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To: unlearner
Not believing the Bible is not so much an issue of intellect as an issue of faith and morality.

Faith yes, morality no. Intellect says that the bible is not literally true, but that does not stop numerous people and faiths from simultaneously embracing intellect and the bible. Fundamentalists of all religions require the rejection of intellect.

People attack the Bible or agree with attackers of the Bible because it suits their lifestyle.

What about the numerous people who attack it because they believe that it is false, and/or because they have been taught that some other holy book is revealed truth.

Self-righteous, unrepentant people do not want to have their sinfulness reproved and exposed.

Most of the self-righteousness and presumed moral superiority comes from the believers who largely appear to be smugly self-satisfied in their fast track to eternal bliss that is denied to 99+% of humanity according to their beliefs.

God can forgive your sins if you come to Him in humility. Or do you think you have no need of forgiveness?

We are all sinners, as I understand it God made us so we can be no other. Why do we require His forgiveness for being the way that we were born to be? The only answers I ever see for this are doubletalk.

586 posted on 01/23/2005 11:26:02 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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To: Thatcherite
Surely you will at least admit that SOME people reject the Bible without any serious inquiry just because they do not want to abide by the standards it teaches.

"We are all sinners, as I understand it God made us so we can be no other. Why do we require His forgiveness for being the way that we were born to be? The only answers I ever see for this are doubletalk."

This really gets to the heart of the matter. Do you believe people have the ability to make choices or that everything is fate?
595 posted on 01/23/2005 11:48:14 AM PST by unlearner
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