Should we be disrespectful towards the Bible?

[Trailblazer]

I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT! Clearly you don't!

Yet another continuously repeated subjective egocentric claim of belief based only on what you believe.

 

[Trailblazer]

I am getting tired of your mindless, error-filled posts. You are close to be on "ignore".

Why does everyone on the forum need to know who you are "putting on ignore?"
If you want to put someone on ignore someone just do it.

Clearly, you want to ignore anyone who disagrees with you.....
If you put anyone else on ignore you won't have anyone left to talk to.

 

[shunyadragon]

This is the era of artificial intelligence. I believe that you do not really exist, that you're a machine and not a human. Can you prove to me that you actually exist?

From my perspective you are a recording and repeating the same lines over and over.You apparently did not see the eclipse.

***Staff Edit***

 

[jimb]

From my perspective you are a recording and repeating the same lines over and over.You apparently did not see the eclipse.

don't be an idiot and respond coherently.

a) FYI, I did see the eclipse.
b) I have reported your post for making a personal slur.

 

[shunyadragon]

a) FYI, I did see the eclipse.
b) I have reported your post for making a personal slur

I have reported your post for making a personal slur.

 

[soulsurvivor]

Who is to say God ever did it?
Men speaking for God is not a reliable way to know what God did.

I agree that the OT is not at all the word of God

 

[1213]

There is a growing consensus that the neurobiology underlying our moral sense and the moral norms of any given culture were genetically and culturally selected for the benefits of cooperation they produced1,2,7. That is, behaviors motivated by our moral sense and enforced by cultural moral norms are elements of cooperation strategies, notably reciprocity strategies, that solve social problems arising from unbridled self=interest. Many of the contradictions and bizarreness of cultural moral norms can be explained by differences in who one ought to cooperate with3, who one can ignore or even exploit8, and markers of membership6 in these ingroups and out-groups (markers such as food and sex taboos, circumcision, hair and dress styles, sacred objects and ideas, and sacred authorities).No matter how flawed and contradictory, our morally sanctioned behaviors have been adequate to make us the incredibly successful social species we are. Might recognition and conscious application may vary, but a basically and fundamentally similar.

The first is a moral universal that prescribes what everyone ‘ought’ to do across all cultures, a morality that is universally binding. This is a common understanding of “moral universal” in philosophy.
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Interesting, by what I see, when people reject God, they slowly regress into savagery.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

FAITH IS NOT BELIEF, IT IS CERTAINTY.

(and now he's shouting)

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Men speaking for God is not a reliable way to know what God did.

Sorry if you heard a loud noise - that was my irony meter exploding.

 

[shunyadragon]

Interesting, by what I see, when people reject God, they slowly regress into savagery.

Failure to respond,

Still waiting . . ;

 

[Trailblazer]

Sorry if you heard a loud noise - that was my irony meter exploding.

No need for an irony meter. I don't believe in 'men' who speak for God.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

No need for an irony meter. I don't believe in 'men' who speak for God.

And here's the cue for some tortured rationalization frok you for how the men who speak for God who you deem to be "messengers" aren't men who speak for God.

 

[Trailblazer]

And here's the cue for some tortured rationalization frok you for how the men who speak for God who you deem to be "messengers" aren't men who speak for God.

Messengers of God are men but they are more than men. My point was that the authors of the Bible were ONLY men.

I will spare you the tortured explanation unless you ask for it.

How would anyone expect to get information about God if not from a human being. I am waiting for an answer, but make it rational.

 

[shunyadragon]

"So circular it bites you in the butt"? Is that from Plato?

FAITH IS NOT BELIEF, IT IS CERTAINTY.

Oxford languages

Faith -strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Faith offers no more certainty beyond what you subjectively believe is certain

So subjective and circular it bites you in the butt.

 

[jimb]

Oxford languages

Faith -strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Faith offers no more certainty beyond what you subjectively believe is certain

So subjective and circular it bites you in the butt.

I believe how the Bible clearly defines faith. Again, "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see."

It is foolishness to try to get spiritual answers from a dictionary!

Your adolescent choice of words -- it bites you in the butt -- clearly shows your maturity.

It is sad that you, without any spiritual understanding, try to explain to others about faith. You clearly are ignorant about spiritual matters.

Read my "signature" below carefully...

 

[ppp]

I believe how the Bible clearly defines faith. Again, "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see."

Of what value is that definition?

 

[shunyadragon]

I believe how the Bible clearly defines faith. Again, "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see."

It is foolishness to try to get spiritual answers from a dictionary!

Your adolescent choice of words -- it bites you in the butt -- clearly shows your maturity.

It is sad that you, without any spiritual understanding, try to explain to others about faith. You clearly are ignorant about spiritual matters.

Read my "signature" below carefully...

You fail to understand it is circular that your beliefs define your beliefs. this fails to communicate with others that do not believe as you do.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Messengers of God are men but they are more than men. My point was that the authors of the Bible were ONLY men.

I will spare you the tortured explanation unless you ask for it.

How would anyone expect to get information about God if not from a human being.

I suppose pulling theology out of one's butt is "getting information about God from a human being" in a manner of speaking.

I am waiting for an answer, but make it rational.

I don't think it's possible to get rational information about God from any source. I don't think the idea (or rather the family of ideas that all share the name "God") is rational to begin with.

 

[jimb]

Of what value is that definition?

People often ask about faith and the Bible gives the answer. It is very often not what people think faith is.

 

[jimb]

You fail to understand it is circular that your beliefs define your beliefs. this fails to communicate with others that do not believe as you do.

If you don't understand what I write, that is your problem, not mine. You have closed your mind; you clearly refuse to learn anything.