I Respect Honesty and Integrity

I have read and do read the Bible; you should learn to grasp it.

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Your claim that believers are instructed to do horrific acts to non-believers (because they do/did not share our belief) is an utter lie.
Consider honesty, sir.
What you so try - and I use that term loosely - to speak of is the accounts of God's orders to the Israelites towards certain wars. These battles were not for the fact that they did not believe in the same God; infact, God, through out the whole testament, did not so much as instruct them to kill persons because they did not acknowledge Him. I am ready to be stood corrected if you can prove other than I have stated.

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Yet this ancient WORK OF MAN contains in it prophecies which came to pass and are coming to pass; talks perfectly, though briefly, of things in space (constellations & so on); speaks about dinosaurs, which according to science were extinct millions of years ago - this same science acknowledges that the Bible is no greater than 2000 years old. I wonder how those men knew about dinosaurs then, seeing that the greatest advancement of technology in their days was a ballista and wheel cart. Do not forget, sir, that these men, just as all christians make the claim that the earth is only about 4000 years old); et cetera.

Wow! These men must have either never died and lived through the age of the dinosaurs, not meeting death till they had written their ancient book. Wow. Such wonder of evolution.

The Bible was written by men inspired of God and not out of their own/personal reasoning. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."

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No, we are not "holier than thou" and neither do we ascribe ourselves as such; it is you and lots as you who do so, sir. We, just as you, are sinners, but the only difference between us and unbelievers is that we have been saved, by faith in Christ Jesus, through grace. A thing I do not expect you to understand.

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Again, sir, your ignorance is made evident, just as the light of the day. No sinner will make it into Heaven; all who fail to repent of their sins - paedophiles, hypocritical christians, & so forth - will be cast into hell, just as they requested.

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If you had knowledge of scripture then you'd know that after the judgement, a new earth will be made - one free of all imperfection (sin) - and no longer would the saved ones dwell in Heaven but on earth, as one family under God, with Christ as king over us, living daily with fulness of joy in the Father's presence.
Again, I do not expect you to understand, seeing as you have drawn you heart far away from understanding.

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Lol. Now this is how you highly discredit yourself. You say that the accounts of the Bible are not true when yet it has been historically, geographically, and prophetically proven to be accurate to the dot. You do not know because you do not search on this. Do not suppose, sir, that every christian does not actually study to see the truth in what it is he follows; and not only have I found the accounts of the Bible to be truth, my faith is further affirmed by the Holy Spirit in me.
But you do not know who this Spirit is, do you?

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"Those who contend that the record of the Lord’s virgin birth takes its rise out of a heathen background, simply are not informed relative to this topic. Or else, from a personally biased agenda, they choose to distort the facts.." <-- well phrased.
You are wrong in your claim, sir - very - As to how I might best explain, I think, is less compared to how it is explained on this site. Saves the time of having to write for long even. Phew; thank goodness. 
 https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/558-is-the-virgin-birth-of-jesus-grounded-in-paganism

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Indeed, religion is as you've said it is; fortunately Christianity is not religion, but a relationship; a relationship between God and man, as Father and child.

I'm a Catholic and I just performed an act of gross indecency on you when you weren't looking, however I am now sorry and Jesus said it would be Ok. Sorry you won't be able to sit down for the rest of the week :D

Lincoln98, You should read your bible. Believers are INSTRUCTED to do horrific acts to non-believers and yet you think of yourselves as "holier than thou"? You are imbeciles, fooled into thinking that if you follow this ancient work of MAN, conceived to control you, you will have a life in heaven.
Frankly I couldn't think of a more boring place. All those puritanical, up your ass and fuck the kiddies, believers being there for eternity. What are you supposed to do there? Worship some sycophant called God.
Dude, do some research and think logically for once in your life.
Christianity and the buybull, I mean bible, are not original, they are poor copies from religions gone. Practically NONE of the stories in the buybull are original.
Think for a moment, if the story of a virgin birth of our savior was around before Christianity said it actually happened, how can it be true? Did the previous religions that had the same story have a foresight into what was GOING to happen?
No, Christianity simply adopted the stories from past religions that seemed to work and called them its' own. Face it, religion is a mechanism to control and fleece the sheep that you are one of.
Be a man, grow some independence and free thinking and actually read your bible and wonder, "does this make sense?"

@Lincoln98, you've done a wonderful job!!!
God bless you.

@everyone else,guys, everyone has a personal choice to make and it cannot be forced onto anyone. I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. This does not mean that I am perfect, nor that I think myself highly than others. In fact, I recognize my faults all the greater now that I have seen the light and pray for His grace evermore.

Zoinks-

The individual manned to guard the city, upon sighting oncoming opposition, gives out a loud, lengthy cry and the people give ear to Him and are immediately prepared for battle. Those are the wise ones and their souls are delivered (the ones who ignore is cry have damned themselves, in that they will be struck down by the enemy since they gathered for themselves no shield or sword).

The individual manned to guard the city, who upon sighting oncoming opposition, 'whispers to the wind' a short speech, has damned the city already; but those who get to hear him, and arm themselves, & those who choose to stand guard on their own even and realise first-hand even, will be saved, but the complacent others in the city will be destroyed.

In that the text is lengthy, then you should know it is of high priority and yells loud, a warning, and the severity of the danger, if ignored.

Cut and paste, sir? Well, your allegation is something.
What it is you read - the body of text - is my write up, by the Holy Spirit in me, and not another's. (Well that is unless you consider the Holy Spirit, then it is He I have copied and pasted from 😄).

It is me you read from and it is me you hold dialogue with. Prejudice is quite distasteful, sir.
You fair well. 🙇

I'm sure this will help you explain to the heathens more easily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwXrcz-F9M

I only wanna be saved if there's wine and gin and lots of sexy men in heaven.

Sure, show me proof that there IS a god or gods and I'll believe it, until then I'll continue to lead a wholesome life.
If you think the bible is the way to a wholesome life then you should read things like Leviticus 20:10 where you are instructed to kill adulterers. The bible is a horror story of the worst kind. Indoctrinating kids before the age of reason is the worst kind of child abuse.

BTW Lincoln98, do you actually think for yourself? I see a whole lot of cutting and pasting here but no actual thoughts from you. Are you afraid that if you expose your actual self to others they might think less of you? I can assure you, we respect speaking to an actual person more than we do a cut and paste robot. Come INTO the light and talk to me, I'll be gentle on you and not subject you to the pits of hell.

MrW888-

Your point would hold much weight if Catholic was christian even. Fortunately, it is not.

You wish to judge a christian, or one who claims to be christian, then judge them not by their walk but by the book they claim to follow in comparison with their walk - as to whether they correlate or not. Then shall you know who the liar and false one is.

"Oy, this guy." -B. B. Rodriguez

Big wall of text + religion

I've farted. Does that count?

MarkCaesar-

It is a fool who confronts a wall; it is to noth to hold words with an obstinate mind.
Open your heart to impartial understanding, sir, and you would know. Surely, whomever seeks God whole-heartedly will find Him.

Anybody else feel they may be listening to one of SGs Priors of the Ori?

God bless you too, my brother.