But the Bible clearly states that all who repent will enter Heaven and that Jesus loves all and accepts all, so long as they repent and accept him. Common sense and your judgment does not matter to God.
I was taught that God cared about me and how I felt. Didn't God care about Abraham's judgement about the innocents when he was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
What teachings, exactly?
So basically lets say this is happening with a mother and her young daughter. The daughter is like three. Lets say the daughter one day decides to do a minor crime, like steal a candy bar. Would you call it torture if the mother had abandoned the kid? It was, after all, the kid's own choice that drove the mother away, who cares if she starves?
And be sides that, this is what torture means. The burning you describe fits numbers 4 and 5 of the noun, and arguably some of the others.
I don't see how you could compare a little girl stealing candy to a spiritual eventuality that lands on a much greater scale. And in any sense, if I were to commit a minor crime like the girl, God isn't going to drop me off a cliff and abandon me. He never abandons anyone, for any reason. While it is the girls fault that she drove her own mother away, the girl did not ask for forgiveness. In the end, however, the mother would still love her child. It's just like the prodigal son.
I did read the Bible. And I seem to remember half of it being Jewish and having no Jesus whatsoever.
The later books of the Hebrew Bible forshadow Jesus coming to Earth. It is also wise to acknowledge these two facts: Christianity is a continuation of Judaism, so it is only logical that they would use the same book, and also, Jews believe in the Messiah, they just don't think that Jesus was him.
Are facts a hard concept for you to understand?
Alright, lets go back to the robber scene. Sure, you may interpret his motives differently, but the story will still be the same. If you where to ask us both if he shot the cashier, we would both give the same answer. The bible doesn't give the same answer, one will say that he just stone the money and ran, while the other says that he maliciously slaughtered all of the workers and stole the money. It isn't "Oh. Look how he interpreted it!" kind of thing.
Now lets take this back to court. If, in a court, two witnesses give you different accounts, can you believe all accounts?
While some details may differ, it is the same basic story. If two different people say the same general story, are they both lying because of minor inconsistencies? Each disciple also shares different experiences with God. If one book has a story that another book doesn't, that doesn't mean that the story is false, it's just another experience and a lesson.
Wait..How you feel about facts?
Back to the court. If witnesses said "I feel like it was him. I have a strong, inner emotion that says he killed the cashier", are you going to believe him? This is history, witnesses of an event, it isn't a feeling that you get. Did the events happen as they say they did in the Bible or not?
We are talking about lingual representations of passionate feelings, yo. While I can see how you've tied this to the court case, I believe that you might be getting skewed away from what I was trying to stay. Sure, while there may be a factual and definitive definition for a word, my opinion on the definition may be different based on my experiences. A heartbroken man might describe love as "a beautiful creature, until it snatches your hand off" whereas the literal definition could not and would not include such feelings.
Your religion does not deserve my expect, and in fact deserves nothing but to be abolished.
I meant towards me. If you don't have respect, fine then, that's why we are debating, isn't it? But you don't show any respect for me, when I see you as an equal human. If this is a debate, let's try to stay out of the namecalling and mockery that accompanies small children.
And thus an upwards of a thousand lies where born. Wait, I thought you said he inspired them and gave them feelings? Did he inspire them, or did he allow them to live among Jesus?
Both, young sir. God allowed them to live with Jesus so that they could learn the knowledge he possessed. One of the teachings of Jesus was selflessness, and so taking from that, they decided to create a book about Jesus' teachings.
What?
Acts 1:18
Now this man [Judas] purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
How in the hell does someone who hangs himself fall "headlong"? Did he hang himself by his toes? "Burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out", got tore open and had all his guts fall out. What suicides have you been observing when the guts break open and fall out? Where aliens involved?
It is common knowledge that when a person dies, their bowels are emptied. Bowels, not guts, is feces. Notice it says "gushing" and not "imploding". If you hang yourself, yes, you are hanging by your head. But there is a thing called wind that, if I am correct, still exists today. Besides that, there are a thousand possibilities on how Judas could have fell.
And the NIV that the guy originally posted shows him "Throwing away" the money, not spending it. I don't speak Hebrew, but it sure sounds like it means something like "Gave the money to the temple without getting land in return", not anything else.
I'm pretty sure that's english, not hebrew
, but wasn't Judas throwing away the money by spending it on his suicide site? How did this help anybody? He could have donated the money to a charity fund or bought food for the needy!
Have you actually read any of the passages?
Yes, yes I have.
