Your favourite Bible absurdity

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If you think I am not allowed to believe something because it is offensive to Christians then ask yourself how offensive Christianity and Bible inerrancy is to other people. The Bible asks us to believe all sorts of impossibilities and it is nothing less than an insult to our intelligence to take these things literally.

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Your choice of examples was very interesting to me. I have trouble seeing how it is "offensive" to have someone ask you to believe something that is absurd. I think most people, trying to make your point, would have used the fact that literalists believe you deserve to bake in endless torment in a lake of fire as punishment for the heinous crime of not seeing any evidence for their beliefs. Being told that you are so evil that you deserve eternal torture seems a lot more offensive than being nagged about believing something you see as absurd.I'm not trying to make a point or correct you. Your choice of how Christians are offensive just seemed pretty unusual, and I couldn't resist commenting.

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I won't apply this to all Christians, of course. I absolutely marvel at your lucidity, for example, but you are rare.

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Well, that's nice to hear, particularly from you. I'm still stinging a bit about combining posts from you and Brian in a previous thread and being rude for no good reason. Sounds like you let go of it easier than me.

Schraf, Are you sure you heard that in a Roman Catholic (or even an Orthodox) church? Official RCC doctrine is based on the councils, and the Nicene Creed, quoted in Catholic churches at every mass, says, "We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God...true God from true God." The original goes on to damn anyone who "says there was a time when the Son did not exist."It was a pretty big deal to argue about for several centuries and the "eternal Son" folks won.

Yep, me, too. Altar boy and everything.