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Skidd
Actually if you look at history, a belief in some kind of higher power is part of our more primitive nature, left over from a time when we knew little and needed simple answers for everything. We seem to grow out of it the more we learn and develop. So it is more against the laws of nature for one to doubt the idea of a God.
Also the Bible does not teach morality, good works and salvation. It claims to, but this is the same God who says 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' and then goes around helping his followers to kill, as well as demanding some people gets stoned to death or killed in some other gruesome fashion.
God himself is a moral vacuum. He is greedy, egotistical, abusive, cruel and easy to anger. He cares not for others, only for himself.
posted by
kooka_lives
on March 26, 2004 at 8:36 PM
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Kooka
I love debating you. You keep things interesting for our readers. Your responses are thoughful, intelligent and you absolutely cannot conceptualize God nor creation.
As I stated to you a few blogs back, I understand your disbelief. It's not natural to think the way Christians do.
Now, my comment last night to this blog perfectly illustrates this point. I made a statement to the question you posed on your blog that I felt was a perfectly good (albeit, short) answer. Turns out I confused you more. I apologize. Things that seem so natural to me and other Christians are a different world to the unbelievers.
What I meant, Kooka, was that everything one needs for worship, morality, good works and salvation in this world is given in the Bible. I didn't mean that God forbids you to look outside the Bible when viewing the physical world around you. God delights that man has an unquenchable thirst in trying to understanding what He created for us.
Skidd
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Skidd
on March 26, 2004 at 7:49 PM
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The Battle Goes On
After reading some of the discourse between you (The Battle Goes On, Mar 17) and Skidd (God Exists, Mar 15), I was inspired to post some comments in "How Much Wood Would God Chuck If God Would Chuck Wood" . (Pretty corny but it was the best I could come up with.) As I quote you I thought I should let you know.
Josephus Mole
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Josephus
on March 26, 2004 at 2:52 PM
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Or is it a misspelled word of God
like that last one, lol?
posted by
Lili
on March 26, 2004 at 11:47 AM
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If the Bible was the Wrod of God
then why, oh why, does it contradict itself?
posted by
Lili
on March 26, 2004 at 11:46 AM
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Skidd
Yet then why are we able to learn so much more than what the Bible says?
Has God decided to limit us and make it so that we are not allowed to learn beyond that one book? In that case would that not make any one who uses technology a big time sinner? Maybe the Amish are right about that, although they themselves have gone beyond the level of technology of the Bible. Only the few remain tribes in places like Africa and such, most of which have no knowledge of God, are still be pure.
This logic does not work. God did not tell us all and we know that. He is keeping way too much from us.
And that logic also helps to defend the idea that the Bible was not God's words, but man's. It gives all it can for the people of that time. They knew nothing more. It gave them simple rules to follow, an easy to understand 'creation of all things' story and some various moral lessons. But it now stands as being very outdated and lacking in explaining many things we now know that we did not then. If it were God's words then he would not have left so many gaps. There would be parts that made no sense for the people at the time, but would suddenly have a great reference to today. Or God would come back and say 'hey, here are the parts I couldn't explain then, but can now.'
posted by
kooka_lives
on March 26, 2004 at 11:44 AM
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Kooka
God doesn't present himself to us as he did in the Old Testament because all that we need to know is known, as written in the Bible.
Skidd
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Skidd
on March 26, 2004 at 12:19 AM
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