Context is king when it comes to the bible or any other use of language. The quotes are out of context and do not support the points being put forth. I do find that insulting. When one passage is explained as to why it is not necessary to conclude that it is an outright contradiction, but only an apparent one, it is ignored and another one is thrown down in it's place. The problem is obviously not a lack of evidence for God, but rather it is the suppression of what is clear.
All this niggly piggly crap about contradictions in the Bible is just a dodge, and a bunch of red herrings, designed to avoid personal responsibility to a personal God for all the sins we have committed in our lives.
"I am less concerned with a God that sends disease and pestilence, plagues, and floods upon living breathing creatures and people in this world , and more tempted to seek out a God that is more benevolent and all-embracing and enlightened than that."
Your god is "disease and pestilence, plagues, and floods" Do you read your own books? Benevolence and morality is simply a luxury that your philosophy cannot afford. It's all an illusion, I thought you of all people would understand that. You are obviously trapped by desire, or maybe your just wrong!
I don't demand that you believe as I do, but God has revealed Himself to be one to whom reverence and fear is an appropriate response. Any fisherman that does not fear the sea is a fool. How much more are we that do not fear the one who created the universe.
You should be afraid, you should be very afraid.
Greg |
