Don't personalize this and use a self-pity defense. Just because you dress up your posts with nicer words doesn't mean they don't have self-righteous know it all attitude.
Using "nicer" words is an act of respect to honor and show value towards the person you're speaking with.
I will continue to do it because people are valuable no matter what their belief system is.
Attack the arguments, don't start saying I don't know anything about your beliefs. I was raised christian and went to a christian school, so if I don't know anything about it then neither does the majority of christians.
Excellent. I think you're catching on now.
To be clear, going to church or Sunday school does not mean that you know anything at all about the Bible. I know this is hard for some to believe but it is absolutely true.
If you knew even the fundamentals about Bible prophecy, then you would know that the Bible prophecies about this very thing happening at the same time as other related events begin to unfold.
We are in the "last days".
This is the kind of thing that tries to sound deep, but it is completely empty.
You are completely wrong. This statement is absolutely true.
The reason this statement is true is that the fundamental problem with understanding truth is that we—as humans—often have the tendency to impose our our emotional spin onto the interpretation of information, and we usually do this to our advantage, or better said, in a selfish or self serving way.
When we examine ourselves and get to know ourselves, we will begin to realize how often we do this and hence begin to learn how incredibly selfish we are. Then, after we are aware of this tendency, we will be able to better decipher information without imposing our spin.
This self examination also allows us to see how accurate the Bible is when is speaks about our selfish nature, plus, this skill allows us to understand our interaction with others better.
I have taken the time to get know myself and found much selfishness that had to be purged and it has made me a much more compassionate and understanding person, although the self-examination continues and will continue until I die.
This experience has also made me acutely aware of the selfishness of others and has been extremely eye opening.
But you are also making money selling herbs or books, so your acts are not completely pure/altruistic
I calculated the amount of money I make selling herbs for you once before on another thread (do you remember?) and it came out to be something like $3 per hour.
To reiterate, I could be making $70K yearly (easily) in an IT job or about $100K designing embedded systems (small computers), instead, I spend part of my day defending my belief system and attempting to help people recover from what the powers-that-be have cruelly and selfishly imposed toward unaware people for their own purposes.
Helping people is not entirely selfless as I certainly do enjoy it, but I also think it's more important than designing electronic systems.
I currently work
over 14 hours per day and make about $4 per hour do what I'm currently doing. I also usually eat while I work (as I am doing at this moment).
