Hello Everybody:
Once upon a time, I was a child whose mother's father was a Presbyterian minister, and in whose home I lived for the first 7 years of my life. Then I was a step-child of a back-sliden Catholic step-father. Later, I was a baptized Protestant. Eventually, I was a back-sliden adult Protestant who superficially converted to Catholicism. So I was then a back-sliden Protestant who was also a back-sliden Catholic. In short, a double hypocrite.
This situation prevailed until what some would call a "mid-life crisis" occurred. I studied some Protestant apologetics and became convinced that Christianity was correct; but that most Christian denominations had become incorrect, in one way or another, to one extent of another. So I became a self-supporting itinerant preacher, and travelled the US for 5 years, coast to coast and border to border, twice over.
I seriously doubt that anybody learned anything of value from me during that time, but I learned from other people, and from God. One thing I learned was that not only had the Christian denominations become incorrect in one way or another, to one extent of another, but the Bible had also become incorrect. This discovery is the subject of another thread called "Bible errancy".
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Hello and welcome. Look forward to seeing what you have to say.
Society and its morals evolve and will continue to evolve. The bible however remains the same and just requires more and more apologetics and claims of "metaphors" and "symbolism" to justify it.
Prayer is like rubbing an old bottle and hoping that a genie will pop out and grant you three wishes.
There is much about this world that is mind boggling and impressive, but I see no need whatsoever to put it down to magical super powered beings.
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Well, you will be an except to the norm. Most people are running on automatic, and they automatically reject anything new.OnceConvinced wrote:Hello and welcome. Look forward to seeing what you have to say.
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I disagree. Some of us automatically reject old stuff too. That is how skepticism works. Try to reject everything. Those ideas which just cannot be rejected no matter how hard you try, merit provisional acceptance. So, don't take it personally.thisgoodriddle wrote:Well, you will be an except to the norm. Most people are running on automatic, and they automatically reject anything new.OnceConvinced wrote:Hello and welcome. Look forward to seeing what you have to say.
Examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
First Epistle to the Church of the Thessalonians
The truth will make you free.
Gospel of John
First Epistle to the Church of the Thessalonians
The truth will make you free.
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taking things personally...
Post #6Haha:) No, I didn't take it personal. Enjoy.McCulloch wrote:I disagree. Some of us automatically reject old stuff too. That is how skepticism works. Try to reject everything. Those ideas which just cannot be rejected no matter how hard you try, merit provisional acceptance. So, don't take it personally.thisgoodriddle wrote:Well, you will be an except to the norm. Most people are running on automatic, and they automatically reject anything new.OnceConvinced wrote:Hello and welcome. Look forward to seeing what you have to say.
