Yet, if you do not fornicate it is also a sin because you are not obeying God's law about THOU SHALT BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY ... so damned if you do, damned if you don't
Forget about the whole thing and have some fun, you only live once !
We don't.... there is little historical proof of the existence of Jesus, for that matter. It's all matter of faith, which is the whole point of religion
Right, however, mentioning those places (of which there is proof, ruins, works of art, and written registries) does not make all of the biblical narratives historically true nor accurate. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid Tale mentions Cambridge, MA, Toronto, Canada, Mexico etc ...real places...
Roman historians mention Pontius Pilates, in the same way they mention the destruction of temple....Jesus not that much, just because they found a ring with his name it doesn't mean that all the narratives of the Bible can be historically proven, nor that what is narrated factually happened as...
The problem with Libertarians is that they consider their personal freedom paramount, and it doesn´t work that way, particularly when a libertarian is a member of a wider community and his-her actions, therefore his-her freedom, will have an impact on the freedom of others. Many libertarians...
I love it...the same Trumpers who thought tariffs were a good thing are the ones to lose their jobs because of his policies... karma is certainly a byatch
It all depends on your definition of faith. Many Xtians believe not because they actually believe, but because somehow they can prove their beliefs, or at least they think so. Xtians believe in Jesus because there are religious texts that offer some historical context to the existence of Jesus...
In 10 years i have lost three family members, mother, sister and spouse. my mother had a degenerative, irreversible condition, my sister had cancer, and my spouse who had also health problems. The best way for me to deal with the grief was to understand that we are born to die, and it can happen...
It doesn't happen...anymore, in Jesus' time it did and was part of Jewish law., according to the gospels' narrative Jesus saved an adulterous woman from being stoned to death. That's why I wrote about the "fundamentalist/literalist" approach
I used an editor for my doctoral dissertation, but the editor only checked my references, checked for typos and warned me when some paragraphs were too long or not very clear. At the end I corrected everything myself, and I wrote everything myself. There is no shame in doing that, many authors...
Many Christians eat pork because they like it. Personally I love sausages, pork chops, pork ribs, pork roast, ham, and baked pork legs, in a sauce made with red wine, with pearl onions, capers, olives and bell peppers. If you want the the fundamental/literalist approach I will give it to you...
Trump made a huge display of pristine and sheer ignorance by saying that birthright, known in legal terms as Ius Soli, is observed only in the US. That makes me even more nervous because it means the the US president doesn't even bother to consult with legal experts before opening his pie hole...
My analogy maybe weak, but your reasoning is anything but sensible, not all Xtians emulate Jesus and many Xtians do certains things even if Jesus never did them according to the biblical narrative. Jesus never appointed bishops, yet Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans do, Jesus never asked his...