10-16-2015, 10:14 AM
(10-16-2015, 10:03 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Flaws are inherent when man is involved.
I agree. However many Christians believe they are reading the "inerrant word of God" when reading the Bible.
Quote:Contradictory is dependent upon how you are looking at it.
You mean figuratively or literally? Who decides what gets taken literally and what doesn't?
Quote:People will see what they choose to see, for good or bad.
That appears to be rather evident.
Quote:It is the same for every religion and their texts. The fact that there is an effort to overgeneralize whenever these discussions come up, on every side of the debate, shows how little effort is actually being put into engaging in civil discourse about the topic. Thus the commentary about denigration.
I didn't "overgeneralize". I took a direct quote supposedly from God himself. And it seems contradictory to the notion of "free will". It was explained that he only took action because of the "arrogance" that man would even think that he could be like god and yet, that's precisely what enticed Eve to eat the apple.
