Quote:And why is that? It's like saying that growing up in a home with parents who use drugs, drink excessivly, sleep around, beat each other and do things that "normal" loving families don't do will always, without exception, produce children who believe that the life they are living is right.
We inherently know right from wrong to some degree. No one, in their right minds, believes that murder is ok. We didn't get that from the Bible. It is just something we know.
Some of us choose to ignore it. Some of us choose to believe we have a right to behave a certain way. Some of us choose....get it?
Right or wrong is not subjective. Human perception and reality is subjective. The view of the bible is done through human eyes and human hands, there for is in some degree, subjective. Therefore cannot be 100% truth. But that doesn't mean there is NO truth in it or that because you don't believe it's 100% that the bible wasn't created to remind us of basic right and wrong.
Huh? I don't see how it's like saying that at all. Please help me understand what you mean.
There are many kids who live very differently than their parents.
We know because we have a conscience. "
What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach... It is in your mouth and in your heart so that you may obey it."
You cannot justify your belief that even a human guided by the Holy Spirit would surely screw up the revelation with his own two cents. It's an arbitrary assertion. Then the Bible could be absolutely true, but the readers perception could be false.
TPQ, "
but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect" They should probably learn some arguments in defense of the faith in order to at least increase effectiveness in evangelism. The Lord promises, "
Seek and you will find." I have found this to be true. They should know that they aren't living a lie. I hardly think it possible that listening to objections of skeptics and reasonably looking for answers can destroy true faith. The more I'm skeptical, the more my faith has been
strengthened.
If a Hindu can justify Hinduism and show Christianity unjustifiable, then I would have to either become Hindu because of reason or dismiss it purely on a basis of blind, unjustified belief. However I don't have to worry about this, because Hinduism is self-contradictory and Christianity is justifiable. Also, just because someone believes something that they cannot justify does not make that belief automatically not true. Someone who has unjustified belief in Christ is saved just the same! Thank God. It is only assuredly not true if it contradicts fact.
I am interested in a justification, first, because if she can justify it, I must take it into consideration and perhaps revise my own beliefs. Second, because she has presented them in a way that they should affect Danielle's choices, but if they cannot be justified, then this is merely an arbitrary assertion w/o credibility.
"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." So even the disciples, having seen Jesus risen, could have faith in the promises of thing to come. Faith manifests itself in action. Many people say that they know something to be true, but there actions demonstrate quite the opposite.
And the parents mourn afterward wondering why their child who had so much less knowledge than them had not heeded their explicit command which was given out of love.
Sorry bout that, got side tracked. In my opinion, you can't get that sort of help on an internet board. Danielle, you have a lot of problems in your past, as I've read. The only way you can address the issues you have with you own sexual habits, is to come to terms with your past. You've got to decide for yourself what you think about what you're doing and why.
