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I'll post these scriptures here Viva, as well. As you said, "Either you believe what Scripture says or you do not. It's very simple." I'm not trying to dump on you, but your posts are quite antagonistic with those whom you don't agree. It's quite sad, actually. Your zeal for God is admirable, but the way you are going about it reminds me of Paul, prior to his conversion to Christianity. I do not see in you the meekness of God's Spirit. And I blame some of this on the Christians or church which you must be affiliating yourself with.

God foresees that some individuals, in this case you Viva, will use their Biblical knowledge as a means to "beat the sheep" and judge others, and Jesus instructs us: "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:5):

1 Corinthians 13

(1) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. (2) If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (3) If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. (4) Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (5) It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. (6) Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. (7) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (8) Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. (9) For we know in part and we prophesy in part, (10) but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. (11) When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. (12) Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (13) And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.