If you were secure enough in your Christian beliefs than reading about other religions or beliefs wouldn't harm you.
Exactly.
If you were secure enough in your Christian beliefs than reading about other religions or beliefs wouldn't harm you.
I told you that we doubters are most impressed by facts and that we most certainly do base our decisions on matters like this on facts. But you already know this. Clearly, you don't really have any facts and are just trying to string us along. Sorry but you are way too transparent.
Starry Eyed:
Again with the insulting. Well, peace be unto you, my friend.
If I make a list of Quaker, Buddhist, atheist, New Age, Wiccan books will you read them?
Miss Chicken:
That's not the same thing. That's like asking a gourmet chef to start working at McDonalds. Why would he create (and fill his mind with) destructive and disgusting garbage for people when he knows he can create something extremely healthy and tasty for people?
Wow. That's a lot of hostility for just sharing my personal belief.
Socrates said:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
My biggest 'quibble' with Christianity is those Christians that believe theirs is the only right path and that all other religions and beliefs are evil.
I see a lot of good in Buddhism and Jainism, far more good than I see in Christianity as it now stands though I doubt very much that Jesus would approve of way Christianity is nowadays or what has been done in its name.
Among some unprogrammed Quakers there is a belief that Jesus (or the Inner Light) is in everyone and that when Jesus said "‘I am the way, the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through Me" he meant that everyone should follow his Inner Light. this means that other religions can be followed without going against the Christ within so long as it doesn't go against their Inner Light. Even atheism is acceptable so long as the atheist is doing what he genuinely believe is the right thing for him to do.
My biggest 'quibble' with Christianity is those Christians that believe theirs is the only right path and that all other religions and beliefs are evil.
I see a lot of good in Buddhism and Jainism, far more good than I see in Christianity as it now stands though I doubt very much that Jesus would approve of way Christianity is nowadays or what has been done in its name.
Among some unprogrammed Quakers there is a belief that Jesus (or the Inner Light) is in everyone and that when Jesus said "‘I am the way, the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through Me" he meant that everyone should follow his Inner Light. this means that other religions can be followed without going against the Christ within so long as it doesn't go against their Inner Light. Even atheism is acceptable so long as the atheist is doing what he genuinely believe is the right thing for him to do.
I've known Atheists with better moral values and virtues than a lot of Christians.
I've known Atheists with better moral values and virtues than a lot of Christians.
Urg. This is very insulting. And you know it.
You make a show of wishing peace unto people, but at the same time your approach is ignorant, insulting and confrontational. You speak of the futility of speaking with people who hold different beliefs or no belief at all, and yet here you are. You say that you do not wish to continue this conversation, yet you keep replying to everybody with increasingly insulting assertions.
I supposed you were simply naive, but now I am convinced that you are indeed pulling our leg.
I have read Flat Earth publications just out of interest. In fact the wife of the Flat Earth Society was herself an Australian. It did me no harm to read their 'propaganda'. I have also read books on the existence of Bigfoot, the Little People etc
I have also read the Koran, the Bible (KJV and Good News version), the Book of Mormon, the mythology of various cultures etc
If you were secure enough in your Christian beliefs than reading about other religions or beliefs wouldn't harm you.
LutherSloan -- I wish I'd hung on to an e-mail I received a couple of weeks ago that pointed out loads of conflicting bible verses; however, I can tell you're one of those so blinded by your beliefs that you'll ignore the proof staring you in the face.
I could start with asking why you pick and choose what you believe, at which point you would tell me that you don't. I would then counter that you do, because you aren't practicing what the bible preaches. Again, you would counter that claiming I am in the wrong, at which point I would ask you when you're going to attend the next stoning of someone who works on the Sabbath -- at which point it will just get ugly.
The thing is that Christians have actually been killed for their belief in the Bible.
This is an exhaustive online defense behind supposed Biblical contradictions...
LutherSloan -- I wish I'd hung on to an e-mail I received a couple of weeks ago that pointed out loads of conflicting bible verses; however, I can tell you're one of those so blinded by your beliefs that you'll ignore the proof staring you in the face.
John Picard:
This is an exhaustive online defense behind supposed Biblical contradictions...
http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/bible.htm#INDEX
The thing is that Christians have actually been killed for their belief in the Bible.I could start with asking why you pick and choose what you believe, at which point you would tell me that you don't. I would then counter that you do, because you aren't practicing what the bible preaches. Again, you would counter that claiming I am in the wrong, at which point I would ask you when you're going to attend the next stoning of someone who works on the Sabbath -- at which point it will just get ugly.
Anyways, just to let you know: I am wishing love and peace unto you all my friends. I pray that you look more into the Bible and take God at His Word. I know that if you do. It will be an amazing thing.
Yes. But it is redundant to study something you already know the core beliefs about. I have already read from different sources on the belief systems of these religions. And they do nothing but either attack the Bible or offer no return on investment (like any normal thing in life that has value).
Yes. But it is redundant to study something you already know the core beliefs about. I have already read from different sources on the belief systems of these religions. And they do nothing but either attack the Bible or offer no return on investment (like any normal thing in life that has value).
Yes. But it is redundant to study something you already know the core beliefs about. I have already read from different sources on the belief systems of these religions. And they do nothing but either attack the Bible or offer no return on investment (like any normal thing in life that has value).
I get it. You believe in the Christian Bible and God because you're going to GET something for it.
Because doing the Right thing in life isn't as important as being REWARDED in the After Life.
Sorry. I try to do the Right thing in life because it's the right thing, I don't expect to GET anything because of it.
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