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Originally Posted by Vasilis
you have faith to things you can not prove or understand. I don't rely on faith in scientists! Scientist can prove that something exists/happens etc
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Yes, but, God doesn't like that:
1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Knowledge is not good:
1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
That's basically because God created logic and the scientific method to be able to send more people to Hell:
1 Corinthians 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Feel free to click on the link in my signature if you want to know more reasons why God hates rational thinking.
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I have faith in Holy Spirit but I cannot prove it exists! That's the difference.
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The proof that you seek is in Holy Bible.
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Though God made the oceans, God created these "disgusting creatures".
Who are you who are going to judge God's creations?!?!?!
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Are you trying to convince me that you like the mosquitoes that give you the Zika virus and you like the fungi that infect you feet and you like the bacteria and viruses that give you other diseases?
I mean, you wouldn't like to judge God's creations, right?
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Greeks kowtow images where saints are represented. It has been a whole war during Bynaztine ages about that!
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Yeah, but I do not think that the iconoclasts won that argument, dear.
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We don;t worship the image but the person represented in it!
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That's an easy thing to say for a theologian or an intellectual, but if you ask simple people they'll tell you something else.
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We own a lot to ancient Greeks.
I am Greek but not obsessed at all!
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It's called bias, dear.
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Originally Posted by Vasilis
How you can know what God intended?
Can't 4 corners be North, East, South, West? Bible is not literary written, it contains many parabolas and also Christ used to talk like this.
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Jesus is quite clear when He speaks in parables. However, saying that the Bible is not meant to be taken literary opens a door to way too many interpretations - including the interpretation that it was all just invented to make people feel better about themselves. Even without going to that extreme, how do you know which parts are to be treated literally and which not? Is the existence of Jesus to be treated literally? Are His Words (aside from parables) to be read literally? That is a dangerous slope and we do not accept any of that post-modernistic interpretations here.
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And who I am who is going to judge someone else?!?!?!
If I remember correctly only God can judge people....
Am I mistaken?
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by Vasilis
I don't read the Old Testament.
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I have addressed that problem in your introduction thread.