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You'd think, god, being all powerful, would have done an update, so people wouldn't need professional assistance to understand what he's trying to tell us.

First we had to translate it from hebrew and greek, then to Latin and then to modern languages, then figure out what it meant in the context of the times, etc, etc.[/quote]

Or he could just put the divine equivalent of a microchip in our heads, the way you tlk. Fortunately, however, that's not how it works. He gave us intelligence and free will, and he wants us to use them.[/quote]

How do you know?  Because it says so in the bible?  How about all the awful stuff?  what to do about that/

Imagine a computer manual or a child care book that had some carefully explained, excellent instruction and advice, interspersed with a bunch of misinformation and terrible advice, written in a confusing style, in part because it had been translated from ancient languages by numerous authors.  Would you actively use such a book, sifting through for the good parts, when you could get similar information elsewhere without the bad stuff thrown in? [/quote]

Dude, puhleassee! You trying to prove me stupid is not going to make me NOT believe in God -- it's just not. I'm not trying to make you look stupid for not believing -- so just stop wasting your breath.

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I'm not the immediate PP, but I am the PP who said God gave us free will and intelligence for a reason. I agree with PP - mocking and insulting us gets you nowhere.

I find the New Testament, with its emphasis on loving your enemy and separating church and state ("render unto Caesar") to be completely consistent with what I believe a rational God would want in this century of atomic bombs, diverse societies, and economic/class warfare. I thank God for not creating robots to bow down before him. Instead, he had the wisdom, and the love for us, to create us with free wills to seek and find his message for ourselves.[/quote]

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