Know it all.
Shaman.
It always troubles me when anyone declares others as liars and their words as lies because it demonstrates a weakness within your self and not in me.I could point out a number of dishonest statements you make but the one to be pointed out here is so semantically slick, I can not help but emphasize it above all other slight of hand efforts you make to abolish God from the Bible.
Jesus said: "Out of the heart the mouth speaks" which goes for Internet forum postings too, and it means that even when a person does lie then their heart is wishing the words were true. This is why dishonesty and telling lies hurts the liar more so then the lie harms anyone lied to.
As such it is virtuous to not only be honest one-self but to always believe what others say because each person's own words are our own condemnation or our praise.
Even when we know the words to be dishonest it is the virtue to respond as in belief of the words because that damns the lie into the liar.
It was another poster and their website link which said that God and the Bible condones such things and not I. In fact I say the Bible and God does not condone such evil violent crimes.Here it isI
I do believe most of humanity equate God with the Bible as even Atheist see it as such an equation and they reject both.See! You equate God with the Bible. If you discredit the Bible, you assume God is discredited. You might say that is not what you were saying but it is in fact what you did say. If you did not mean to say this and the fact that you did say it, proves that you have given very little logical or philosophical consideration to your particular brand of Christianity.
I myself like the Bible even though parts of it is twisted and or untrue, but "God" is not inside the Bible.
I have no idea of what is my world view, and I truly doubt that I would share the world view that people take out of the Bible.Just what is your world view? We need to know this before we can judge what you say to see if it offers anything of value. Do you accept the dabar or logos world view that the Bible teaches?
As to the "dabar or logos" then I understand them to mean the "spokesperson" or "speaker" as Jesus the logos is the spokesperson for the Father (God).
I adhere to all while being a member to none.Are you a materialist? Are you an atheist, humanist, or just what is your world view? You speak of a higher power, what is that in your world view? Tell us something about what you think is really real or are you trying to dupe us into some crazy new philosophy? If you do not trust the Bible, what do you trust? In other words, what is your epistemology? Communist, atheist, humanist do not have an ontological world view, do they?
So yes I am a materialist and an Atheist, a Theist, humanist, Communist, Democrat, and all religions including Islam, Buddhist, Hindu, Shaman, Wiccan, and all others.
In this claim I am very sincere as I find God all through the entire of humanity and beyond.
I do not object to you or anyone being dogmatic as I respect that, but I do not share your dogmas.Now, I will go ahead and apologize for being dogmatic and difficult with you but remember you have set yourself as a critic of the most revered book in the world. You say you are doing your criticism with science. Your world view will tell us what we need to know about your logic and science. Your science may be more superstitious than any world view known to man. We have a right to know.
It is necessary to twist as in un-twisting because people and doctrines are twisted and wrong so I try my part in un-twist-ing them.By the way, the bible does not condone those things that you point out as being evil. It does record an accurate history of evil as well as good. You do twist things, why?