Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 19 2008,17:27)Quote (WorshippingJesus @ Aug. 20 2008,10:09)In the end God will show who is telling the truth and who is not.You had me until this line above…..I don't believe it's that cut and dry. If it were, I would consider God to be extremely unfair for giving us a collection of books that can be interpreted a zillion…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ Aug. 19 2008,03:44)Quote (kejonn @ Aug. 19 2008,11:45)What is truth? Truth to you may be fallacy to another.The earth is a globe.No the earth is a flat plain.One is true and the other is fallacy. Nothing changes because someone believes that the earth is a flat plain. The earth doesn't suddenly become a flat plain because someone…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 18 2008,10:58)When Dan and I went through some financial difficulties a few years ago, we were cash-flow broke. I mean broke. We had an insurance bill coming due for $668.98. We didn't have it. I prayed and asked God for help and ultimately for the money. Then I worked and worked at anything I could do to make money (but…[Read more]

Quote (seekingtruth @ Aug. 17 2008,00:20)the only thing that won't be tolerated is intolerance!Of course tolerance used to mean respecting another's rights despite different beliefs, now many want it to mean you must respect their belief and hold it as equal to your own.WmSo you don't have an issue with Muslims believing your faith is inferior to…

Quote (t8 @ Aug. 16 2008,22:31)Quote (kejonn @ Aug. 16 2008,08:28)They have learned to tolerate difference though the bible does not hold to tolerance. Why is that?There is little tolerance of those who claim to be of the truth and are not. Those that do not claim such and live wickedly are tolerated from what I can see.What is truth? Truth to you…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 16 2008,11:23)Quote (kejonn @ Aug. 16 2008,23:03)Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 15 2008,22:34)Quote (kejonn @ Aug. 16 2008,08:33)“A religion needs to have a wisdom that is dynamic and not fixed by a dogma that may have fitted one age but not another.” – Shahin BakhradniaLoving your brother doesn't fit into this age and time?…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 15 2008,22:34)Quote (kejonn @ Aug. 16 2008,08:33)“A religion needs to have a wisdom that is dynamic and not fixed by a dogma that may have fitted one age but not another.” – Shahin BakhradniaLoving your brother doesn't fit into this age and time? Forgiving one another and bearing with one another doesn't fit into our…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 15 2008,12:26)Quote (kejonn @ Aug. 15 2008,23:49)Are you hinting that Jesus was bipolar? Or that — gasp — all of the words attributed to him didn't actually come out of his mouth.Kevin,You of all people realize that language was very different back in the day of Jesus. It is quite possible that in the translations the true…[Read more]

Oh, and where have I ridiculed individuals? Only the bible. Sorry, don't say things of me that are untrue.

Quote (t8 @ Aug. 15 2008,08:02)And yet you drive a wedge by ridiculing the God spoken of in scripture and those who follow him. Others here just trust scripture and scripture certainly does bring a divide, i.e., righteous and wicked, but keeping petty opinions to oneself is wise.So what is worse? Ones own prejudice to bring a divide or the…[Read more]

Quote (Shania @ Aug. 14 2008,20:26)Quote (kejonn @ July 17 2008,23:13)If God wanted people to know Jesus, he would have left more than just some writings about him.John 14:11-1411 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12 I tell you the truth, anyone…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ Aug. 14 2008,20:41)To doubt what these men have said about God is to doubt their experience and communication with God.In that case, he may doubt his own experience with God too.Doubt being the keyword. Doubt leads to unbelief and men are certainly entitled to not believe.Do you doubt Mohamed's experience with angels of Allah? Do you…[Read more]

Are you hinting that Jesus was bipolar? Or that — gasp — all of the words attributed to him didn't actually come out of his mouth.

Thing is, it doesn't bother me what the book says, but statements like that drive a further wedge in humanity. Christianity is just another reason for bigotry.

Quote (Samuel @ Aug. 14 2008,22:36)Cause, I don't have a problem with casting my pearls before swine in the Believers section.Nothing beats the dehumanization of others by quoting the holy book!

Quote (942767 @ Aug. 09 2008,21:50)Quote (kejonn @ Aug. 10 2008,14:43)Quote (942767 @ Aug. 09 2008,19:12)Hi KJ:He was teaching his disciples, and it applied to them then and to us now:Quote Mat 5:1 ¶ And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Aug. 10 2008,16:02)Quote What of the question which I have posed all too often, getting no reply at all, about what it is that you know that I cannot possibly know as a non-believer?“the peace of God that excels all thought….” Phil 4:7From the evidence I see of Christians around me, their “peace” does not exceed my own. Next?

Quote (942767 @ Aug. 09 2008,19:12)Hi KJ:He was teaching his disciples, and it applied to them then and to us now:Quote Mat 5:1 ¶ And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, He never called you to be a disciple. You decided you…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 09 2008,11:06)Hi Kevin,Quote Your posts in the Believers section do not reflect this. You no longer question the bible, you just question other's interpretation of it. There is a big difference. This is your opinion. I believe you base a bit of your opinon on the fact that I have also disappointed you. How could you…[Read more]

Quote (942767 @ Aug. 09 2008,13:05)Hi Stu:I personally do not call anyone a fool, however there is the following scripture:Quote Psa 14:1 of David.]] The fool hath said in his heart, no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, none that doeth good. Psa 53:1 of David.]] The fool hath said in his heart, no God. Corrupt are they,…[Read more]