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Originally posted by Pentothal
Satan created everything you disapprove of.
Shame that you can not provide a single nano-sized piece of evidence for either.
Originally posted by bogomil
Anybody interested, read acts and epistles for yourself. You may come to my conclusion, that Paulinism is the greatest hoax ever.
Originally posted by bogomil
Re: EasternShadow
You wrote:
"Then you should know it would never work because you can't embrace faith by force. A 'force' religion only lead to rebellion and hatred instead of understanding, willingness and love. As I said no one can force you to believe. If you don't want to be a believer then you can never be one unless your heart/soul will for it."
Then what happened at the inquisition and Jesuit god-bothered South-america?
My contry had compulsory statechurch-going duty until a century or two ago, and indigenous and competing christian sects were forbidden.
If some ideology is hammered into you all life, and there's no alternative, it's called brainwashing. But surely 'christianity' would NEVER lower itself to such, and there are NO christian soldiers left. Except a few here on this forum, maybe.
Originally posted by bogomil
Re: adjensen
you wrote:
"Paul taught that we are not saved by our own works, which was the Jewish belief, but by our faith in Christ,....."
But that's what I said. Are you trying to disprove me, by agreeing with me?
On the contrary, Paul implored his churches to be faithful, to be moral, to care for and love one another. No church believes that forgiveness and salvation are complete without repentance. Go look up what that word means, because it is key to Christian faith, and it is the easiest argument against your ignorant claim.
"To claim that you "live up to our own ideals of ethics" means nothing, because you can just mould your "ideals of ethics" to be the things that you want to do."
Isn't that what 'christians' are doing all the time by reading the bible as it suits them?
From James:
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Paulus: Romans
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Does this sound as two people agreeing?
You have an extremely unpleasant habit of giving my words just a little twist, giving them a new meaning, and then from there leading the subject out into demagogic ramblings, either as divertive action or to tire or confuse everyone. If you want to relate to my posts, at least avoid deforming my words.