Bit of Blasphemy on a Thursday Morn...

[a_careless_risk]

After reading several sections of the Bible for my Secular and Sacred class, i came to the realization that most churches have it wrong. God does not love you unconditionally. Jesus may, but if you tick off God... that's a problem. There are numerous incidents in the Bible where God gets angry and threatens to / or kills several people. Also, He

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[silentfires]

Yay! Becca has the same complaints as everyone else!

(Unfortunately, I'm sure every religion has its own answer for why each of those things is okay...)

I was going to go through and refute everything you said...

[amanduh7486]

but I honestly just don't feel like it. I'll just say that I don't think that the Bible is internally conflicted at all and I've read quite a bit of it myself including the things that you claim are conflicting. I will give you that today's church in general does have a lot wrong though.

Anyway, I just wanted to share something kind of funny... I'm at the office and I was reading your post when the phone rang... and I guess I was still processing the last sentence I had read and so I accidentally answered the phone "Boston Blackboard, may I kill you?" Hahaha... good thing it happened to be Alex. Oiy, how embarassing.

It just kinda one of those things...

[anonymous]

It's just kinda one of those things where you can nitpick and find problems with things if you think that there's problems there but at the same time if you don't think that there's consistency issues, then there's perfectly good explanations as to how it all fits