Frank Apisa wrote:RexRed wrote:cicerone imposter wrote:Rex, I don't have to rewrite history; but you sure do! Show us any evidence that your imaginary friend ever existed - now or in the past. Evidence we can all agree is substantiated by observation.
You can't use the bible to support the bible. That's called circular logic.
So should I use "your (or anyone else's) opinion" to support the Bible or study the Bible to understand what it means.
2Peter 1:20
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
Comment:
You are just simply wrong.
Now, should we look up the words (private interpretation) in a dictionary or look them up in the Bible where the words have been used before to understand the passage?
It seems you have gone the dictionary route...
But when you look the words up in the Bible THEY DEFINE THEMSELVES...
It is no wonder why you reject the Bible and God... You have PRIVATELY INTERPRETED the Bible to fit YOUR OWN private Godless religion.
Since you are back up this silly alley, Rex...I'll give you another shot at it.
Take a look at this quote from the Bible again...and do not interpret it. The words, as you pointed out, define themselves.
"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be
put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their
lives." Leviticus 20:13
So what are the words saying? What is being taught here? What does your god think about homosexual activity?
C'mon, Rex.
I have explained this and you simply hate the God of the Bible out of laziness and complacency AND so you DON'T LISTEN ANYWAY... God is JUST but you are the one projecting your own evil into the Bible. It is there for you to do so. You are not God Frank but you think you can judge the wisdom of God but you have only made yourself into the fool.
What is the point?
When I explained that exact scripture 20 pages back my answer was the same as it is now... It was the same answer as when I explained it 5 years ago to you.
THERE ARE TWO GODS IN THE BIBLE. MOSES WAS NOT INFALLIBLE. But, you are quite fallible. Especially how you select only the scriptures that you are motivated at any cost to make God (of the Bible) look bad. You cancel out the good of God for your "man in the dark" routine...
I do not have to ignore or skip over scriptures in the Bible as you do. If I were to take one part and not the rest than the Bible would be no better than any other book. I take the Bible as God inspirited. You hack and slash... It is no wonder you don't know God... You never wanted to know God. Law was supplied in the OT because there was a limited connection to God spiritually. But it seems you cannot comprehend such loft.
So go hate the TRUE God of the Bible out of wrong teaching and ignorance if it brings you self deliverance from you own fabricated fears...
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for
lack of knowledge: because thou hast
rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Law versus liberty
Something Frank you may seemingly never understand.
Frank have you every had a STD? Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Genital warts, Aids, Herpes? The list goes on... You can't go to the rabbi and get a vaccination in the desert and a handful of condoms at the bar free.
STD's are a fate often worse than stoning especially how they can often spread without even having sexual contact in some cases. How about a tiny little case of spinal meningitis?
Adulterers were stoned to death too. (why don't you post those scriptures?) they wouldn't suit your purpose in defaming God would they Frank. They would more than less take the wind out of your sails.
Do you think people may have SURVIVED due to the harshness of these laws?
You don't know what the hell you are talking about.