The God That Paul Marketed Over Time.

The lie is the idea that you can demonstrate belief by saying, "Lord! Lord!" The real demonstration of belief is treating the least of His brethren as you would treat Him. The branches that do not bear fruit (e.g. love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control) will be cut off and cast into the fire.

Thank God for dyslexia because I read that as "internally". It doesn't make a damn bit of difference whether God is eternal or even if He exists at all unless we internalize the concept. If your "belief" doesn't become who you are and what you do then it isn't real and there is no "communion". It's as vacuous as the Tower of Babel.

The Ark was the answer to Noah's problems. Who built the Ark?

Whether or not he needed God's help is a separate question. The point is that if he didn't DO something, he would have been dead.Of course, the story DOESN'T say that God helped Noah to build the ark or that God helped the ark to ride out the storm. As far as we know, all God did was CAUSE the problem. That's just something you're making up. It's the emptiest of empty beliefs. What difference does it make who "runs" the show? The actors ARE the show.

Non sequitur.

The scriptures were written down by humans, translated by humans, redacted by humans, transcribed by humans - so it doesn't matter what spaceship Christ rode in on, scripture is the wisdom of the world. But you don't stick to the Bible. You conveniently ignore what you don't like and make up what isn't there. Indeed. Any kind of snake oil can convince the gullible. I base superiority on relationship to reality. Evidence is reality, so evidence-based conclusions are necessarily connected to reality. Belief has no requirement to correspond to reality, which is why belief produces nonsense like creationism.

He told us to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. In a democracy, the individuals ARE the state. We, the people, ARE Caesar. So yes, in a democracy we ARE responsible for social justice as a nation, not just as individuals.

Distancing Himself, maybe, but distancing US, no. Do you seriously advocate that Christians in a democracy should distance themselves from government? As I said, He addresses OUR ATTITUDE toward the state. He said that WE should acknowledge the state.

That's like asking what I have against death other than that it's fatal.How many fatal flaws do you need?

I didn't "equate" belief with death.You asked what I have against belief - apart from lack of evidence. Again, that's like asking what I have against jumping off a cliff - apart from breaking every bone in my body. Or asking what I have against serial killers - apart from them killing all of those people. Or asking what I have against losing my job - except that I'll be out on the street begging for spare change.When there's a really, really bad consequence for something, why do I need a reason "apart" from that?