Nick Harman said:
You have a position based solely on the fact that you do not want there to be a God.
In case you're too lazy to read all of this, I'm calling you a hypocrite and a bad example for your Christian brothers. Since you only seem to read negative/confrontational posts, maybe that will get your attention.
Who would not want a loving, personal God that could solve our problems by prayer? Who would not want the comfort of knowing what is right based on one absolute authority? Who would not want an absolute purpose to our existence? Who would not want to believe that humans are special and that whatever ethnicity/nationality they belong to is the MOST special? Who would not want to be free of the burden of thinking for ourselves? Who would not want to be free from the thought that everything might happen completely in vain? Who would not want to wonder if their actions might be wrong?
But that's the easy way out. That is YOUR way out. We're honest with ourselves. Aside from a book translated many times and the traditions handed down to us from holy people, we have no proof of God and no proof the Christian bible is any more true than the Koran or any other holy book. We also have no proof there is no God. You can't prove or disprove any of these things. If you were honest with yourself, you'd accept your religion on faith like you're supposed to, not physical evidence.
But you are a hypocrite. You're not exhibiting the least of Christian virtues. Your condecending talk, patronizing attitude, and outright arrogant posts are disgusting. Is this the Christian example you're supposed to be demonstrating before the godless heathen? You only take away the tenents of your faith that allow you to feel better than us. Where is your humility? "Blessed are the meek." "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and selfcontrol." "All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." I guess you don't like those verses?
"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." I guess you're going to ignore that one, too?
All of the people in this forum are trying to understand, explain, and help you think for yourself. In return, you imply we have some hidden agenda. Who are you to judge us? Who are you to say our faith is less or wrong? "Judge not..."
I personally appealed to you to offer to show you current evidence of these things, but you're ignoring any positive post. That offer still stands.
But go ahead. By all means. Keep making a hypocrite out of yourself and making your faith look bad. We all know you're saved anyway. You're one of God's chosen! Who cares about manners, compassion, or humility. Even if they are in the damn bible. You can just take the parts you like! Picking and choosing is fun! And it lets you talk down to and belittle the people in this forum. We're just agents of the devil who don't want a god to exist. It's not like Jesus would love us. " God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Oh wait! Maybe he does!
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thy say to thy brother, "Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?" Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye." Did you miss that verse, too?
For someone who purports the Bible is his ultimate authority, you sure don't seem to take it very seriously. It almost seems like we've read it more closely than you have...
