[teejay]

>the interesting thing is even my saved pals have their own
>intepretations of the same bible in which they claim it's OK
>for them to drink. Plus they also claim to be divinely
>inspired when intepreting it, so they also insist they are
>right. I guess this is why there are N+1 million sects out
>there, since believers can't even agree on what their god is
>saying. So my question is, how do you know your stance is the
>correct one?

But ATlian, don’t you brother dear know that even Satan is a master of the bible. I have seen copy paste lots of time from the bible even rubbished my thoughts by saying that I seem to think its contents are only my preserve. I fail to see how you’ve gone without noticing how satan quotes the scriptures with ease. Assuming that He was your friend of wine guzzling then my I’d say you are the perfect devil’s adovacate.

>My Cheers
>for the invite, lakini as shocking as this may be to you, I'M
>ACTUALLY QUITE HAPPY ON MY GOD-LESS SIDE, experiencing the
>freedom available only to those that aren't tied down by
>religious dogmas.

Well, Have it your way. The word is only for whosoever shall accept, so they may be delivered.

>The way I see it, it's the bible apologists who get it wrong
>when they read the bible. They cannot reconcile some of the
>things in the bible with their definition of god, so they
>develop a new way of reading the bible which always exonerates
>god, and which tries to intepret things in a way that always
>paints god in a positive light, no matter how negative the
>things he has done are.
>
>That's why if you google info about Herod killing all first
>born boys, you'll see that all sites agree that killing
>innocent kids is bila any question or doubt evil. But when you
>google god killing all first borns in Egypt, these same
>authors suddenly don't see it as evil, it becomes god working
>in his mysterious ways, and try put a positive spin on it. Let
>me ask you - do you think god killing innocent Egyptian kids
>was good or evil?

You need to know that if you continue reading that way you will always get it wrong. Don’t you know that God was passing his judgment upon Mizriam on that day? What is evil about judgment, more when it passed against offenders? God will do it again at the second coming of Christ. If you read carefully you will find that in exodus there is a symbolic representation of Jacob as God’s firstborn. And Mizriam was hurting them. Mizriam even refused to let them go worship God. We all know that revenge is God’s and when He passed His Judgment on Mizriam he took out all the firstborns. Judgment is God’s prerogative.And trying to compare Herod and God is the most demeaning thing for one to say about his Creator who he has already denied by saying he is Godless.Herod and Mizriam are one thing. They are both trying to stop God. Have you even had any man succeed anywhere to that. Herod decides to that by destrying God's creation. Let me ask you one thing between the creator and the subject who is answerable to the other?

>The day you can read the bible and see good for good and evil
>for evil regardless of who the perpetrator is, then (in my
>opinion) you will finally know the bible. If you keep
>(mis)intepreting the evils and seeing them as good only
>because it's god doing them, then you will never fully
>understand the bible.

ATlian is mad at God because He has the authority destroy His property. Am surprised. ATlian you know I have no right to stop from destroying anything that you have made. You also don’t have any right to critise God when He punishes the outlaws.

You don’t understand God because you don’t want to Atlian. And its unfortunate.