In Reply to: Re: once again posted by JSP on February 27, 2006 at 13:38:59:
After believing stuff "on faith" that didn't make sense, I now have to analyze and examine everything and if doesn't make sense, I simply don't believe it until it does. If the bible has so many different interpretations, why should I believe any of them if they don't make sense?
I just read this great quote:
"In discussing questions of this kind two rules are to be observed, as Augustine teaches. The first is, to hold to the truth of Scripture without wavering. The second is that since Holy Scripture can be explained in a multiplicity of senses, one should adhere to a particular explanation only in such measure as to be ready to abandon it if it be proved with certainty to be false, lest Holy Scripture be exposed to the ridicule of unbelievers, and obstacles be placed to their believing." - Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
The problem with too many Christians is that they cannot "abandon" anything they have been taught is true or else they think it will deny their faith. We got into that trap with Berg, and yet he screwed the scriptures up left and right - but that was for his own gain.
I simply do not believe that a just God would "send people to hell for not beleiving in him" - it doesn't make sense to me. Otherwise, it's not a kind of God I want to follow.