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Author Topic:   Why would God write a book of lies and why would you worship such a being?
Larni
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Message 11 of 86 (670031)
08-08-2012 6:20 AM


Good Question
I think this is a good question.
As far as I'm aware Christians know their god via the Bible and that his character traits and behaviour patterns are rather explicitly layed out for all to see.
A litteral reading (to my admittedly un-scholarly approach) seems to indicate Yaweh is a jealous god who's love for his people is conditional
If these conditions are not met you go to Hell with all the dogs and wizards.
Now, when I was growing up all I ever heard was about how loving Yaweh is. That only real bastards went to Hell and it was just and right that these villains were condemed.
So my take is this: the Bible was and is a very, very strict set of rules for achieving the conditions Yaweh demands to keep you outr of Hell. Back in the day, these strictures were fine, but nower days killing members of the gay community or rape victims is frowned upon.
Consequently the inconvenient 'follow Yaweh's rules or go to Hell' became 'be generally nice and you will get to Heaven'.
I suspect most Christians don't know about Leviticus 20:13 and the like and edit out the gruesome bits where Yaweh demands babies be killed and genocide to the point where they are not following the 'official' Yaweh but their own culturally derived moral relativism and simply calling it 'Christianity'.
So techinically they are worshipping their version of Yaweh, rather than the Yaweh described in the Bible.
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The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
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The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation
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Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.
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