In my many years as an atheist, I read the Bible in order to "see what all the fuss is about".
To me, at that time, it was easily dismissed as nonsense, and those who took it seriously were deluded. I read it in one year from Genesis to Revelation and carried around in my head the many...
I can assure you that there is nothing I ‘have to believe’. How silly. Nothing stops me from thinking, investigating, wondering etc.
I think freely, using all of my senses, all of my intelligence. I regard doubts as encouraging and healthy. I am not required to have perfect, flawless...
:rolleyes: And who are you to tell God that He is bound by what is (to you) logically impossible?
Only those who have made logic their god would make such a statement.
This:
Though there are gods and lords aplenty, for us there is ONLY ONE GOD, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit".
is what Christians 'hear'.
Your version--
Though there are Gods and Lords aplenty, for us there is ONLY ONE GOD.
I don’t think of you as a freethinking upstart; those are your words, and I have no doubt that you enjoy portraying yourself as such.
The thing is, I don’t think you are thinking freely.
You have tied yourself to the belief that slavery is always wrong, in whatever societal circumstances...
:D Unhappily for you, it actually is true, Soapy. You have been deceived.
The true Christian hears this:
"Though there are gods and lords aplenty, for us there is ONLY ONE GOD, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit".