IM Horny said:
Fear of what follows death (if anything) may cause people to embrace "God", but it's rather odd that they think being in God's clutches would be a good thing. Isn't God supposed to have flooded the world, drowning all of its inhabitants indiscriminately? The Muslim terrorists haven't done anything that bad yet, and I doubt that they ever will! Even the worst ones would spare the Muslims. God spared nobody! Do you know why Moses was finally killed (by God?)? Because God commanded Moses to strike some gully or something once, and Moses struck it twice. That was a reason to kill Moses? Didn't God let Jesus suffer a horrible death? Somewhere in the Bible, I read this myself, God says that a man must not cut the hair off the sides of his face. Elsewhere, it's supposed to say a man shall be stoned to death for growing the wrong crops. So, the Bible portrays God sometimes as cruel, and sometimes merely as irrational. Here's where the religious zealot would say the Bible has many parables and passages not to be taken literally. How convenient! Any book (inlcluding the Satanic Bible) can be made to sound good if someone can simply throw out the parts that don't suit him or her! At the end of the day, the zealot will take whatever suits him in the Bible and insist on adherence to it (such as the cruel killing of animals for meat) and toss out as "a parable" anything that doesn't suit him. If the Bible told all to give 10% of their income to the poor, would good Christians be doing it? I doubt it. They would find a way around it. They've used the Bible to justify something selfish and cruel (such as killing animals), but they wouldn't use the Bible to justify something unselfish and kind.
WRONG. OH, how so very, very wrong. If you're going to make an attempt to quote from the Scripture, then I emphatically suggest you get the quotation CORRECT? Understood?
God did not
KILL Moses... he simply punished him by preventing from crossing into the Promised Land to which he had led the Israelites.
Numbers 12:20
God commands Moses to produce water from a rock by speaking to it, but, irritated with the people’s complaints, Moses hits the rock with his staff. This act of negligence bars Moses from entering the very promised land to which he has guided the Israelites for almost half a century. He died because of his explosive temper. God prevented him from entering the Promised Land. Moses, in full strength, died atop Mount Nebo gazing into the land of Israel with great sadness.
In Genesis, God commanded Noah to to build an ark and gather all animals up, two by two, because He would flood the world for forty days and nights. He commanded this of Noah because He saw man had become sinful, prideful, and warlike in his ways. The world had become corrupted with sin.
Genesis chapter 6 gives four reasons why God sent the Flood:
1. 'The wickedness of man was great in the earth' (v. 5).
2. 'Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually' (v. 5).
3. 'The earth was filled with violence' (v. 11).
4. 'The earth...was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth' (v. 12). (All the people on earth had corrupted their way.)
The historical biblical record states, 'And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt' (Genesis 6:12). This is in sharp contrast to God's declaration when he had finished creating the heaven and the earth, namely, 'And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good' (Genesis 1:31). It is astounding to consider that in the tenth generation from Adam the human race had become so wicked, evil, violent and corrupt that it was not fit to go on living. And of all mankind only four men and four women were spared, because they did not go with the great sin drift.
IM Horny - if you're going to quote something or attempt to use it in an argument, I highly suggest you get your facts straight... cause if you don't, I
WILL make you look the incompetent fool. In this instance, though, you did it to yourself.
I normally don't even bother to answer these threads simply because I know that the majority of you people will stand up and make a mockery of my beliefs. So what's the point? However, in the above instance, I've made an exception for this individual and his ignorance and deliberate misinterpretations of the Word. Say what you will, but I take great exception to this post... even if no other person on here does.
If anyone has anything to say to me in a negative manner, handle it by private messages, please. I don't want to argue dogma in a thread that's solely designed to instigate fights and encourage flaming people for their beliefs.
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