(again in reference to my question on dinosaurs) Then why do you dwell on a book that was written 2000 years ago to control a bunch of sheep herders? Is that not dwelling on the past? How is that book more important than anything else in history?
2006-09-25 05:19:01 · 8 answers · asked by Spookshow Baby 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You know, I love these questions on here, and some of our questions are great. But their weight is lost on the "believers" who simply reply "I'll pray for you."
2006-09-25 05:24:50 · answer #1 · answered by valkyrie hero 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is not dwelling in the past, because in the Bible it speaks of a God who is never changing, therefore meaning that the word is still good today!
2006-09-25 13:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Or worship someone that died 2000 years ago... isn't HE in the past?
2006-09-25 12:23:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It has no importance at all. Paul was a male chauvinist homophobe. I believe that it was his desire to control the masses and make himself the leader of the "church" that motivated him to create sin and hell.
2006-09-25 12:25:22 · answer #4 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They don't care about anything before/wasn't mentioned in the Bible, for some reason that doesn't count.
2006-09-25 12:22:07 · answer #5 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes. Here you go:
2. THE FAITH OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND OF THE NEW CHURCH IN ITS UNIVERSAL FORM is as follows:
The Lord from eternity, who is Jehovah, came into the world to subjugate the hells and to glorify His Human; and without this no mortal could have been saved; and those are saved who believe in Him.
[2] This is called the faith in its universal form, because this is the universal principle of faith; and the universal principle of faith must be in each thing and in all things of it. It is a universal principle of faith that God is one in essence and in person, in whom is a Divine trinity, and that He is the Lord God the Savior Jesus Christ. It is a universal principle of faith that no mortal could have been saved unless the Lord had come into the world. It is a universal principle of faith that He came into the world to remove hell from man, and that He did remove it by means of contests with it and victories over it, and thereby He subdued it and reduced it to order and made it obedient to Himself. It is a universal principle of faith that He came into the world to glorify His Human which He took on in the world, that is, to unite it with the Divine from which [are all things], and thereby He eternally holds hell in order and under obedience to Himself. As this could be accomplished only by means of temptations admitted into His Human, even to the last of them, which was the passion of the cross, He endured even that. These are the universal principles of faith relating to the Lord.
[3] The universal principle of faith on man's part is that he should believe in the Lord; for by believing in Him there is conjunction with Him and thereby salvation. To believe in the Lord is to have confidence that He saves; and as only those who live rightly can have this confidence, this, too, is meant by believing in Him And this the Lord teaches in John:
This is the Father's will, that everyone that believeth in the Son may have eternal life (John 6:40);
2006-09-25 12:31:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible was written so people could read God's Word for themselves, not listen to bigots like you.
2006-09-25 12:30:43 · answer #7 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i love you, and so do I, and JIBBA too
2006-09-25 12:26:35 · answer #8 · answered by RELIGION SUX 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋