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Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 3:34pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
My father used to hit me. He would daily leave my mother to raise us kids, and I once saw him kill a helpless animal with his bare hands. With that information you could understandably come to the conclusion that my father was a tyrant. But listen to some missing information. If I ever lied or stole, my dad cared enough to correct me on the seat of my learning, and for that I greatly respected him and stayed on the straight and narrow. The reason he left my mum each day was to work hard as a carpenter and provide food for our table. And that animal he killed... It was a large bird that had been struck by a car and had been left to die on the side of the road. He put the poor animal out of its misery, and it grieved him to do so. With that knowledge you can now see that my dad wasn’t a tyrant. He was a loving and kind father. Richard Dawkins believes that God is more than just a tyrant. He said: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." But there's some missing information he's not giving you that changes everything…for those who will listen. This same morally perfect and holy Creator (whose seeming harsh judgments were always “righteous and true altogether”) became a morally perfect human being. He did this to save us from the same just wrath that spilled upon the wicked nations of the Old Testament. Most of us know that Jesus of Nazareth gave His life as a sacrifice for the sin of the world. What they don’t know is that we violated God’s Law (the Ten Commandments) and justly deserve the wrath of the moral Law, but Jesus paid our fine in full. That means that God can legally dismiss our case. He can commute our death sentence and let us live forever, because our fine was paid by Another who then rose from the dead. The same holy God who considers lust to be adultery and hatred to be murder, made provision for His great love and mercy to be extended towards those who repent and trust in the Saviour. For the Christian, the cross of Jesus Christ shows that God isn't the wicked tyrant that foolish and ignorant men make Him out to be. It is the missing information that changes everything. "Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed" (1 Timothy 6:1). www.livingwaters.com 2 Likes
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Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by cirmuell(m): 3:43pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
Mtcheew! 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 3:54pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
*going back to sleep* 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 4:28pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
The Christian religion in a picture : 2 Likes
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Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 4:34pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
Apatheist: Christianity is not a religion it's a relationship with Jesus Christ the Saviour. 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 4:36pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
Tazmode: Did you sleep well?
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Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 4:45pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:haha, mehn, u luk gud in dat monkey outfit. Whoever gave it 2u truly luvs u |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 4:55pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:Islam is not a religion, it's a relationship with allah; Hindu is not a religion, it's a relationship with vishnu and all the gods. ATR is not a religion, it's a relationship with the gods 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 4:58pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
Tazmode: Thanks for the compliment. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 5:20pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
The bible is not the word of God, saying that it is will only drive people away from God- Ali Sina |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by abdulwastecx(m): 5:49pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU: Religion is a rediculous ideology....it messed people up so badly |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by abdulwastecx(m): 5:52pm On Aug 17, 2014 |
Apatheist: Religious prophet are greatest pliagiariser of other people's idea.... so many similarity between all religion.....Hod cannot be rsoonsible for all the absurdity they force intonour throats 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:22pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Apatheist: Who told you that Muslims have a personal relationship with allah? |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:27pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Apatheist: Portions of the Bible that "make God look bad" merely reveal that you lack understanding. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 1:35pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:You're the spoke person for Muslims now? |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:37pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Apatheist: No true Muslim will tell you that they have a personal relationship with Allah. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 1:42pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:LMFAO. Should we ask? Ah, what's the point? You'll just say they're not "true Muslims" 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 2:08pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Apatheist: Not even a moderate Muslim will tell you that they have a personal relationship with their Allah. Ask them. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 2:10pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:Maclatunji Infomizer |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 2:15pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Apatheist: Where and when did they make that claim? |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Nobody: 2:16pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:I'm inviting them. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 2:20pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Apatheist: I challenge them to admit the truth. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Infomizer(m): 6:13pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:The 'truth' then is probably that not even a moderate christian will tell you that they have a personal relationship with their jehovah. Greetings @apatheist... 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Emusan(m): 6:41pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Infomizer: You were invited to tell us the relationship you/Muslims have with Allah not to turn it other way round. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 6:46pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Emusan: You just checkmated him#. Good move. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Infomizer(m): 7:05pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Emusan:I don't think so. He prolly knows i'm not a muslim. We were invited to refute olaadegbu's statement. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Infomizer(m): 7:09pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:*smiles* Apparently, you still don't geddit. Well, if it makes you sleep well sha... 1 Like |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 7:11pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Infomizer: So he conjured you up to refute my statement? How do you then intend to refute it, metaphysically? |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Emusan(m): 7:22pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Infomizer: OK! But Ola wasn't wrong anyway because relationship with God/personal encountered has been my prone challenge to Muslims and no Muslims has ever claimed to do that. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 7:26pm On Aug 18, 2014 |
Infomizer: I get it now. You agree with me that Muslims don't have a personal relationship with Allah. |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by Infomizer(m): 6:04am On Aug 19, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU: Well, I was only using your own pill on you. Why would you say such? Emusan: You probably need to redefine the word 'personal relationship'...Seems the same to me |
Re: Isn't It Blasphemous To Call The Bible "God's Word" When It Makes Him Look Bad? by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:40pm On Aug 22, 2014 |
OLAADEGBU:
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