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originally posted by: noeltrotsky
originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: noeltrotsky
You have to understand that His ultimate gift to you is Free Will.
Yes. You are free to do things god's way, or suffer his wrath. That's not free will, that's coercion.
I don't believe in the 'Hell' story, and it's distinct lack of discussion in the many assembled stories in the Bible leads me to think there is no 'Hell' and thus no 'wrath'.
originally posted by: JessicaRabbitTx
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: JessicaRabbitTx
Science is the religion of satan.
The knowledge that satan gave us is responsible for all the wars and genocide that is blamed on GOD.
Without that knowledge we would have powers that are currently myths to us.
Yes, knowledge is evil. That pretty much sums up why I believe religion causes so many problems.
I won't argue against faith though. It's designed to be impossible to argue with as there is nothing logical about it. That's the genius of using religion to give any agenda more power.
The translators of the Revised Standard Version in the 1940s noted that Tyndale's translation inspired the translations that followed, including the Great Bible of 1539, the Geneva Bible of 1560, the Bishops' Bible of 1568, the Douay-Rheims Bible of 1582–1609, and the King James Version of 1611, of which the RSV translators noted: "It [the KJV] kept felicitous phrases and apt expressions, from whatever source, which had stood the test of public usage. It owed most, especially in the New Testament, to Tyndale".
Many scholars today believe that such is the case. Moynahan writes: "A complete analysis of the Authorised Version, known down the generations as "the AV" or "the King James" was made in 1998. It shows that Tyndale's words account for 84% of the New Testament and for 75.8% of the Old Testament books that he translated.[46]
Joan Bridgman makes the comment in the Contemporary Review that, "He [Tyndale] is the mainly unrecognised translator of the most influential book in the world. Although the Authorised King James Version is ostensibly the production of a learned committee of churchmen, it is mostly cribbed from Tyndale with some reworking of his translation."[47]
Many of the English versions since then have drawn inspiration from Tyndale, such as the Revised Standard Version, the New American Standard Bible, and the English Standard Version. Even the paraphrases like the Living Bible have been inspired by the same desire to make the Bible understandable to Tyndale's proverbial ploughboy.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: ElohimJD
Knowledge is exactly why we are here in this state of being and being kept from the truth. Unless one has all the knowledge as God does then a little knowledge will always fail us. Knowing was never part of the plan we were designed for. Satan opened the dorr for us to know enough to get a big head and believe we could do just as good as what God planned.
While technically there is some truth in your statment it is more dangerous that anything.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: ElohimJD
Knowledge is exactly why we are here in this state of being and being kept from the truth. Unless one has all the knowledge as God does then a little knowledge will always fail us. Knowing was never part of the plan we were designed for. Satan opened the dorr for us to know enough to get a big head and believe we could do just as good as what God planned.
While technically there is some truth in your statment it is more dangerous that anything.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: ElohimJD
Knowledge is exactly why we are here in this state of being and being kept from the truth. Unless one has all the knowledge as God does then a little knowledge will always fail us. Knowing was never part of the plan we were designed for. Satan opened the dorr for us to know enough to get a big head and believe we could do just as good as what God planned.
While technically there is some truth in your statment it is more dangerous that anything.
By this rationale, we should have all just remained like apes and other animals, acting on instinct.
originally posted by: JessicaRabbitTx
But anyone who doesn't believe in the Christian god won't get to take part in that paradise right? They'll be left behind to be destroyed with the world and then burn in hell for eternity.I mean I'm no bible scholar. I could be wrong, but that's the general idea isn't it?And if by chance you were born in a predominately Muslim country brought up as a Muslim, or in any of the other religions you'd burn with them. Right?Am I mistaken in believing that the Bible implies that anyone who doesn't believe Jesus Christ to be to be the son of god will not experience the peace that comes after the destruction?
That is A LOT of people. I'm sorry but I just don't see how that is any more beautiful than the holocaust. In fact it looks much more evil from where I'm standing.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: ElohimJD
Knowledge is exactly why we are here in this state of being and being kept from the truth. Unless one has all the knowledge as God does then a little knowledge will always fail us. Knowing was never part of the plan we were designed for. Satan opened the dorr for us to know enough to get a big head and believe we could do just as good as what God planned.
While technically there is some truth in your statment it is more dangerous that anything.
By this rationale, we should have all just remained like apes and other animals, acting on instinct.