Originally posted by @handyandyAccording to those who believe the Bible was simply written by men.
God didn't order the execution of homosexuals. You and your fellow bigots did.
If Leviticus is simply made up, why isn't all of the Bible?
21 Jan 18
Originally posted by @eladarDo you read much?
According to those who believe the Bible was simply written by men.
If Leviticus is simply made up, why isn't all of the Bible?
You should realize that many books of fiction also contain references to true events and other facts.
The Bible is literature.
21 Jan 18
Originally posted by @handyandyNice you admit you believe the Bible is a work of fiction.
Do you read much?
You should realize that many books of fiction also contain references to true events and other facts.
The Bible is literature.
22 Jan 18
Originally posted by @handyandyIf this is so why give Christianity a second thought?
Yes, written by men with hidden agendas.
22 Jan 18
You should check out Finklestein's Unearthing the Bible. It is quite relevant in the sense that the Hebrews actually recorded both their victories and their humiliating defeats. This is extraordinarily unique. Other societies tended to not do anything like that at all.
There is no hidden agenda. There are no historical lies in the chronicles of Hebrew history.
22 Jan 18
Originally posted by @jacob-vervilleThe Hebrews committed genocide against people living on land they wanted to settle on. On what basis are you claiming that the justification that they wrote down later in their chronicling of the genocide - that they were ordered by a supernatural being to kill all the people and take their land - was not an historical lie?
There are no historical lies in the chronicles of Hebrew history.
Originally posted by @jacob-vervilleIs it "extraordinarily unique"? Is it really?
... the Hebrews actually recorded both their victories and their humiliating defeats. This is extraordinarily unique.
You are claiming that no other group or tribe or nation or historian of any other people chronicling the story of their collective history - down through human history - has ever written about the defeats those people suffered, only the Hebrews did this?
Someone told you this?
22 Jan 18
Originally posted by @rajk999What I intended was a word to encompass how we might "relate" to God.
Do you mind explaining what is a relationship with God?
Anything from venting at the sky, through the sense of presence in Psalm 23, to full mystical union as described by the medieval mystics (and others).
22 Jan 18
Originally posted by @handyandyYou an like God creating Adam and Eve and the nature of marriage?
Because of the relevant teachings of Christ.
Seems to me that you could do just as well getting what you'd like to be supported in any world religion. Why claim just one?
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Originally posted by @eladar“Homosexual” is an identity, to anyone who is keeping up with society’s evolution as reflected in its use of words. The Bible condemns those who commit a certain act, and at that, only the penetrator, regardless of his “identity.” In some societies the penetrator is not labeled as homosexual. Homosexuals who do not “lie with a man as one lies with a woman,” well, what about them? Your application of the law is misguided. Edit: and is probably contaminated by a puritanical distaste for calling things what they are.
You are so far in denial that you can't admit that God ordered that homosexuals be executed.
22 Jan 18
Originally posted by @eladarAdam and Eve? A simplistic way of explaining a long and complicated story.
You an like God creating Adam and Eve and the nature of marriage?
Seems to me that you could do just as well getting what you'd like to be supported in any world religion. Why claim just one?