• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        vor 2 Jahren

        I used to be a Christian so I like to think I know my hermeneutics.

        That said, this post just goes to show how wildly a simple book can be interpreted. I wasn’t a Seventh Day Adventist. I was a Calvinist.

        It shows just how confident you can be in absolutely nothing.

        When you really look into scripture, you come to realize it’s a book filled with words with no real truth outside of some dudes wrote it.

          • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            vor 2 Jahren

            God also told me that you’re going to hell for being a Seventh Day Adventist. He inspired me to write it down and everything.

            So you got that going for you.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
            1·
            vor 2 Jahren

            Not really, God told those dudes what to write

            I see. So you have an explanation of why God changes his mind about the details, why there are so many variants in the texts, and why some random Letters, Epistles, and Gospels are missing? If God choosr to write a book why is he so bad at the task?

              • supamanc@lemmy.world
                7·
                vor 2 Jahren

                One can’t chose to believe something, you either believe it or you don’t. I don’t believe in God because there is no evidence for it, and nothing that cannot be explained without God, and no explanation involving God which isn’t made more complicated by His involvement. If God exists, and he did in fact create me, then he made me this way, incapable of belief without proof. So his choice is that I no be ‘with him’. I have no fee will.

                  • supamanc@lemmy.world
                    3·
                    vor 2 Jahren

                    Nothing you’ve said there constitutes an argument against any of my points. You don’t provide any evidence, just state a belief that it exists. You don’t address exactly how I can chose to believe in something. Nor how if I was created by God, said God must have invested me with scepticism, which in turn prevents my belief in said God.