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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
But He's not anymore.
If the god you worship can send asteroids and plagues our way, read our thoughts and guide everything in the universe, why can't he just change the text in the bible? Why can't the actual bible on my bookshelf just have the words change to reflect modern times and make it obvious how He should be worshipped and how we should behave? A trick like that is nothing compared to simultaneously reading the minds of 6 billion people, and controlling all aspects of our lives.
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Why? That would be dishonest and unproductive. If one wants to know God it is there as an accurate history of His interaction with man. You don't need 4 years of seminary to know the Mosaic's law place in history. It is the
old covenant. There is now a
new covenant. The old covenant was fulfilled and the Jews are under a new covenant; The new covenant has been extended to the rest of man kind.
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
People that believe strongly in the book kill people who strongly believe in a slightly different interpretation of that same book. I won't bother getting into the ways that it is imperfect, but it obviously is imperfect. It should be perfect. No tricks or riddles, none of this "it was written in a different time". It should be timeless and shouldn't need defending. A book written by an omniscient being for people to follow forever shouldn't go stale when some guy invents a microscope a thousand years later, or when sensible people realize that slavery and rape are wrong.
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People can cherry pick passages to misrepresent the message or even God. You and your friends cherry pick passages to show God in a bad light. Others do so to manipulate those who are easily manipulated. People often tend to fall into the trap of following a leader or a denomination rather than measuring what they hear by what is found in scriptures. Shamefully the average Christian has never even read through their holy book. Of those who have many aren't looking for a comprehensive understanding but, rather confirmation of something they already have concluded to be true.
Jesus was once asked to say what was the greatest commandment. The question was asked by a Jewish religious leader in the hope of trapping him. Jesus' answer was that the greatest commandment was to
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Jesus said that on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. All the Jewish religious leader could do was agree. My point is this: You are what? A failed Catholic. Yet you pretend to have enough understanding of scriptures to condemn the old covenant as both irrelevant and cruel. You lack perspective. Your looking at selective trees and missing the forest. You need to read the old testament without an agenda. When Harper or any politician gives a speech you can divide the listeners into 4 groups. One group is listening to see what they can find wrong with the speech; The second group loves the politician and is looking to see what he can find right with the speech; The third guy is just mad that this speech has interfered with his TV programing; Finally there is a small fourth group who is just trying to listen to and understand what is being said. If your looking at scripture as a member of any group other than the third one you are going to find in them exactly what you are looking for.