[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]bigflamer wrote:
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
[quote]bigflamer wrote:
Ahhhh yes, traditional marriage, as defined by the “good book”.[/quote]Correction Sparky. You need the redeemed new covenant version. Ephesians 5. Caps indicate a quote from the OT as per the NASB translators. [quote]be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. 22-Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23-For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24-But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25-Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26-so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27-that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28-So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29-for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30-because we are members of His body. 31-FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. 32-This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33-Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. [/quote][/quote]
So, not only one must choose the right flavor of christianity, but one must be reading the correct version of the bible, if one doesn’t want to burn in a lake of fire…for eternity.
LOL…
But seriously, what’s your thoughts on what Deuteronomy instructing a girl to marry her rapist?
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And if you actually read the book and not your silly little atheist bloggers who think they know anything about the book, you’d know that’s not what really happened.[/quote]
Quit pretending like I’ve never read the bible; I’ve told you previously is separate threads that I have. Have I read it cover to cover? No. Have I read several of the many translations? No. Do I want to? Someday. But I have invested some time into the bible, and there was a time when I read it an hour a night before I went to bed. I told you before that at one time I was a practicing catholic; I was a lector at my parish and was committed. You told me that you didn’t give a shit about my time as a catholic. In one breath you denounce atheists for not reading the bible, then in the next you question why any atheist would. You’re inconsistent as usual.
Also, I’d wager that the many of the atheists whose works I love to read are more well versed in the bible than you are. And not just the bible, but other holy books as well. Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennett, etc.; you probably couldn’t come close to the time they’ve invested into your shitty bible, regardless of which interpretation you’re reading.
[quote]Pat wrote:
Second, I thought you were a moral relativist? So even if they did rape people I thought that cool since they felt like it.
That’s you lot believe right? It’s ok as long as you think it’s ok? So quit whining. The bible isn’t a book for atheist or for selective reading. If you don’t understand it as a whole work you don’t know shit about it. Quit trying to act like you know things you don’t.[/quote]
Why don’t you take a break from being a cunt and point me to the thread where I said that I was a moral relativist. Go ahead.
What I have talked about was ethics and morals, their differences, cultural implications, etc. Don’t get all pissed off at me just because I point out some of the shittier portions of your shitty book. “understand it as a whole work” LOL…that’s funny right there. You mean understand it while looking through the lens of a man who will accept the fairy tales on faith. Ummm…no thank you.
