[Simon Tam]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

Follow your conscience it wil not steer you wrong.

[A Follower]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

The atheist empathy argument is easy to refute.

I will give an example:
Suppose an atheist kid gets bullied at school, he gets depressed and ends up with suicidal thoughts. At that moment his empathy and conscience tell him not only that he wants to die, but that all other people must also want to die. The result? Yet another school shooting by an atheist.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

Pastor, I want to thank you for stating the truths. So many naysayers in the world today and it only seems to be getting worse. Why don't people take the time to read the Bible? To of read it and removed all doubt is such a weight off of my mind. Faced with new situations from time to time, I already know what is the right thing to do.
Praise Jesus...Amen

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

Well, according to your observations in your original post, gay people and non-Christians can live normal, happy lives without being a detriment to society, women are equal to men, and eating shellfish won't kill you.

I am just trying to show you that listening to the Bible when your observations clearly show you otherwise is absolutely ridiculous.

The Bible doesn't say that gay people and non-Christians can't live normal, happy lives without being a detriment to society -- it says that God thinks their lifestyle is an abomination.

The Bible doesn't say that women aren't as capable as men -- it says that God wants women to obey men.

The Bible doesn't say that eating shellfish will kill you -- it says that God doesn't want us to eat them.

So you have yet to provide me an example where the Bible contradicts my own observations.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[Elizabeth]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

You are being ridiculous, Elizabeth. Your argument is basically this: If the Bible says something that I know for a fact isn't true, would I believe the Bible anyway? For that argument to work, there would have to be something in the Bible that is false, but there isn't. If the premise of an "if" statement is false, then the conclusion is utterly meaningless. Simple predicate calculus can tell you that.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

Well, according to your observations in your original post, gay people and non-Christians can live normal, happy lives without being a detriment to society, women are equal to men, and eating shellfish won't kill you.

I am just trying to show you that listening to the Bible when your observations clearly show you otherwise is absolutely ridiculous.

[JennyD]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

If you were looking at a blue piece of paper, but the Bible told you were looking at a red piece of paper, which would you believe?

If you answer blue, you are using reason, which is supposedly the greatest enemy of faith.

If you answer red, you are absolutely retarded.

How exactly would the Bible know what color piece of paper I'm looking at? And how do you know that I'm not partially colorblind?

There are so many unanswered questions, Elizabeth.

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

If you were looking at a blue piece of paper, but the Bible told you were looking at a red piece of paper, which would you believe?

If you answer blue, you are using reason, which is supposedly the greatest enemy of faith.

If you answer red, you are absolutely retarded.

You are being ridiculous, Elizabeth. Your argument is basically this: If the Bible says something that I know for a fact isn't true, would I believe the Bible anyway? For that argument to work, there would have to be something in the Bible that is false, but there isn't. If the premise of an "if" statement is false, then the conclusion is utterly meaningless. Simple predicate calculus can tell you that.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[Ugly_Kid_Joe]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

If you were looking at a blue piece of paper, but the Bible told you were looking at a red piece of paper, which would you believe?

If you answer blue, you are using reason, which is supposedly the greatest enemy of faith.

If you answer red, you are absolutely retarded.

Where in the Bible do you see that a blue piece of paper is actually red?
Please do quote it.

[Elizabeth]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

If you were looking at a blue piece of paper, but the Bible told you were looking at a red piece of paper, which would you believe?

If you answer blue, you are using reason, which is supposedly the greatest enemy of faith.

If you answer red, you are absolutely retarded.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

I think I found a perfect picture for your perfect sermon. It's from a Church I visited once in Alabama:

[H. Montague Worthington]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

i gives this classick thread a 2009 bump, cuz Pastor Billy-Rooobin preach them timeless true christain™ truths

Thank you Petal, and thank you Pastor Billy R! I read this thread aloud to my wife Delores, and we both said a prayer of thanks for the wisdom we received from hearing these wise words spoken again, particularly at the start of a new year.

BLESSINGS!

[Petal]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

i gives this classick thread a 2009 bump, cuz Pastor Billy-Rooobin preach them timeless true christain™ truths

[Magnum Innominandum]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

The Bible does indeed prescribe the death penalty for the unsanctioned rape of a betrothed woman. However, the Biblical penalty for the unsanctioned rape of an unbetrothed female is a mere slap on the wrist. (Deuteronomy 22:28-29, Brick Testament.

You've hit the nail or fabled G-spot upon the head, as always. I've been raped many times, and so I can witness to the immense gulf between sanctioned and unsanctioned rapers. There was a tremendous difference between the rapers the doorman let in and the porch monkeys climbing the fire escape.

I am a redhead, and our species is often referred to in parts of Europe as those who burned Jerusalem. (Tangentially -- Adolf, too, had a thing for Barbarossa.) Seeking the sole remaining Aramaic-speaking village by bus from Damascus, I got lost and ended up in a hamlet of Sand Negroes where most everyone had once been exterminated by Crusaders (Praise!).

Desperately needing to urinate and not wanting to pull my tallywacker out in public, I strode into the ruins of some castle to relieve myself. Finished with my business, I was on my way back out when I encountered two prepubescent Sand Negroes. Both had accidents and soaked their Adidas.

Pitying them was cause for reflection -- because they were suffused with folk tales about what the Godly Crusaders had done to their ancestors, I represented a primordial threat to these small savages. Their great-grandmothers had no doubt passed down tales about large pale people with ruddy beards indulging in slaughter -- when the actual white persons of yore and lore were merely engaged in liberation.

The lesson to me was that (a) all savages are childlike and should be treated as such, and (b) one can always slam them against the wall and explain. Even in the supposedly enlightened metropolises rife with white metrosexuals, there are women who are so degraded by secular liberalism that they can't tell the difference between sanctioned and unsanctioned rape, for example. If they were properly betrothed, their husbands could help them make the distinction.

Sincerely,
Magna, née Magnus

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

All this time, I've been following my conscience... I NEED to get a Bible (KJV ) ASAP.

Also, if you look at conscience, just noticed, randomly... Conscience

The Word of God can be had for free if you just visit your local Independant Baptist Church and ask the Pastor for one. Make sure you ask specifically for a KJV1611 Authorized Version Bible.

Also you can read one online at www.biblegateway.com. And for your assisted reading pleasure, Brother V has got a wonderful thread going HERE called "Bible in a Year."


Good luck!

[ISuckTheWiiUp]

Re: Follow the Word of God, not your "conscience"

All this time, I've been following my conscience... I NEED to get a Bible (KJV ) ASAP.

Also, if you look at conscience, just noticed, randomly... Conscience