RexRed wrote: You are looking in the wrong place and thus you receive the wrong answers.
So are you saying that the Bible gives us wrong answers?
Quote:Your words are the rehearsed talking points of unbelievers. How about showing some spirit and thinking on your own?
I post my own ideas. If other people have independently come to the same conclusions, then it looks like there is a solid basis for our interpretation. I quote the Bible when it contradicts what people claim it says.
Quote:Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Did you just read OVER this verse or does your mind simply gravitate the verses that cast God in a bad light and perceive God as a divider of people? Give that some careful thought, what are your own motivations for only seeing one side? It is not the word that is lacking it is you understanding thereof... The truth is there for those who hunger and thirst for righteousness through liberty and spirit. These words are still just as true two thousand years later even though the world has denied their existence and meaning.
There are many verses in the Bible that condone unethical behavior such as subjugating women, slavery, beating slaves and children, stoning people to death for assorted offenses, and slaughtering your neighbors. Most of us know that the Bible is not really the Word of God and must be run through the filters of enlightened morality instead of taken literally, but far too many condemn others based on Biblical "morality."
Yes, there are some good points in the Bible, as there are in the scriptures of other religions. But there is also a lot of bad advice, dubious history, superstition, outmoded morality, and endless lists of stuff not relevant to our lives. Kind of like DNA. Most of it is junk, some of it is useful, and some genes will harm us if they are allowed to propagate.