On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:31:04 -0500, Pastor Frank wrote:
> "skyeyes" <skyeyes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:1194390692.623088.269890@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Nov 5, 9:18 pm, "rockymt" <rock...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> listen to me dear friends. You need not scrutinize these words below.
>>> Go
>>> to the Word of God, and see for yourself.
>>
>> I've read the bible, rocky-me-dear. I read it through the first time
>> the year I turned eight. I read it through every year thereafter until
>> I was 22. I have read several different translations, including the
>> KJV and the Douay. I have read it in German, Spanish, and Demotic
>> (Modern) Greek.
>> The bible is nothing but a hodge-podge of Bronze and Iron Age
>> mythology. It isn't factual. It isn't historical. It qualifies as
>> literature, had some interesting (if lugubrious) poetry and some pretty
>> nice soft ****, but it doesn't qualify as "true."
>>
>>> Be slow to speak and judge; quick to listen and heed. Don't
>>> over-rationalize, don't over-intellectualize.
>>
>> Why? Rationality is the most human of human characteristics.
>> Rationality makes us what we are. To deny rationality is to deny our
>> humanity. Urging us to deny our rationality means that you're playing
>> into the old, old con game of "don't think, just do as I tell you."
>> Well, **** you.
>> If your beliefs cannot stand up to reason, don't blame reason. Blame
>> the silliness of your beliefs.
>>
> Our Christian "God is love" (1 John 4:8,16) become fully
> manifested
> in
> Jesus Christ giving His life for us sinners on the cross of Calvary. We
> therefore know our God and have seen Him. (Jesus in John 14:6-10)
> Atheists don't know our God and therefore cannot see Him, (Jesus in
> John 3:3) You have to be an atheist to look for "reasonable" and
> "rational" love. LOL
Yeah, very funny. Why is this god of yours suddenly all too human when
it comes to the tricky questions?
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