Ok, TruthSeeker,
I’m in a better mettle tonight, than I was yesterday.
Please refer to your previous post # 241, top of page 17, to me, to see what I rebut. If I include your post in mine, it’s way over 6,000 characters.
You misinterpret me. I’m saying, if it weren’t for God Most HIgh the Holy Trinity, I would have died shortly after childbirth and several times after that. I weighed 3 1/2 pounds at birth and was in an incubator for three months. If I’d been born a century earlier, I would have died. If I’d been born in this century, I could have been thrown out as too much trouble, and died, the attitude that toward handicapped babies, that’s becoming prevalent nowadays. I believe that God works through people. Too many times in my life I could have died: night cab driver, night watchman and such; but God answering my faith in Him has spared me death several times.
One of my best friends is an atheist and my twin is an agnostic. We get along because I don’t preach at them and they don’t question my faith: that’s my freedom of choice, to believe the Holy Bible (which I consider documentation of God’s existence) and to believe the tradition of our Church.
Now, as far as God killing people. I say again, He is the resurrection. When He takes life, he will give it back on Resurrection Day. Humans can’t do that. That’s why it’s immoral for us to kill but not for Him. He can return what He takes, we can’t.
Yes, I have developed mental defenses to protect my faith. It’s worth living and dying for. Maybe your faith wasn’t worth that to you, but mine is, to me.
I Peter 3, 15: is a part of a greater exhortation. If you had practiced the whole passage, you would still be Christian. Maybe that’s your problem. Maybe you were a theist, instead of seeking a good relationship with your Creator.
Skeptics shred their own faith with too many questions. That’s a trap. I don’t let Satan nor his followers lead me into that trap. I claim again, there is good and evil in this world. There are many explanations for that. I accept the Christian explanation because I accept Jesus Christ and His followers.
I have been waiting for you to bring up God benevolence, again. I believe in an Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent God. These are His traditional attributes, when He is reverently spoken of. Nowhere, for 4,000 years, has God ever been called allbenevolent. He is compassionate. He is merciful. And these things are so wonderful because He can be wrathful. That’s a good part of His supernature. I love that butt kicking OT God, because He can slam down Satan and his minions. So, I will not do such a foolish thing as deeply insulting Him by saying He doesn’t exist, when I know better.
I know that Jesus died and rose from the death because I have documentation of anecdotal evidence that He did in both Biblical and secular tomes.
I have evidence that you have thrown out.
I have answered, from time to time, many questions from my atheist friend. But, not in consecutive days of sitting. That would have been abusive. Have you been subjected to continuous daily inquisitions about your faith?
No TruthSeeker, I have asked myself the questions necessary for my belief in God Most HIgh the Holy Trinity. I think you have been misled to raise a too high standard of questions, for your belief.
I have gone back to page 12 of this thread to your post # 166 and reread your questions. I have already answered two of them in other of my posts. I won’t repeat myself, here, for you.
But, as far as Psalm 137, 9 in the Challoner version of the Douay - Rheims Holy Bible, it’s Psalms 136, 9, where he blesses the one who takes the whore of Babylon’s children and dashes the infants against rocks, those were pure evil babies, through and through, even from their time in the womb.
In Duet 22, 28 & 29, of a rapist marrying his victim, is in the context of the way things were in the Bronze Age, not our age. In other than Hebrew culture, rapists were used to doing their thing and going their way, maybe even killing the girl, and not have to answer for it. That was all ok in non-Hebrew cultures. If you don’t read history and anthropological documentaries for yourself, don’t expect me to detour to teach you at this late date. Things were horrible, then.
Again, Duet 28, 53 prophecies in context of a larger passage that adults will have nothing else to eat, but their children. If they don’t change their ways. You left that part out, the option of changing their ways to be saved from their own iniquity of eating their children.
In my Challoner Douay-Rheims, the passage of Elisha and the boys and bears is in 4 Kings, 2, 23 and 24. What I see, is a gang of 42 youths badgering a man of God during the Bronze Age. To the best of my knowledge of gangs, Elisha was in peril for his life, from those 42 boys. Just because they taunted him…the first step of working themselves up to kill him.
I live in a neighborhood where people are killed for initiation into a gang. Don’t tell me about assuming what a gang of 42 boys can or cannot do.
God protected His man who believed in Him, nothing wrong with that.
So, there, I have answered all your questions, to my satisfaction. I don’t guarantee that my answers can come anywhere near satisfying your excessive questioning.
You have no evidence against my belief. All you have is evidence of your disbelief. Don’t expect me to see only what you can see, entrapped in the pit of skepticism. And, yes, it would be immoral for me to question the Almighty God of Islam, since He’s also the Almighty God of Judaism and Christianity. I do question the reliability of Mohamed, though. He was only a man.
No, my leaving you up to our Savior was a blessing, for in this life; not a threat about any afterlife. Because He says, “I have not come to condemn the world, but to save it.”
