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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (38475)	10/12/2003 11:19:31 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 59480

what I have found is that when a christian starts doubting and questioning God's Word....it is usually because that person has to find a reason to justify their own particular sin. I agree with you here, but this doesn't contradict what I said earlier... I think people preach to reassure themselves... God's word is not meaningless quotes and references. If you will go back and understand some of the history, the scribes and writers of the day and such were VERY VERY meticulous about what was written. That and the words passed down from mouth to ear is all they had, and it had to be accurate. This is what one would like to believe, but there have been so many rewrites and re-translations over the many thousands of years, and often enough there have been misguided agendas along the way to bias the text one way or another to fit the politics of the time... this would easily explain the apparent contradictions in the current English translations... these contradictions are so quickly and so eagerly pointed out by the unschooled critics who serve only to make a mockery of the precious and lofty Spiritual lessons contained within the deeper meanings of the text... it is for these reasons these rich and wonderful lessons go unheeded and ignored... But I will agree with you about one thing...it does seem most people do not care about it...and that is a tragedy. For sure... and by removing God from our schools, from our Pledge to our country, and from our courts, it removes the very notion of sin from our vocabulary... if sin is removed, then there are no absolute truths, and right and wrong become only relative terms, i.e., if it feels good, do it... this makes it easier for people to justify the wrong they do, and they do what they want without regard to the consequences of their actions... indeed, the removal of God from our vocabulary and from our thinking is surely a terrible tragedy, especially when our culture is already starving from Spiritual malnutrition... GZ