“I already said I know many Christians who do not follow the Bible, ones who find the things within nothing less than barbaric. I know this. But here’s the thing. You’re a bad christian if you don’t follow the bible. Real Christians hate these types. These Christian posers. But I love them, since they’re with me. Believers in humanity, athiests.“
You, sir, need to do some self-reflecting. What you do define as “real Christians” is people who also follow the Old Testament. However, you definition falls flat we We Christians don’t do that as Christ overturned the old law and now we live in a covenant which values equality, love, and social justice.
@Mildgyth
Now. I will admit this is not my main area of expertise and that I can be wrong. But I do remember learning about it in my foundations of western civ class.
The name of God in Hebrew isn’t taught in Bibles; every time it says “The LORD” (emphasis on capital letters) the name has been omitted. When you take the 4 original Hebrew letters and stack them up vertically, they look like this:
Like a Human. Jesus says somewhere in the New Testament, to some Religious folk he didn’t agree with, “Does it not say in your own text ‘You are Gods?’”
The start of Genesis says we are “Made in God’s image” and the name here reflects that. God is very much like a human; only, considering another verse “…My thoughts are higher than yours” and another idea; “More is thought in the kingdom of heaven than in your philosophy” - More, not less - “God” has a larger perspective than we on Earth.
We have choice in our lives to do whatever. Considering this, somehow I get the feeling we’re not supposed to be non-thinking, dictated “robots” either.
EDIT: Also, lest anyone start getting scared all of a sudden it says in the book that God is Unconditional Love. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. Sometimes, we people can get all too caught up in our performance to do what’s right that we may lose sight of that and fear that we’re gonna be drowning in shit.
@Psy Key
to be fair we do have evidence of a wolf of sorts becoming fish like. whales are desendents where once cainine like creatures that lived near the water and over time the smaller mutations that apeared in the genetics made them more and more fish like. we found this by looking at how they move. bones in the middle east.
this god is just the mini boss compaired to like….thosands we gotta fucking deal with. With only like…..3 on our side. The Emperor. The Omnisaiah. Esha. and…..maybe the
@Twitter-Mites
To be fair the entire story of adam and eve could just be a small story writen by the people who lived in the middle east told by a fairly simple perpective. Our days as hunter gatherers where we lazed about. eating what we found and hunting animals until one day someone planted food. and thus when the food. was first taken it meant that in turn the good old days of simply working to survive was over. Insted complexity in the life came. people fighting over land to grow more food to feed more people. people inventing complex things. people thinking about complex things. ect. ect. and not meant to be taken as literal. As the origional bible has been translated and re translated so many times that it is impossable to know what the origional said. the dead sea scrolls are close but are written in ancent hebrew and it is not the same as modern. and when translated it is a garble of words and barely functions as a sentence.
live and let live. if they are not. wanting to deal with you. let them be happy.
(unless its a cult suicide thing….or gene stealers..then stop it.)
