How Open Minded Are You About The "Book?" And What Jesus Taught.......

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
But I just asked you a question. I did not ask you to write a treatise or thesis on how to achieve world peace, balance the national budget, eradicate A.I.D.S. and cancer, annihilate racism, poverty, and crime.

Wait... what is you definition of answering a question? Where you expecting me to just go "Yes/No"?

Such an answer would have failed to posses any meaning. I say yes and you probably would have labelled me a hypocrite - as it is I wouldn't say yes under the conditions implied.

I say no and you would probably think me mad - once again such an answer would fail to have any shred of meaning of the intetions behind it.

And if you think that is a thesis, well, I fear you haven't seen many. Best never to visit my home, the pages and pages of typing I do might be a bit over whelming.

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
Wait... what is you definition of answering a question? Where you expecting me to just go "Yes/No"?

Such an answer would have failed to posses any meaning. I say yes and you probably would have labelled me a hypocrite - as it is I wouldn't say yes under the conditions implied.

I say no and you would probably think me mad - once again such an answer would fail to have any shred of meaning of the intetions behind it.

And if you think that is a thesis, well, I fear you haven't seen many. Best never to visit my home, the pages and pages of typing I do might be a bit over whelming.

I think you just think "debate" 24/7. Bruh, is there a possibility to have a non-debate conversation with you?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
I think you just think "debate" 24/7. Bruh, is there a possibility to have a non-debate conversation with you?

Ok, I am confused... you post this:

Imperial Samura, how would you like to have eternal life? Jesus Christ loves you so much that He went through intense pain and suffering (prior to His crucifixion and during His suffering on the cross) so that you could go to Heaven. He would have done this just for you if you were the only person on the planet. Will you this day accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?

Logically I assume, since it is directed at me, I would have the right to answer, which I did thus:

If I didn't earn it? Not much. Even less if I was a party to so many good people being let fall simply because they didn't have faith in something that there is no proof for.

And it shouldn't be like that. Free will means nothing if I can be damned by the actions of Adam and Eve, and made feel responsible for the sacrifice of Jesus.

No. No with the problems I have with Biblical doctrine. Not with the injustice I see in it.

Seems simple to me, simply giving my view. Nothing complex. But you respond:

What ?!? You just analyzed something that did not need to be analyzed. I am very concerned for you. I have told you this before that you try to rationalize EVERYTHING. Samura, all things do not require analysis. You don't have to parse and analyze every word or phrase that is giving to you to understand and respond to it. (Man, I wonder what you were like as a kid. Nobody should be that uptight).

How that was overanalyising I don't know - I read it, and offered my thoughts on it, but apparently I didn't answer in the way you thought I should. I responded by saying that when you post like that I will debate it (and since you were directing it to me I believed I had the right to.) You thought that was to "thesis like" despite being rather simple. I responded on that and you respond:

I think you just think "debate" 24/7. Bruh, is there a possibility to have a non-debate conversation with you?

So please tell me, please do, what would have been the correct way for me to respond? What exactly were you expecting from me? Would the correct approach have simply been to agree with you? You asked a question, I answered. That happens in a conversation.

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
Ok, I am confused... you post this:

Logically I assume, since it is directed at me, I would have the right to answer, which I did thus:

Seems simple to me, simply giving my view. Nothing complex. But you respond:

How that was overanalyising I don't know - I read it, and offered my thoughts on it, but apparently I didn't answer in the way you thought I should. I responded by saying that when you post like that I will debate it (and since you were directing it to me I believed I had the right to.) You thought that was to "thesis like" despite being rather simple. I responded on that and you respond:

So please tell me, please do, what would have been the correct way for me to respond? What exactly were you expecting from me? Would the correct approach have simply been to agree with you? You asked a question, I answered. That happens in a conversation.

I have a habit of quoting posts and then responding to them whether it relates to what I am posting or not.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
I have a habit of quoting posts and then responding to them whether it relates to what I am posting or not.

Like this post here? It doesn't seem in any way related to what is going on.

You criticise my post in response to a post you directed at me while failing to specify what exactly you were expecting.

"Do I want to be saved?"

Not in the manner you describe. Simply enough? Not to thesis like?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
I have a habit of quoting posts and then responding to them whether it relates to what I am posting or not.

Yes you do, please stop doing that.

Originally posted by sonnet
Don't speak of being open minded while you are so closed minded about your (Ridiculous)opinion of Paul that you cannot see the truth.
And by the way, God tells us in the Bible to never let HIS WORD (the BIble) out of our thouhts (mind) and that it should always be in out hearts and thoughts because then only can we grow spiritualy to what He intended us to be. So to me, being open minded (open to false interpretations and doctrines) is against the word of God and exactly how Satan get people to turn their backs on the TRUTH.

Here is the problem, however.

What you are telling me, is that God does not want you to use your brain, because using your brain leads you to Satan.

Which would then, logically lead me to believe, that the so called Satan is the truth and so called God is a lie, because God is trying to cover up the truth.

Do you know how wise people get other people to understand them? By educating them on everything.

pray

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Here is the problem, however.

What you are telling me, is that God does not want you to use your brain, because using your brain leads you to Satan.

Which would then, logically lead me to believe, that the so called Satan is the truth and so called God is a lie, because God is trying to cover up the truth.

Do you know how wise people get other people to understand them? By educating them on everything.

Well said.

Originally posted by sonnet
And by the way, God tells us in the Bible to never let HIS WORD (the BIble) out of our thoughts (mind) and that it should always be in out hearts and thoughts because then only can we grow spiritually to what He intended us to be. So to me, being open minded (open to false interpretations and doctrines) is against the word of God and exactly how Satan get people to turn their backs on the TRUTH.

God tells us in the Bible to never let HIS WORD (Christ) out of our thoughts (mind) and that he should always be in out hearts and thoughts because then only can we grow spiritually to what He intended us to be.

Also, God has never suggested that his people be idiots enslaved to the Bible at the expense of other knowledge. Daniel, Shadrak, Meshak, and Abednego all learned the science that had been gathered in Babylon. One must study the information at hand, God will not lie through nature to man. Science discovers many truths, unless God lies through nature. Since God does not lie, science should be studied thoroughly, because nature is evidence of God, is it not? Man must learn everything possible.