I want to adopt Dolash.

And Kas, it's spelt "voila" not "walla."

That is all.

Holy cow... You two are going to make me cry, i swear.

The first issue, Kas is right. Swearing by gods name is saying that you wont break this oath. Hence, dont use the lord's name in vane.

Secondly...

The bible is not freaking ment to be taken freaking literally!

Only the fundies do that, and the fundies are going to be the death of christianity if everyone thinks that they are all that there is!

Tell me, do you really belive that God would kill ANYONE? I mean, think about this! We're talking about God here! Do you truely belive that when somebody touched the arc, the laws of nature were reversed and he just died on the spot?

DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENCE AT ALL? No!

Now, I don't believe in him for personal reasons, but if he did exist, I would not worship him and spend most of my time trying to find how to scientifically copy gods' genetic makeup (assuming he's organic, since we were apparently made in his image) and copy his powers to create an alternate divine fate for humans where death does not result in some arbitrary judgement based on oft silly laws.

What? WHAT?? WHAT?!?!?!?!?

Where in heck did you get that from? If you think that "Created in his image" means created with the same genetic makeup... then you are beyond help. I mean, seriously...


Now, on a calmer-milkshake note:

Basically, dolash, i agree with what you belive moralistically. Almost. The thing is you have got the entire religion thing all screwed up in your head. You have, apparently, read the bible like a book with this in your head: "Well, if its true, its gotta be absolutely literal. So, if its true, the world was created magically out of thin air with a couple of people and a gardin of paradise, and whenever anybody touches the arc of covenent they die. Wait, they die? What? Whats this here? God flooded the world? How many people would that have killed? DANG!!! God is freaking violent, I hate this guy!"

Has it occured to you that it is scientifically impossible for the world to be created like that. The story is merely there to show gods deep omnipresence and oomnipotence which i can accept that i don't even begin to understand.

The entire bible is like that! I mean, the old testimant. The new testimant is a completely different story. It can be taken MMMMMUUUUUCCCCCHHHHH more literally. And tell me, did Jesus ever kill anyone? NO!!!!!! And he could have, too! killing the roman gaurds at the garden of jesime (sp) would have saved his skin! But he didn't!

Yes, so as i was saying, the whole old testamant is like that. Every little bit of it can be proven scientifically wrong even if just in some little way. But it all has its moralistic meaning anyway! And that is WAAAAAAY more important than what happened in 2400 B.C. Its more like... a story.

Here we go again.

Good grief. Milkshake, your post characterizes what is killing Christianity. The tolerant, willing to compromise his faith Christian who will do anything to avoid appearing different from your typical pagan. That is what will kill our faith, not the 'Fundies' as you call people who decide to stick up for what they believe, and not bend every time someone looks at them crosswise.

Sam, I guess that depends on whether you want to say viola, or walla...

Good job, kas. Go and ruin my post, why dont you?

I dont really understand what you are saying, im afraid. Im not compromising my faith at all! The bible was written by people, not God. How am i ruining christian faith?

I actually don't really want to argue, so go ahed and and answer my question if you want. Im not going to waste my time arguing with people i dont know over the internet.

:)

Basically, it's like this. Jesus referenced the first few chapters of Genesis, and Genesis is referenced throughout the New Testament. Saying that these chapters are nothing but a figment of someone's imagination is calling Jesus a liar, and erodes the entire basis for your faith. See Matthew 19:4, Acts 4:24, Acts 17:25, Romans 1:20, Colossians 1:16, 1 Timothy 2:13 for more information. The beginning of John too.

Someone asks Jesus weather he belives devorces are moral or not.

Jesus answers "Havent you read the scripture saying the Creator made people male and female? And god said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must seperate, then, what god has joined together.


Very nice, isnt it? I agree, divorce is a terrible thing. Now, as you can see, Jesus is refering to the Morals of creation. He did not say, "God created the universe, and if you dont think so, you're screwed." It has, after all, been proven that the universe started with some sort of singularity, probably, and most definately did not start with a poof and two people existed.


In acts 4:24...

You know, i dont want to go through every one of these. Im guessing the same thing will apply.


Drop it now?

It has, after all, been proven that the universe started with some sort of singularity, probably, and most definately did not start with a poof and two people existed.

Uh ... huh ... right. Whatever.

*See dolash rolling his eyes* personally, I see the bible in two ways.

One is Kas's way, which if it were true, would mean God is a jerk and a horrible person and doesn't deserve all those powers he somehow acquired.

The other is Milkshake's way, which I preffer, where the bible was written by mortals and thus is probably filled with innaccuracies and mistakes and a few exagerations. This I can accept, like those stories with morals parents tell children to help them understand why you should be good. Those are ok, if you don't take them literally and instead look for the moral meaning.

Now Jesus could quote it and not be a liar, in the same way you can quote fiction and not be a liar. If I say the elves at Helms' Deep had golden armour, you couldn't say I was a liar because there was never REALLY a helms' deep or elves, could you? See, it works out.

Yey for Dolash!

*shakes hands with dolash and kas*

Now we stop arguing. Especially you, kas.