re: The 501(c)(3) Trojan Horse in the American Church (another LBJ gift)

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There’s a lot of context missing in your assessment.

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Oh? I’m interested. What context am I missing? Any Bible verses, articles, books, or whatever please point me in the right direction so I can understand your point.

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if someone could answer all of your questions sufficiently, would you become a Christian?

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I have an open mind and will listen to arguments and will believe or hold in highest regard what the overwhelming preponderance of evidence points to as being most likely. At this point in my life I’ve had the opportunity to study the Bible and other non canonical texts plus a fair amount of ancient history. I can see how the first 4 books of the Torah was pieced together from earlier Samarian, Judean, and Levite texts, and how the Levite chronicler re-wrote and intended to erase the “history” of Samuel through Kings. I can see how second temple Judaism was created by the Persians as a condition of their return from captivity, and how the remnants of the first temple cult became the Christians. I can see how the there was a diversity of views amongst early Christians - some sects believed Jesus was YHWH incarnate (like modern Christianity) but yet some others believed Jesus was not YHWH nor YHWHs son and that it was YHWH who was actually the Devil. I do still like to learn and plan to do so. Wherever that takes me it’s going to have to be fine. I can’t will myself to believe obvious deceptions in the Bible nor can I ignore proven science of heliocentrism and spherical earth. I can’t ignore biology or evolution for the two crackpot contradictory accounts of creation in Genesis 1 and 2. The Bible says disease is caused by demonic possession, but if I’m sick I’m going to go to a medical doctor, not a priest.

How did life begin? No idea. Maybe el Elyon did create life or create us in some way. Even in Genesis there were other people besides the ones YHWH created. Who the hell was Cain scared of and running from that he thought would kill him? Who’d he build a city for? Shite, there were only 3 people at that point that came from YHWH. If you believe the story, then there had to be many others probably created by other Gods.

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you need a heart transplant

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In biblical days, they thought the heart was the mind and thinking organ of the person. The Egyptians, Persians, or Greeks may have known, but not the people in the desert between the great empires always a drought away from the collapse of society.

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Only God can provide that. I pray His mercy finds you.

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He sure did a poor job. Mr. all Knowing all Powerful deity can’t convince people he is real, and can’t convince others to stop killing each other in his name. Maybe I just need to ride to Damascus so that he can appear to me in a vision.