(MickinEngland;18234)
1 - People may say talking snakes, flaming magical swords, talking plants etc never happened, but I say PROVE it never happened..
He said "The burden of proof does not lie with the individual making the absurd claim. I could tell you that I can fly, it would be my responsibility to prove it to you. Not yours to prove that I cannot. Prove that God is not a Flying Spaghetti Monster and that we didn't evolve from pirates."
2 -Leviticus says kill gays, but the 10 Commandments says do NOT kill, so which do we follow, Lev or the Commandments? Let Jesus answer -"Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" " If you want to enter life,
obey the commandments." "Which ones?" the man inquired. Jesus replied, " 'Do not kill.." etc (Matthew 19:16-19)
He said, "Thus God is a fool who contradicts himself, or rather the humans writing the scripture did so carelessly."
3 -Far from Jesus teaching us to be pushovers, a major theme of Christianity is NOT to be pushovers..
Jesus said:- "The world wants you to dance to its tune" (Matthew 11:16-17)"Jesus saved you from the empty way of life handed you by your forefathers" (1 Peter 1:18 )"Don't conform to the pattern of this world" (Rom 12:2)"As a soldier of christ,please only God and not the world" (2 Tim 2:3/4)"Don't love the world or the things in it,otherwise the love of God is not in you" (1 John 2:15-17)"Set your mind on things above,not on things on the earth" (Col 3:2)"A friend of the world is the enemy of God" (James 4:4)"You died with christ from this world,so don't keep submitting to its rules" (Col 2:20)"You were dead when you followed the ways of the world" (Eph 2:1/2)
He said, "Those passages have nothing to do with not being a pushover. All they state is to not conform to society and follow the teachings of the Lord."
4 - Regarding the nature of God, nobody knows, so its fruitless trying because our weak human minds just can't do it..
Jesus said:-"You hardly believe me when I tell you earthly things,so how would you believe me if I told you heavenly things?" (John 3:12)"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord" (Isa 55:8 )
He said, "Or can your weak human mind not wrap around scientific explanations? Claiming something to be the product of magic is much easier than figuring out the truth behind it. The reason that the idea of God does not make sense is because he was created by individuals whom did not think out their story very well, and didn't need to, since the majority of the population was made up of uneducated laborers."He has something to say about everything...I had him read this because I thought it was good, and he asked if he could type a response to each of the statements...He's starting to test my faith...