Except the notes were shelved, left for 350 years, carefully selected and edited before publication.
Still judgement.
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Interviewing God
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Except the notes were shelved, left for 350 years, carefully selected and edited before publication.
Still judgement.
I think you are confusing cleanliness of the mind (which incidentally may be different gor people of different faiths or no faith) with hygiene.
Why wash hands over a dead animal, why not after one had handled the animal?
Washing feet is ritual, what about hands etc.
Not going further, obviously you interpret the bible far differently than i do
Please provide evidence that modern day doctor went from morgue to delivery room and said doctors caused the death of the newborn.
Yes some people, many people have different beliefs, what is to say your interpretation is correct and they are wrong?
FYI, according to the church i am Christian, i was baptized and my name entered in their records. I have tried several times to have that entry deleted, always without luck.
On that basis alone i believe the number that Christianity gives as Christian is much exaggerated compared to real life
The 'church' merely recognized and testified to what was already written, accepted from the ancient manuscripts.
Yes, even infants who had No choice in the matter are often still counted as being Christian.
So, yes, much exaggerated compared to real life.
I was a baptised infant in another state. I wrote there to delete my name and never heard back.
Years later in that other state I attended a relative's funeral.
The family was outraged because everyone's name was missing. No trace of any records.
Besides names, all the old cemetery records (starting with 1913) for the family plot they were also gone/ missing.
The undertaker was stunned, and when I told him I had the cemetery deed he immediately copied it for the record.
Selectively
I suppose it started with questions.
When my father died, what is there about hell fire? Forever burning pain after death ? (sounded crazy to me)
After all, Jesus said to be in fear of him who can kill the soul.
So, how can a dead soul be alive to feel burning pain?
When my grandmother died why pray she'd be acquitted of sin when Romans 6:7,23 says she already is acquitted ?
When my uncle died how could pay-and-pray masses change what he did or did not do?
When a friend's infant died, why did the minister say (Not the Bible) that God needed another angel ?
Both church and science class taught Earth will be destroyed.
One fine day I met a man who said I have good news for you and read me Ecclesiastes 1:4 that Earth abides forever, as does Psalms 104:5 mention Earth being permanent.
For me, I choose to only learn more of what the Bible really teaches, and who would satisfactory answer my questions. Surely literal hell-fire is Not biblical. Surely the soul dies. Surely death acquits a person's sins.
God does Not need more angels by taking infants from earth.
Selectively by the internal harmony found among the 66 Bible books.
Thus, the apocryphal books simply exclude themselves by being out of harmony with the harmonious 66 Bible books
These choices were made 350 years after JCs death, there is little to say if they are actually true. In many cases there is nothing to say this or that actually happened.
Who chose "harmony" who chose to omit swathes of information?
Example. It is know that all the gnostic scriptures were omitted.
Madmogwai
Madmogwai
Yes, the New Testament mentions a marriage is a union between a man and woman.
Another part mentions no sex before marriage.
Put the two together it’s obvious
Madmogwai
Madmogwai
God created Man, if they get sick or die or commit a heinous act it’s not Gods fault.
So he created an imperfect being subject to ill health?
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
What about the other seven marriages that God permitted, which are also mentioned in the Bible?
Madmogwai
Madmogwai
Obviously yes,and obviously it was no accident and was done for a reason.
Unlike some I’m not so arrogant as to question Gods reason and pretend to understand what is clearly beyond my understanding.
That would actually be my main question to any creator god. What's the script with childhood leukemia?
Doesn't alike a loving caring god to me.
As an aside, i am quite partial to the band Mogwai. Don't know if you've heard of them
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
When anti-LGBT evangelical Christians rant about the sanctity of marriage, they tend to ignore a massive elephant in the room, which is that the Bible clarifies EIGHT different marriages that God permitted during biblical times. And when they insist that God is pro-life and cite specific verses they believe back up their claim, they never mention Numbers 5:11–31 and Exodus 21:22–25.
According to Numbers 5:11–31, if a husband suspected his pregnant wife of adultery but there were no witnesses, then he would bring her before the priest to be tested in order to determine if she was guilty of adultery. She was brought "before the Lord" and required to drink bitter water, which contained ink and dust from the tabernacle floor. Before she drank this toxic water, the priest would write down the accusations against her and then wash the ink off in the water. It was believed that if she had guilty of adultery, then her stomach would swell and she would miscarry. If she was innocent, then nothing would happen and she would be free to go.
According to Exodus 21:22–25, if two people were fighting and one of them accidentally hit a pregnant woman and she miscarried, then the person who hit her was required to pay whatever the woman’s husband demanded and the court allowed. But if the woman was seriously injured and she died, then it was an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. The court decided that it was a property crime if the pregnant woman miscarried, but it was murder if she died, and the person responsible for her death was also killed.
As evidenced by the two biblical passages cited, the God of the Bible not only sanctioned an abortion and a miscarriage, but he also ordered the slaughter of Amalekite infants and children (1 Samuel 15:2-3). And there is also Psalm 137:9, which says, "Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks," and there was the global flood, where God kills every living person on earth (including children, infants, and the unborn), with the exception of Noah, his wife, and his sons. If the Bible is accurate, then I think it's obvious to see by these examples I've provided that the Christian God is definitely not pro-life. Quite the opposite, IMO.
Madmogwai
Madmogwai
What about the other seven marriages that God permitted, which are also mentioned in the Bible?
Thank you for further proving my point, all 7 are between a man and a woman.
Madmogwai
Madmogwai
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
Not quite. David and Jonathan weren't married, but it is believed by some people that they had a homosexual relationship.
1 Samuel 20:41: 41 After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.
What is out of harmony with the harmonious 66 books is omitted.
The 66 have corresponding cross-reference verses and passages.
If you have a gnostic verse in mind we can see if it corresponds with the 66.