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Your displeasure is with what God of the Bible says, not with me. I am assured by His word, that I know Him, that I am His child, that I am forgiven, I know my future with Him, and put my total faith and trust in Him and His word. I don't have to guess about some secret game plan God has up his sleeve when I die, and that it will be something different than what He says. Yes, I am totally sure. Smug is your nasty little word.

It's amazing. A person can say, look in the Bible and read this chapter or type it on the screen, and a person like you gets all bent out of shape because he doesn't agree with what God says because through his own brilliant reasoning of what he thinks God should be like he doesn't agree with it (although God says it) and thinks the person who showed it to him is all screwed up. Amazing.

Your displeasure is with what God of the Bible says, not with me.

Luckily, I don't believe in a word of the New Testament, so I am certainly not filled with "displeasure with what God ... says". And I assure you that it is your very attitude that turned me off of Christianity so many years ago.

I'm no fan of any religion what claims its got the only way to salvation. Judiasm is quite clear that it does not consider itself the sole path to G-d. That, to me, is one of its greatest draws -- the lack of smugness.