Very few Christians believe that 'the entire book is factual and literal truth'.
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I totally understand why so many people would doubt when Christians don't even believe the truth of the Bible.
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Reason number one would be hardly any Christians have read it. I do enjoy pointing out some of the more unknown passages and watching the reactions.
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This post of yours should read: Reason number one would be hardly any Christians have read it. I do enjoy making (sh)it up as I go along, and the bigger the generalization the better it plays to the anti-religious target audience of this board in whom I wish to score cred points with.
How could you possibly know as to whether "hardly any Christians have read it" [Bible]? You can't rightfully make such a claim, for it's nothing more than an assumption.
What I've noticed in your postings on religious subjects on this board is that assumptions and generalizations is what you dish up. It makes for nothing more than empty-headed trolling of a bigoted nature. Wise up!
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I think he was talking about intelligent christians not young earth creationists who think the flintstones is a documentary.
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Partridge seems reasonable to me. I don't mind if people think I'm a crackpot for believing the Bible is true. I do what Partridge does all the time, I did it today. If you ask a Christian what the role of a Pastor is as outlined in the Bible you will be welcomed with some funny answers.
'Pastor' isn't a Catholic rank, is it? Sounds a bit more like Anglican/Presbyterian/Baptist/Pentecostal.
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Its a good point, if I infer you right. Pastor means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. The Greek use this specific word "poimen" once only. I'm no expert mind you, but its in Ephesians 4:12. I could be wrong. Ephesians 4:12 is pretty counter modern western church mentality which can often be the pastor serves at others whims. I should get around here more often, I mix in Christian circles a lot and don't mind being questioned every now and again. I remember when I first "became" a Christian, for want of a better expression, and my mates would bail me up for hours at the pub firing away questions at me. Cant a man just enjoy a beer haha!
Being born into an Irish Catholic family, like I was, you knew a bit about your own crowd and absolutely ZERO about any of the others. Only knew about Anglicans and their 'vicars' from watching shows from the U.K on the telly.
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I learnt all I needed to know from "The Vicar of Dibley".
If The Vicar of Dibley was truth in what goes on I'd probably join up! Things would get even more low-brow though, I fear...
If he posted some obscure part of the Bible and five Christians scratched their heads at it, Partridge would have proved some kind of point. Same as if he stood on the Bourke Street Mall with a sandwich board with an obscure text from the Bible written there and was approached by Christians not understanding what it meant.
Of course this means a practical test of going out there to prove a point. Online and/or in the real world. I'd bet he'd stump quite a few church-going folk too.
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No, he wouldn't have made his point. His claim was so broad that five hardly constitutes "hardly any Christians". It was a stupid generalization of his and one he has no hope of backing up.
"Obscure text" has nothing to do with "hardly any Christians have read it [bible]". Having a different or even no understanding of a particular verse isn't evidence of "hardly any Christians have read it [bible]". Your attempt at justifying such a stupid generalization of Partridge's is nonsensical.
One couldn't possibly prove a point from such a small sample size, for there are more than a billion so-called Christians on the planet.
But they do this all the time on television! I mean, how can television lie, tesseract?
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What I've noticed on yours is you can't bear that someone ridicules religion.
And you don't get to tell me what to do. So bad luck, because unfortunately, someone else........thinks differently to you. You better go and gather the wood.
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Not true, for I've ridiculed religion at times myself. I have a particular belief, but that doesn't mean I'm a fan of religion, as a whole, the way it goes about it.
Where did I tell you what to do? Your subsequent comment comes from a false premise.
"You better go and gather the wood"? WTF!
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