How Real Is Christianity?

Whatsitoosit · 04-10-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

why would you take what I said as an insult? the person's creator gave them free will to believe in their God or not. To choose whether they want to follow his teachings or not. what's so wrong about that?

"blind ignorance" was the insult I was referring to. With the analogy I gave before, to just ignore the obvious is to disregard one of our most important human characteristics... "reason". Every time I see verses quoted from the bible the first thing I think of is some power hungry guy in a robe trying to figure out ways of controlling the people around him. Today we call that "the government" and we don't need books to get the message across... today we have the "media". So many aspects of the bible don't coincide with the world we live in today... if it were truly the word of God, wouldn't it be timeless? The parables are good for teaching values and morals for anyone looking to be enlightened by them but so much of the superstitious/spooky wording almost reads like ghost stories.

I know, I'm going to hell... and you're all coming with me

djchameleon · 04-10-2009, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Whatsitoosit

"blind ignorance" was the insult I was referring to. With the analogy I gave before, to just ignore the obvious is to disregard one of our most important human characteristics... "reason". Every time I see verses quoted from the bible the first thing I think of is some power hungry guy in a robe trying to figure out ways of controlling the people around him. Today we call that "the government" and we don't need books to get the message across... today we have the "media". So many aspects of the bible don't coincide with the world we live in today... if it were truly the word of God, wouldn't it be timeless? The parables are good for teaching values and morals for anyone looking to be enlightened by them but so much of the superstitious/spooky wording almost reads like ghost stories which makes a lot of sense considering they couldn't tune into Jerry Springer back then

I know, I'm going to hell... and your all coming with me

Oh okay I understand what you are saying now.

Yeah my reasoning for not agreeing with the Bible is that I believe the people that translated it from the scrolls to the current version we have today....didn't translate everything properly. They had the power to add/omit whatever they wanted.

All of the verses in the bible are open to interpretation also. Ten people can read the same verse and get ten different opinions of what the verse meant to them, that is why I hate when people try to quote verses to me.

Also another thing is that like you said, some of the practices in the bible are outdated and people don't really interpret it in a way that connects with today's day and age.

sleepy jack · 04-10-2009, 01:55 PM

They forgot the disclaimer stating it was a work of fiction.

djchameleon · 04-10-2009, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Wayfarer

why?

The reason I think that is because there is a possibility that error could have taken place don't you think?

Just like how they left out books that were supposed to be in the old testament and we just found out about them recently.

djchameleon · 04-10-2009, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Wayfarer

there's also a possibility that there exists a gargantuan spectral octopus with wings that follows you around every day and plants invisible seeds of cancer up the arses of your family members whenever the opportunity arises. doesn't rly mean there's any reason to believe it.

oh wow....that's a horrible example especially for someone that's in your position of this debate

of course there is a possibility that the creature exists but since I don't believe it exists and there is no scientific evidence of my family members having cancer......then I don't believe it and it doesn't exist.

sleepy jack · 04-10-2009, 02:45 PM

They're invisible seeds of cancer of course there's no evidence for them in your family members.

djchameleon · 04-10-2009, 02:47 PM

invisible seeds can be detected with the proper tests though

sleepy jack · 04-10-2009, 02:48 PM

No they can't they're magical seeds planted by an all powerful being. It's impossible for science to disprove their existence.

djchameleon · 04-10-2009, 03:10 PM

well I don't believe in said seeds but I choose not to believe in that silly powerful being

sleepy jack · 04-10-2009, 03:16 PM

Why don't you believe in it?

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