All hail scientific studies from questionable sources.
This from someone who no doubt takes the bible as "truth", even though it is rife with contradictions, which is understandable given its many authors and editors and outright fabricators. ( there are many histories of that book which can show what parts of that compilation come from [possible] original sources and which have been changed or added-in later... but of course anyone who would question the word of God must be automatically a "questionable source"... God wouldn't lie or play ticks right?
"I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by; I let them become defiled through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD." [Ezekiel 20:25-26]
Whoops!
And that Old Testament God is nothing like a psychopath either.
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It is great to have a dogma to live by that allows you to do anything you want just by being selective over which verse you choose to follow in any given moment.
And what is even more wonderful is that it doesn't matter what you do... you just have to say you accept Christ as your Lord and Saviour and bingo you have won
yourself a first class seat in heaven!
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith . . . not by works." [Ephesians 2:8-9]
Woot!
One just needs to conveniently ignore other sections of that consistent and authoritative book of God:
"What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? . . .
Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." [James 2:14-17]
"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done." [Revelation 22:12]
Note I am not attacking Christians here, or Christianity. I know lots of Christians who are not intolerant hypocritical assholes...
and it is one of the worst kinds of hypocrite, isn't it, who condemns others as evil for not being a follower of Jesus while not
only not being able to do that himself but taking a righteous stance to refuse to even try.
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"Behold, I am coming soon"?
How long ago did he say that? That guy is as bad as MNW.