When I was a street preacher, I used to remind other Christians of 1 Peter 3:15–16 whenever they treated atheists with contempt, which frequently included false accusations of hating and/or rebelling against God, as well as extremely sarcastic remarks whenever any atheist attempted to reason...
Saying you keep the Commandments and the covenants, and keeping them is not the same. Most Christians claim to keep the Commandments, but then again, do they? Or do they keep the commandments of the Beast with two horns like a lamb, the emperor Constantine, and his Trinity dogma of having 3...
I could use the same argument to prove that there is no God connected to Corinthians.
Premise: God is not the author of confusion.
Observation: people believe and believed in thousands of mutually contradicting gods. Even within the same belief bubble. A theological mess.
Conclusion: either the...
This is incorrect. God is three persons with one divine essence. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not of the essence of God. They are God. All three persons are God in their own right.
Christianity does teach that the Trinity is a mystery beyond human reason. But it is not that hard to understand...
I gotta say: this approach has a lot of appeal: "God is not the author of confusion, therefore if I find something in Christianity confusing, it must be false."
Let's apply this across the board. I knlw there's lots of stuff that I find confusing in the Bible; I'm glad we can throw them all out. ;)
Think of the Trinity this way. There are two aspects to God:
1. God as in immanence which is a cataphatic or affirmative way to the divine as in "God is Love", "God is Beauty", "God is Good."
2. God as in transcendence which is unknowable, infinite, and beyond any human comprehension.
3. #1...
The Old Testament is wrong. In fact, the Old Testament is wrong about lots of things, it is best to ignore it and rely on the New Testament instead.
However, the trinity does create confusion because of this three in one doctrine. There are actually three separate Gods who work together.
BTW...
According to the Bible, God is omniscient (Psalm 139:1–6; Isaiah 46:9–10; 1 John 3:20), omnipotent (Psalm 147:5; Job 42:2; Daniel 2:21), and omnipresent (Psalm 139:7–10; Isaiah 40:12; Colossians 1:17). And also, according to Genesis 6:6-7, God regretted creating not only mankind but also every...
The one good example you brought is from Psalms 137. The others have explanations written into the story which do not match your description.
Regarding morality, the point is: no one is above the law. That's the message.
i do not agree with the authenticity of what are chroniclers not Prophets or Messengers and even the author for the passages on the Amalekites is unknown. So we cannot say these are authored by God. Here is one explanation regarding the stories of chroniclers.
As to that which hath been...
There are a plethora of biblical stories of a sadistic, psychopathic, and genocidal God who commanded the Israelites to wipe other nations off the face of the earth. According to the Bible, God commanded the Israelites to wipe the Amalikites off the face of the earth (Exodus 17:8–13; 1 Samuel...
So please show us the gospel of Mark traced back to its original version.
Re the contradictions you don't have to read the opinions. Just read the contradictions. Such as
"And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend." Exodus 33:11
And
“… I have seen God...
Why do the Christians accuse Jesus of writing the NT Bible?
“The trinity is false – I have proof “
paarsurrey post #18, thread, “ The trinity is false – I have proof ” .
paarsurrey says: Sure Trinity is false, please, did Jesus- the truthful Israelite Messiah, ever use the word Trinity or...
My theory is connected to the basic imagery of God creating the heavens and earth in six days and rested on the seventh day. The question is how long did God rest? While God rested, who was in charge of his creation?
If you look at the first six days of creation, these are epic caliber...
God is not causing me to suffer, suffering is just inherent in a material world.
"I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me...