of people is rotten, and so far away from God that it's not worth associating with it anyway
2. Or, that the kind of god that attracts these kind of people isn't the kind of God that I'd like to follow (i.e. not the actual creator), in which case the same holds.
Anyway, please feel to proceed to tell me what I bad boy I now am.
Meanwhile, I wish you all the best.
Shocker!
Anyway, not anymore.
Does that make me a naughty boy?
A statistically significant number of Christians I've met (not all) would suggest that either
1. The Church as a collective group of people is rotten, and so far away from God that it's not worth associating with it anyway
2. Or, that the kind of god that attracts these kind of people isn't the kind of God that I'd like to follow (i.e. not the actual creator), in which case the same holds.
Anyway, please feel to proceed to tell me what I bad boy I now am.
Meanwhile, I wish you all the best.
Who cares what someone else thinks of you and the views you have concerning the Bible. They did not die for you and can't save you if they actually tried to. All that actually matters is how you feel you stand with God. Do you actually feel like you are a bad boy? If not, then don't be concerned over being falsely judged.
Your conflation of asking basic questions with swearing, telling people off, and making claims that are almost universally rejected by Christians is not "exercising due diligence", so quit your silly self-righteous act.
Statistically significant? By what statistical test? Chi-squared perhaps? Or maybe ANOVA? What was your critical value? Where did you collect your data? What was your sample size? What was your data-collection method? Is your dataset and test methodology available for examination? Or, as I am almost certain, are you simply blowing smoke?
Fallacy: false dichotomy.
Another lame attempt to justify your rejection of truth.
Statistically significant? By what statistical test? Chi-squared perhaps? Or maybe ANOVA? What was your critical value? Where did you collect your data? What was your sample size? What was your data-collection method? Is your dataset and test methodology available for examination? Or, as I am almost certain, are you simply blowing smoke?
Fallacy: false dichotomy.
Another lame attempt to justify your rejection of truth.
I'm sorry but I'm so pleased I'm free.
There are sensible people in Christianity.
Then there are nice people.
But damn it's like your brains have fallen out.
God gave you all a brain and told you to use it.
Why don't you?
There's no damn reasoning with many of you!
But hey, I've just read a quote that says "If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people", so I guess you're only doing what's natural to you.
I should stop, because personal insults isn't my style.
I'll leave that to you guys.
There are sensible people in Christianity.
Then there are nice people.
But damn it's like your brains have fallen out.
God gave you all a brain and told you to use it.
Why don't you?
There's no damn reasoning with many of you!
But hey, I've just read a quote that says "If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people", so I guess you're only doing what's natural to you.
I should stop, because personal insults isn't my style.
I'll leave that to you guys.
There is something radically wrong with today's approach to scripture. I recently had it pointed out to me that God does not tell us that he started creation on the day scripture lists the days. Scripture tells us "in the beginning" was when God started creation. Scripture doesn't tell us when that beginning was.
It doesn't make a bit of difference when our earth was created, but it makes a whale of a difference if a person believes science then believes the bible makes a statement about how old the earth is, so based on science is right they toss out scripture.
Scripture makes some definite statements, yet these same people who stand fast on the age of the earth, something scripture makes no statement about, will stand just a pat about how they don't believe what scripture says, especially if it is in the OT. Some of the OT statements have changed like the necessity to perform rituals, so today's church tosses much of the OT in with the instructions that tells us we are to listen to the Holy Spirit now instead of the rituals.
It doesn't make a bit of difference when our earth was created, but it makes a whale of a difference if a person believes science then believes the bible makes a statement about how old the earth is, so based on science is right they toss out scripture.
Scripture makes some definite statements, yet these same people who stand fast on the age of the earth, something scripture makes no statement about, will stand just a pat about how they don't believe what scripture says, especially if it is in the OT. Some of the OT statements have changed like the necessity to perform rituals, so today's church tosses much of the OT in with the instructions that tells us we are to listen to the Holy Spirit now instead of the rituals.
Well given that I'm no longer a Christian, do you expect me to believe any of it?
Matthew 7:5 is a Christian's favourite quote to go to when somebody is making them feel vulnerable, be it by causing them to question silly non-core beliefs or by asking them to look at their behaviour.
The quote is fine, in its original context, but is used by Christians as a kind of tactic to detract from the point.
Anyway, do you believe the Earth is of the order of 6,000 years old?
Matthew 7:5 is a Christian's favourite quote to go to when somebody is making them feel vulnerable, be it by causing them to question silly non-core beliefs or by asking them to look at their behaviour.
The quote is fine, in its original context, but is used by Christians as a kind of tactic to detract from the point.
Anyway, do you believe the Earth is of the order of 6,000 years old?