Hey Nareed
February 1st, 2015 at 9:11:09 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
It's not that crime doesn't pay, it in fact pays very well. There is a price, however, that has nothing to do with the afterlife. It's called peace of mind. Awfully hard to give up just to commit crimes. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 1st, 2015 at 9:34:43 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
No one in their right mind would want to be the blood-thirsty, vengeful God depicted in the Bible.
Of course. And if there was any benefit to setting myself on fire, I'd do that, too. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 1st, 2015 at 9:52:04 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
That sounds like an excuse a blood-thirsty, vengeful being would use. Good thing the Bible gives us a very different morality. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 1st, 2015 at 10:00:14 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Bible = morality. The original oxymoron. As I've said, some scholars who've studied the OT wonder how they even got a religion out of the mess that it is. Of course the NT was carefully edited 400 years later to be crafted AS a religion. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 2nd, 2015 at 4:17:00 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
You don't get it. Self-destructive actions are never of any benefit to the person making them. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 2nd, 2015 at 2:59:44 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Some morality lessons from the Bible: "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes." (Luke 12:47) "As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may aquire male and female slaves." (Leviticus 25:44, NRSV) "This said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun." (II Samuel 12:11) "a blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and shatters them against a rock!" (Psalms 137:9, Here's a fine morality statement by Jesus himself: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26) Human sacrifice: "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." (Exodus 22:29) If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 2nd, 2015 at 8:18:26 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Do you want me to list the thousands of verses that show how out of context and cherry picked the verses you've chosen out the Old Testament are? Do you want me to show you again your misinterpretation of them as well, especially the ones from Christ? Unfortunately I have four funerals this week and so I don't have the time. I also realize if you are content to proof text the Bible for your own agenda and refuse to truly read it then I don't think it will do much good. Suffice it to say you cannot truly read the Bible and see it in any other way as God's story of love for humanity. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 2nd, 2015 at 8:25:03 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Yet people have read it enough different ways to have over 2500 different offshoots of Christianity, each claiming vehemently that they are the only 'right' version. Isn't that enough proof to just throw the whole thing out as a reference tool? Sorry about all the funerals, hopefully they were all old people who's death came as a surprise to nobody but them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 3rd, 2015 at 3:05:41 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | How many of the 2500 follow the things that you quoted? "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
February 3rd, 2015 at 10:48:17 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | duplicate If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |