Merged (edited) General thoughts about Christianity and the bible

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Now, that is one of their worst songs.

K. I was high as ◊◊◊◊ on Lebanese hash laced with opium the last time I heard it. There may have been some slight differences between the band's intent and my intake.

They tell me I had a good time, however.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Y-donor and I had differing o pinions on many things. My Weltanschauungen was "can we live together?" His was "the Grand Dragon is always right."

I avoid church like the plague. He went to the same church as the rest of his klavern. He kept trying to make me to go church. I learned to be absent when the family loaded up on Sunday morning.

 

[Tristan Chi]

I for one miss my slender days. Lack of grace as it were.

 

[Dave Rogers]

That infers malice. Is that your claim?

Not true.

You said that I made some claim about a group of scientists. That is demonstrably untrue, which you were easily able to verify had you so chosen. Making an untrue statement without concern for its lack of truth is, by any reasonable definition, a lie.

Dave

ETA: I see that among the plethora of basic knowledge you lack is the difference between the words 'imply' and 'infer. '

 

[P.J. Denyer]

That wasn't your original claim.

It's not my fault that you're able to be wrong in multiple ways in one post.

 

[arthwollipot]

That wasn't your original claim.

I see your problem.

You've confused an idiom - a figure of speech - for a claim of literal fact. You might want to check that, by which I do not mean that you should put a tally mark next to it.

 

[arthwollipot]

We messed up.
Grace is unmerited favor.
It can't be earned.

This sounds a lot like Unconditional Election, one of the five points of Calvinism.

 

[arthwollipot]

Not a worry, a relief. For which I am thankful.

What say you to Psalm 62:12?

For you render to each one according to his works.

Or Ezekiel 18:30?

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD.

John 5:29?

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

Or (and here's the kicker) James 2:21-25:

Was not Abraham our father justified by works? You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. Likewise, was not Rabab the harlot also justified by works? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

 

[arthwollipot]

Right.
It seems that many of the denominations that came out of the Protestant Reformation weren't much different than their Catholic predecessor.

Catholicism is very insistent that charity - good works - is essential for salvation, and not faith alone. Faith alone was Martin Luther's thing.

 

[arthwollipot]

If God wants you, He will come and get you.

Sure.

God hasn't come to get me, so I have to conclude either that he doesn't exist, that he doesn't care about me, or that he wants me to be an atheist.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I see your problem.

You've confused an idiom - a figure of speech - for a claim of literal fact. You might want to check that, by which I do not mean that you should put a tally mark next to it.

Randy is able to be fractally wrong, but he won't know what that means, just like he didn't understand that "and" meant that it was another way in which he was wrong that didn't contridict the first.

 

[Foster Zygote]

We messed up.

When, exactly, did we mess up?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Faith is a poor substitute for a good phantasmagoria.

 

[sackett]

When, exactly, did we mess up?

In Adam's fall
We sinnéd all.

Or some damn thing.

 

[Foster Zygote]

In Adam's fall
We sinnéd all.

Or some damn thing.

Gee. Sounds like an ancient, anachronistic moral code that punished people for things their ancestors did. Weird how some people won't even question the justice of applying that in modern society.

 

[Resume]

No.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Tell me more. (I'm Protestant)

Eh?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No.

Hyperverbosity?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If you didn't get the reference, you need to get out more.

Get thee to a cinema temple!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I for one miss my slender days. Lack of grace as it were.

I went from 42 jeans to 36 jeans on semaglutide. Off all my diabetes drugs as well.