Kristyne McDaniel wrote:
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No, they are not in conflict at all. This is why I can hardly
believe that you don't believe the Word of God. Have you some
reason to not believe in the Word, "Got" notwithstanding?
I don't believe that the text we have today is the complete word that
God wanted us to hear. The first 5 books of the Hebrew Torah were
written by Moses and were never intended to be treated as a factual
history of the world. I believe they are an allegory, and since
that's what the Hebrews themselves think I certainly don't think I'm
off-base in that view. I understand that the young fundamentalist
churches do not choose to view it the same way, but that is not a
view held by religious groups older than, say, 200 years of age.
Fundamentalists tend to be zealots of young religious groups. They
tend to have studied less, and have teachers without a full grounding
in the history of the texts used for preaching. So no, I don't
subscribe to the views that fundamentalists preach. I never have. It
just made no sense to me, even when I was a child.
Why on earth would God punish a person in hell fire for eternity
because they didn't say a prayer just before getting hit by a bus?
That just doesn't make any sense to me. I wouldn't even do that to a
rattlesnake. God gave me a brain and I will use it, thank you very
much.
Hi Kris!
Thoughtful post, thanks for taking the trouble. Well, I know little
about fundamentalists, certainly know that I am not one.
I agree with you about the bus to an extent. The person's whole life has
to be considered, and we can trust God to be fair. If a person's whole
life has been righteous, the prayer before dying will not matter. If the
person's whole life has been blasphemous, the prayer before dying might
not help.
Where in the first five books does the bible speak of eternal fire, and
escaping it by saying a prayer before dying? Or do you mean the the
fundamentalists are reading that in to something that says something else?
Regards,
Pete
- Kris www.shamrocktrails.com, www.mcstyles.com, www.emryldlife.com
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