You make Christians look terribly foolish and arrogant
Indeed
Two of the universe's basic components are harmony and disharmony. Humans, an expression of the universe are capable of harmonies and disharmonies. There may also be various advanced disharmonic and harmonic beings/entities.
Our consciousness seeks to classify/mythologize/deify expressions of harmony/disharmony
For example: Every religion and belief structure on Earth
So we know the Bible is true because the Bible confirms that it is indeed infallible………….GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
The word being made flesh thing is a pretty good point.
Jesus = I am the word.
People should be imitating Christ's lifestyle because he said to
He told the rich man to sell his belongings, give the proceeds to the poor.
He told him it was impossible for a rich person to enter heaven
(Camel through eye of needle)
He told people to be ascetics, get rid of their "things" and "follow him"
And he lived plainly and without luxury for the most part, dedicating himself wholly to helping and healing others
He did not wave a torah around and constantly argue for people to refer back to it while he violated the sabbath to heal people.
He was an incredible reformer, physically repelling capitalists out of the temple.
He believed mercantilism corrupted the faith.
The opulence of the church is all wrong
If people walked in his footsteps they wouldn't need the Bible because spiritual revelation would be a part of their daily life
Jesus said "Remember to worship me."
Quick, find the verse.
Give thanks when you break bread in remembrance of him, sure.
He also said "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
Religion is helpful for the spiritually dead
Nope. Book of Thomas is really all you need. Most of that book is actually rank.
Ends justify means, that's very Machiavellian of God.
Or does that make Machiavelli rather Godly?
Hahahah that's funny, very cute and ignorant.
It's from the Nag hammadi library
The apocrypha is old testament, at least partially sourced from dead sea scrolls
I'm sure you thought you were schooling me which is fun
Semantics moron.
The Book of Thomas and all of the classic apocryphal books being grouped together and all dismissed as "Biblical Fan fiction" Just sounds about as dumb a bag of baby shit
You don't know jack shit about the Bible's authorship or history, I'm calling it
Oh man, yeah right. How incredibly blind and arrogant.
Let's compare Bhuddists and Jesuits and see if we can't sort out who has a bloodier history
You're a very silly Catholic.
I made an excellent point and you ignored it.
And now that you filter me, you can render yourself immune to criticism and stay within your little narcissistic bubble.
Bet it gets lonely