[Boofo]

Think again!

Stating an opinion is different than insulting. Calling someone's opinions or beliefs retarded because they differ from your own, that's insulting. You need to think again.

Just making sure you understand... he didn't call you retarded - he called the statement retarded... which is only an opinion.

Read the above statement.

Usually people who say 'The Bible is full of contradictions' don't even make an effort to read the Bible at all. Do a little reading and you'll see in the Old Testament times Moses instructed the people with "An Eye for an Eye" to prevent retribution and revenge. During those times people were killing other people in revenge for other acts (of lesser value) to them.

Okay, since my wife's father is an ordained Minister in the Methodist church, I'll give you some examples I got from her, that she learned from him and from reading the Bible while growing up. If you take the King James version of the Bible and compare it to the Living Bible, there are instances over and over again where words are changed and the meaning is completely different, depending on the version. There is evidence that entire chapters and even books have been omitted from the original because they were not found until after the first publication of the Bible was printed. Another example of contradictions is slavery. In biblical times people were encourage to keep slaves, but in today's society you would be arrested for doing so.

Moses then said, ?If you must have revenge, let it be no more than what was done to you.? "Eye for an Eye" wasn't for personal revenge, but through the courts in those days.

If this was through the courts in those days, then why is anyone against the death penalty as a punishment for murder? Isn't that an eye for an eye? You took someones life so the court will take yours?

What has this got to do with anything? [/B]

One of the commandments is "You shall honor the Sabbath day and keep it holy." Working, cooking, cleaning etc. are forbidden on the Sabbath because it is a day of rest. In modern times orthodox christians do not even answer their phones or let their children watch television or play computer games on Sunday and I fail to see that posting messages on the internet is any different from that.

One final note, prove to me, if you can, that the Bible wasn't written by 12 drunks sitting around the table. You cannot prove that anymore than you can that it was written by more than forty people over many years time. People write novels in todays times that are longer than the Bible was, some in as few as 6 months, all by themselves. So it's not impossible for even one person to have written the Bible if you really want to get down to being able to prove anything. The Bible is basically a belief, if you choose to believe, then the Bible is for you, but as you get older, and you've been around a bit and you've seen people die in war, and you've caused some of those deaths yourself, you start to question God in all his infinite wisdom. If he's all so powerful, why does he allow it to happen to some people and not to others? Why, when we came back from Vietnam, was it so easy for people of the church to forgive us for what we had to do over there? If I had done the same thing here, I doubt very seriously I would have been forgiven by anybody. You explain that one.