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God speaks but men write what they think they heard him say. Men's hearing is filtered through their own culturally dependent paradigms. Most are not conscious that they have a paradigm or even know what it is. I don't think that God is ever unclear but just as the native who found the coke...

I understand; being lost in your own muddle, births all manner of short sighted and convoluted rationale. A denial of them never arrives at clear skies.

No doubt. They also had their own issues and entrenched ways of seeing .....it's bloody struggle in any age to sort the flesh from the bones.

There is only one who is Truth F2F. The question is, is he a reliable measure by which to determine the nature of 'truth' ?

Good question. They thought it was God. Another question, by what criteria do we determine who is speaking?

Jesus said he was The Truth. Tell me of him. Don't tell me about yourself, you have said enough.

:) hazy or lazy.....ahhh, they sound similar :) there is probably a connection, particularly for those who consider themselves intrepid students :)

You give these answers F2F because you do not know Jesus. You know about him a bit like James and John when they wanted to fry the Samaritans....but you do not know him. James and John didn't know him till after the resurrection. They tried to superimpose the God that they had learned about...

And this is how you do it Sigma. You take what is said out of its context so that your spin appears validated.

Your argument AJ is not rationale. If Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow your argument is eroded. When James and John wanted to call fire down from heaven to consume the Samaritans (copying Elijah's exercise of murder) Jesus rebuked them by saying '“You do not know what manner of...

So here we have a problem and the problem comes down to who or what our authority is. If we say things like, 'all my post is truth', one elevates oneself to the level of God and I doubt anybody is there. The only other option is that that person lives in a delusion.....and many do...... Is it...

I refuse to engage what appears as your dogged and firmly held ignorance. You are of course free to do that for as long as you choose, nobody is going to hold a gun to your head, let alone God.

When statements like this are made by folks they qualify the person making them as unreliable.

Does God really sanction war? ie, the killing of other mothers sons to whom he gives life? Does God really tell us to kill others or does he tell us not to? As I read it, we are told to love our enemies and do good to those who despise us ....or does God live by a different standard than he...

Why did Jesus have to suffer and die? We couldn't bear a man who showed us up. We couldn't handle a God who showed us God was not what we expected of an all powerful God. It was intolerable so we tortured and killed him.

Your rose coloured glasses only promote self deception Sigma but I don't expect you to hear that.

Romans 5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. All of us are the seed of Adam brightframe. God is no respecter of persons. God has affection for all his children...

well, looking at much of Hebrew history they seem to be keen on wiping out the nations around them if they can. If that behaviour represents Jehovah, wouldn't you say he's a scary God?

Romans 10:13 for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”

Romans 5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.