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Quote by: Isherwood  I just love how the Bible has an escape clause to excuse believers any time they get challenged with hard questions. |
Aye, and I've posed some hard questions myself that I have yet to see any reply to other than the usual anti-Christian drivel. For that matter, I've yet to hear back from the original poster thanking me for clearly and concisely answering his question. Could it be that he didn't really want an answer in the first place?
Look Ish... I can no more abandon my faith than you can give up your attachment to post-modern materialistic atheism. Just between you, me and everyone else that reads this, there's a lot of things in the bible that I wish weren't there. Especially the stuff connected with this thread. I'm not, by nature, a sexually moral man. These issues are really tough for me. I've made a number of homosexual friends throughout my time on this Earth and I'm not one to turn my back on them just because of their sexual orientation, but at the same time, I can't ignore that God has severely denounced their practice. My own love-life has been less than sterling in the past (two failed marriages and a host of concubines) and now I live a life of celebacy with no relief in sight. But when this thing (
religion) entered my heart and my head, I had to accept the stuff I did like along with the stuff I didn't. I have a strong background in science (astronomy/anthropology) but I can't honestly say that the Genesis account is not but myth.
My point: I can't un-know what I now know. Folks can (and do) try to kick my faith out from under me all the time but they never seem to realize how precariously perched they are themselves.