On Apr 30, 8:38 am, SM <[email protected]> wrote: > > How much understanding does it take to see an inconsistency when God > > says to Moses, "Take this message to my people. Thou shalt not worship > > graven images. Thou shalt not kill. Now go down and kill some of those > > people who worshiped graven images." ??? > > It doesn't take a lot of effort to understand the contradiction right > > > there. It takes a lot of rhetoric to convince people that it's not > > contradictory, and that it's somehow consistent with the loving, > > forgiving aspects of God presented elsewhere in the Bible. > > My whole point is that there *is* no understanding in your perception of an > inconsistency. As I've said, you conclude erroneously from a *lack* of > understanding. > > If you genuinely seek understanding, I recommend learning about God through > the person of Jesus. The OT manifestation of God is more easily understood > through Jesus, not the other way around.
You made it clear in one of your earlier posts, a very poetic way of saying that we need to accept God without trying to understand Him. Which to me sounds like "having faith", or embracing our feelings and setting aside reason. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "A Civil Religious Debate" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/a-civil-religious-debate?hl=en.
