SkepticThinker
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Well who could oppose such scholarship and rigorous proof? I think you determined this long before you evaluated it. That is not the point anyway. This is the context God comes with. If he is to be evaluated it must be within the environment and context that he comes in.
Sorry, just being honest. To me, the Bible is a work of fiction, like a fairy tale story where its meant to teach a moral lesson of some kind. I determined this long ago when I first read the Bible all the way through. And just the fact that its subject to all kinds of interpretation based on what kind of Christian is reading it and what their belief systems are doesnt really help make it any more believable.
Im not trying to be offensive here, Im just trying to explain where Im coming from.
Who said that? First he created all of us to live in perfection and harmony with him. If this is true then your attitude and mine throughout most of my life is a good indication that we would have none of it and so we were cast out of this perfection into a land where the rewards of our rebellion were obvious. He did not look for a person so he could declare his descendants special. He looked for one who would follow him and render his descendants special in the process. Not that others were forgotten. Many times Israel's specialness was a far greater liability than an advantage.
None, IMO with the possible exception of the Decalogue. Many of them are literally impossible to follow today. There is no temple to do many others in.
I thought you had said that.
All this sounds like to me, is that your god was/is looking for people who obey his commands without question. Do so and you get to live in perfection and harmony with him. Dont do it and you burn in a lake of fire forever. Furthermore, if god really does want us all to live in perfection and harmony with him, then why make the commandments impossible to obey? It sounds like he has stacked the deck against us from the get-go. That doesnt sound to me like a deity that wants to live in perfection and harmony with his creation.