You will believe a man over God.
The fear of man is a snare and a trap.
The fear of God is pure, leads you to knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.
The Holy Spirit of God leads you into all truth.
Your error is listening to man over Gods word. REPENT, you are self-deceived.
You were told by Jesus not to believe every spirit but to test it to see wether or not the truly are from God. You failed to obey JESUS>
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I'll decide whether to believe god when we can put him under oath and can cross-examine him. But you want us to believe a MAN who wrote down something fantastical, which was translated again and again by many other MEN, compiled by still other MEN, and interpreted for the foolish but still other men and women.
Now tell me how that differs from believing a man.
You failed to obey JESUS
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
No, some guy told me what Jesus said and said an old book contained more of what Jesus said despite admitting that a committee put said book together centuries ago. And that book is supposedly second hand accounts too, though headed by a guy who claimed to have met Jesus personally but ran into trouble with the first followers of Jesus.
I know man exists. God; not so much...
Are you scared, dearie?
The fear of God leads to oppression, persecution, witch-hunts, genital mutilations, the withholding of knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
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Have you sold all your possessions and given the money to the poor yet? No? You failed to obey JESUS!
Oh right, you want us to believe what you say, and you're a (hu)man. So, it's the usual copout, and something tells me I didn't fail to obey Jesus - only you.
Fear is a response designed to keep us safe from dangerous things.
We fear the dark because it is dangerous and full of predators. We fear fire so as not to get burned.
If your god inspires fear, it means that we're supposed to stay away.
You were told by Jesus not to believe every spirit but to test it to see wether or not the truly are from God. You failed to obey JESUS>
Funny thing is I obeyed Jesus by testing Jesus and I found he was a failure of Messiah, a sinner worse than those he condemned, and a false deity who couldn't possibly be who he and his followers claimed to be. You should do the same. After all, he said to test every spirit, right?
Your error is listening to man over Gods word. REPENT, you are self-deceived.
By that reasoning, you and every Christian is deceived. After all, Jesus was a man, right? And he told people to stop worshiping God their way and start doing things his way, which involved worshiping and praying to him. That sounds like something a liar and deceiver would do. The fact that his followers are skeptical of every other religious claim, and yet believe every word from their own particular religious claim and want it to be an exception to scrutiny is just further indication that is is false.
Face it. Satan came in the form of Jesus, and he fooled you all. You just don't want to admit what's staring you in the face.
Someone who doubts the bible is not doubting what God said. They're doubting what humans said. Even if you actually believe everything in the Bible, that would still make God be a third-person character in the Bible, NOT a first-person character. Thus the bible ITSELF does not claim to be written by God. It claims to be the word of *humans* witnessing what God did, not written by the hand of God himself. Yet for centuries liars repeatedly use the phrase "the word of God" as a tool to deflect criticism in exactly the way demonstrated here. It's a phrase designed to trick people into thinking the doubting the Bible is an act of hubris because you're doubting God's own words, when in fact what you're doubting is the claim made by the *humans* who wrote it that they were in fact witnessing God.
And yes, I mean it when I say "Liars". Because even if I'm generous and assume they actually believe everything the Bible says, that still does not lead to the conclusion that God wrote it. The books of the Bible claim to be third-person accounts of events, not first-person.
This doesn't make sense if taken literally, and seems to be missing context. I'm assuming that "fear of God" means "fear of God sending you to hell, forever" as parts of it make more sense that way, but I can't be certain that's the correct interpretation.
I was baffled by the part which implies that listening to other people and believing them amounts to self-deception? My best guess is that they're working from belief that everyone just 'knows' God's will innately, but some people choose to disbelieve it or ignore it. But again, no way to be sure.
2/10 needs a lot more clarity.
Hypocritical shit yet again.
No one worships men more then fundamentalist Christians. Their Pastors, televangelists or RW Politicians are revered as Gods voice, not to be questioned, criticized or disobeyed.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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