I was hoping that someone here would chime in with an unanticipated response to my question for Bex about the Bible. I fully expected to hear every dodge of the issue possible: "What do you heathen know about the Bible, we are the experts, we know the truth and you don't, you are full of slander and blasphemy . . ." Yep, I think I've heard most versions of this now.
See here is another example of Linda, once again, making pointless accusations that make little sense and simply come from her own confusion and frustration. The issues have not been dodged, but she simpy cannot read a post properly. I'll try again, but it's getting tiring. The ommissions and sins of either unbelievers or even believers, has no impact on the word of God. That remains constant and true, no matter how much the rest fail at keeping every commandment/rule given. Hair covering included.
My question was simple. Do you do everything the Bible tells you to? DO you? No, you don't. Not unless you cover your head in church, sacrifice the appointed animals on the appointed days, and other things that it says in Deuteronomy to do. Therefore, you have made a choice about what in the Bible is pertinent to us today. I was not trying to insinuate anything about the animal sacrifice example other than to point out that it isn't done today, and for obvious reasons. Therefore, since no one does every single thing the Bible tells them to do,
See, it's comments like this that astound me. This is inexcusable. Accusing people from a standpoint of ignorance such as this as though you (of ALL people) are in any kind of position to do so. Are you aware that animal sacrifice wasin the old testament, but was not required once the sacrifice of Christ replaced all need to sacrifice animals for sin? The blood sacrifice then became God Himself! I guess you didn't even know that did you Linda? Yet you judged us all on here from your atheistic pedestal regardless. Animal sacrifice was not required, Christ covered ALL sin. Whether a person accepts that or not is another story. THey can reject that sacrifice, but in doing so, reject all that is of God. Nobody can come to the Father except through the Son. That was done out of love for our own good.
When Christ came, the old testament ways of an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth was altered due to His sacrifice. He has told us to forgive those who persecute us (He Himself was persecuted). If we do not forgive others, how then can we be forgiven? The old rule of those days was altered by the sacrifice of Christ. However, the "old rule" does not refer to the commandments and Christ has made that very clear. They matter as much now as they do then.
Your bias and your ignorance and preaching from such a position, is why people need to be very very wary. Certainly your past comments on here in respect to the bible and Christianity in general has exposed the same and you continue to do it. The entire message of the bible seems to be missed completely by you and Linear and I believe deliberately. It is not up for your mis-interpretation. God doesn't mislead anybody, His words are clear and again, I will repeat, the literal interpretation of the creation of our origins, connects with the literal interpretation of the literal death and ressurrection. Literal sin. How can any of this be symbolic? To state as such is heresy. And unfortunately we have quite a few heretics around, within my church and elsewhere. The liberals who seek to undermine and symbolise God's word according, again, to their whims and fancies. To tickle the ears of their listeners and to appeal to the evolutionists.
It's just unfortunate that I allow you to waste my time in having to pretty much repeat myself because you refuse to read properly or gain any basic understanding, yet Russ, CTD and Laura don't seem to have such problems.
