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Article #14102Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: The Loan Arranger
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:35
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:35
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rbwinn wrote: > What difference would it make to an atheist? Weren't you claiming > that this was all myth? No, you're mistaking me for someone else, and I've never made any statements about my religious leanings either. Perhaps you're confusing me with The Natural Philosopher. That's not an easy mistake to make, I'm impressed. > Church leaders from the beginning had to contend with uninspired > people writing things seeking to gain position and authority in the > church. Once the Apostles were gone, there was no further control > over it. However, there were still people who could decide, this is > legitimate, this is garbage. So today we have what we have as the > Bible. There is still garbage in the Bible. The Song of Solomon is > garbage. Of course it is, it speaks of love and sex in a lyrical and intimate way. That's got to be completely intolerable by anyone who considers sex in any form to be sinful. Why would something like that belong in a book that ought to be concentrating on death, vengeance, incest, violence, damnation, torture, horrible prophesy, all those lovely other features of human existence? TLA
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