AJ113

Indeed. It is an opinion formed after applying the rational thought process to the subject.

gilly54

Magus said:

So, if you are in an accident where you break some bones or are bleeding copiously, you will request to be taken to a church to be prayed over rather than rushed to a hospital? Really?

A lot of other religious Christian zealots have done this, relying on God, rather than fellow humans trained in medicine to cure them. Want to place a bet on which treatment, God or human-developed medicine, produces the most fatalities?

winstonjen

Ah, but Magus thinks this world is horrid, and if he dies, he'll be in bliss with Jesus, so OF COURSE he would go to church. Then again, so do lots of Fundies who mentally masturbate quite often.

Magus55

That isn't what I meant. I will take the word of God, over humans attempt at understanding the world. Yes obviously i'd go to a hospital because God isn't a magic genie, and I wouldn't treat Him as such. But if humans conclude the world is billions of years old, and God says it was created in 6 days, I will trust God over humans until told otherwise, since God was there at the beginning of time, humans weren't.

Magus55

You still haven't answered me as to why every one of your posts is sarcastic and insulting. What do you get out of it? Do you have nothing better to do with your life than mock and criticize Christians?

Hedwig

God hasn't said anything about the beginning of the universe, billions of years or two days ago. Humans wrote the Bible upon which you base all your beliefs.

Magus55

Human hands wrote the Bible, God inspired their writing.

gilly54

Sorry if I misunderstood you.

But, isn't medicine a part of the human attempt to understand the world, along with physics, genetics, geology, archeology, etc?

So, from this statement, I can conclude that you believe the Bible to be factual. Am I correct on this?

In Leviticus 14, God tells his priests that the cure for leprosy is to place a drop of sheep blood on the leper's right ear, right thumb and right big toe. So, which would you choose, should you contract Hansen's disease (leprosy): God's remedy or the human-discovered antibiotic? If you choose the antibiotic, then you are going against the word of God, aren't you?

Hedwig

Is it so unreasonable to imagine, even if god were real, that even if he inspired the bible, human hands might have mucked it up?

Magus55

Nope.

Luk 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.


2Ti 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: