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Originally Posted by awareness
And you've driven your point home over and over again. And you know what? I don't think you've changed any mind one iota.
And as far as having the luxury of taking an honest thoughtful look goes ... who does that?
Christians around here don't ; most of 'em, anyway. A few years back I attended a Church of Christ for a yr and a half. They were the no musical instruments, no creed but Christ, no book but the Bible, kind of Church of Christ. The pastor and I became close friends.
I can't tell you how man times he called me Sunday afternoon, telling me I stirred up trouble by bringing something surprising up that's in the Bible.
I had lunch with the lead Elder, a prominent lawyer in town, and he told me I was speaking over their heads. When I told him I was only talking Bible stuff, he said, they don't read their Bible. That they get their Bible from the preacher.
The preacher accused me of trying to feed meat to milk drinkers. They were adults with grown children ... and still drinking milk.
But still, they accepted 3 things that they accepted blindly without question : 1) The Bible is the Word of God. 2) The Trinity, and 3) Jesus is God.
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I've been through the same thing you speak of a few times. I've noticed in my life I run across people who seem down right heathen, for lack of better term, who when I spent time camping or hiking with are actually quite thoughtful and considerate of God. Then I also spend time with Christians who have large bibles, who actually seem to think less of God in a real way than the heathen. They know terms that they are taught, and that is good enough- God is a packaged three people entity, of which Jesus is the chief. If I start to discuss the whole concept-I soon realize it's not a topic they want to consider.