ITT: Religion

[Facetious]

blueblaze is fun

[Noah]

Doh!

[RednaZ]

I found it quoteworthy that you made a mistake in a post that were outlining another mistake.

I find it quoteworthy that you made a mistake in a post that was outlining another mistake in a post that was outlining a mistake!

[Noah]

I found it quote wordy that you made a mistake at mistakes.

I found it quoteworthy that you made a mistake in a post that were outlining another mistake.

[Galleleo]

oh and not to mention the bible was written by a bunch of flawed people who were capable of making fmistakes and projecting biases

I found it quote wordy that you made a mistake at mistakes.

[Suh]

How do you believe in Jesus Christ, God the Father, and the Holy Ghost, yet not take the Bible as for the most part literally? If you can't take the Bible literally, how do you believe that Jesus Christ was really here? Tell me how does one believe in this manner?

hmm taking a translation literally, doesnt seem smart



english

"why believe everything you read?"

to greek

"γιατί θεωρήστε όλα που διαβάζετε;"

back to english

"why you consider all that you read?"

sure the message gets across (thats all most christians really need), but the literal meaning (the one you subscribe to) has been completely distorted.

i know the example is a bit weak as its all i can really be bothered to do.


oh and not to mention the bible was written by a bunch of flawed people who were capable of making fmistakes and projecting biases

[thesearcher]

How do you believe in Jesus Christ, God the Father, and the Holy Ghost, yet not take the Bible as for the most part literally? If you can't take the Bible literally, how do you believe that Jesus Christ was really here? Tell me how does one believe in this manner?

the bible describes heaven as a big golden cube, it even gives measurments!!

you take that shit literally?

[Galleleo]

Super, we all think you are cool.

[Exalt]

honestly blueblaze, your retarded. Your going on like a preacher but you have no credibility in any of it, just a believe through whatever church you go to and for all any real christian knows, you could be taught wrong. Its not very hard to realize a lot of supposed christians are full of shit in what they believe, maybe you are one of them? And you cant force believe on people, and the reality of it is no one is in this game searching for religion. your doing this in the wrong place at the wrong time and it just makes christians look worse in their eyes. Stop being retarded and play the game, preach in your church, or to your friends, or whoever will listen, but not here. Theres always a place and a time for it, and this is definately not it. The kicker is I am a christian, I just dont support how your doing things, at all.

[Noah]

Superted on the other hand, is a christian that I have nothing against. Why? He doesn't tell others what to believe and what not.

Amen.

Edit: Superted, in your case there's nothing wrong with defending your faith, don't worry about it.

[RednaZ]

And his Jesus avatar is really hawt :wub:

[Da1andonly]

Superted on the other hand, is a christian that I have nothing against. Why? He doesn't tell others what to believe and what not.

[Superted]

Sigh, everytime I defend my faith in one of these posts (I never attack anyone elses, not that I'm directly aware of at least) I feel as though my reputation is getting worse.

I don't take the bible literally for two reasons; firstly I don't speak ancient hebrew and I don't trust those that translated it and furthermore. Words that have been translated have several meanings, I don't trust that the translators picked the exact word used in context.

Secondly, it was written for idiots. No offense. It was written so that everybody could understand however there are things that are just not explainable in simple words, or that would have sounded realistic for the time it was "published". If the bible spoke of the exact scientific process of the bigbang in Genesis 1, do you think the bible would be as popular now? Probably not.

As for Jesus, there's sufficient evidence outside of the Bible that tells us he existed.

Now, do you realise you're pissing a lot of people off with your christian threads?

[D1st0rt]

Well first of all I pretty much disregard most of the Old Testament. Testament roughly means 'covenant' or 'contract' and since a new one was drawn up I don't see a whole lot of point to the old one since it was mostly just setup anyways. Then you just have to remember that Jesus spoke in parables and the problem of literal interpretation goes away.

[Ephemeral]

How do you believe in Jesus Christ, God the Father, and the Holy Ghost, yet not take the Bible as for the most part literally? If you can't take the Bible literally, how do you believe that Jesus Christ was really here? Tell me how does one believe in this manner?

So you mean to tell me that if God reviewed the current version of the King James bible (a collection of stories that MAN put together), He would say, "hey, you guys got this is EXACTLY right, no further revisions are needed." Man has not gotten anything else right, why would anyone believe that somehow we got the bible right?

Even you say "for the most part". What the hell does "for the most part" mean? You either take it literally or not. And if you do not, then who decides which parts to take literally? You? Me? The Pope? Any other MEN?