Have you ever heard the old saying, "we can do this the easy way or we can do it the hard way"? The easy way is preferred, but the hard way will get the job done as well.10CC wrote:Umm no it doesn't.Zetesis Apistia wrote:Some people don't respond to love. In fact some people take advantage of it. Certainly love should provoke a man to good works but this is often not the case. Some people must be corralled by fear. It is the only music they will dance to. Love is the preferred method, but if that doesn't work the rod will.10CC wrote:
You think so?
Do your children fear you?
Do you honestly believe that fear is a greater force for good than love?
That is not what your jesus teaches.
It is though what your god teaches.
Are you sure they are the same?
Is the Bible the "Word of God"?
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Re: Is the Bible the "Word of God"?
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Post #222No it won't.Zetesis Apistia wrote:Have you ever heard the old saying, "we can do this the easy way or we can do it the hard way"? The easy way is preferred, but the hard way will get the job done as well.10CC wrote:Umm no it doesn't.Zetesis Apistia wrote:Some people don't respond to love. In fact some people take advantage of it. Certainly love should provoke a man to good works but this is often not the case. Some people must be corralled by fear. It is the only music they will dance to. Love is the preferred method, but if that doesn't work the rod will.10CC wrote:
You think so?
Do your children fear you?
Do you honestly believe that fear is a greater force for good than love?
That is not what your jesus teaches.
It is though what your god teaches.
Are you sure they are the same?
I'll tell you everything I've learned...................
and LOVE is all he said
-The Boy With The Moon and Star On His Head-Cat Stevens.
and LOVE is all he said
-The Boy With The Moon and Star On His Head-Cat Stevens.
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So you justify your intolerance, but you condemn say intolerance of homosexuals. Is that a true statement?Master Spade wrote: Good to see that 66% of posters say the bible is NOT the word of god!!!
Bad news: 33% STILL believe it is, even though they can NOT justify all the atrocities in that "Holy" book!
In the US, the number of non-religious people has more than doubled from 14.3 million in 1990 to 29.4 million in 2001; their proportion has grown from just eight percent of the total in 1990 to over fourteen percent in 2001. So there IS hope. EDUCATION is what's making the difference!! Hopefully this trend continues at an Increased speed!!
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Re: Is the Bible the "Word of God"?
Post #226If you are wrong and there is a God then you will be at his mercy in the end. Of course you dismiss that but you have no basis for your dismissal.10CC wrote:No it won't.Zetesis Apistia wrote:Have you ever heard the old saying, "we can do this the easy way or we can do it the hard way"? The easy way is preferred, but the hard way will get the job done as well.10CC wrote:Umm no it doesn't.Zetesis Apistia wrote:Some people don't respond to love. In fact some people take advantage of it. Certainly love should provoke a man to good works but this is often not the case. Some people must be corralled by fear. It is the only music they will dance to. Love is the preferred method, but if that doesn't work the rod will.10CC wrote:
You think so?
Do your children fear you?
Do you honestly believe that fear is a greater force for good than love?
That is not what your jesus teaches.
It is though what your god teaches.
Are you sure they are the same?
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Post #230First, I have noted "yes".
But my vote holds specifications, as under all other considerations of God, the words can't imply anything less than perfection.
So, well knowing that the Bible contains much contradictions, I suggest still, with the imperfect human hand on it, by these troubles and other, that "a kind of core" still loves up to the Bible that has (by roundtrip) brought us God in the first place.
The roundtrip is God's word to human beings, a bit tumbled to the mind receiving it, then the word of God sends human beings back to God and God's Heaven. Cool?
But my vote holds specifications, as under all other considerations of God, the words can't imply anything less than perfection.
So, well knowing that the Bible contains much contradictions, I suggest still, with the imperfect human hand on it, by these troubles and other, that "a kind of core" still loves up to the Bible that has (by roundtrip) brought us God in the first place.
The roundtrip is God's word to human beings, a bit tumbled to the mind receiving it, then the word of God sends human beings back to God and God's Heaven. Cool?
I'm cool! - Stronger Religion every day! Also by "mathematical Religion", the eternal forms, God closing the door on corrupt humanity, possibly!