There‘s WAY too many for me to list, but I‘m sure others will provide them.You worship the image of Jesus on the cross wearing nothing but a loin cloth. Yet you whine about shirtlessness in my avatar.You criticize the Muslims for having certain religious beliefs, yet your religion has beliefs that are equally unacceptable.You claim that people choose hell, but when I hold a gun to someone‘s head with a threat, they are not choosing my bullet.You support freedom of religion when it comes to prayer in school, yet you deny the rights of those who wish to practice non-Christian religions.You claim that murderers should be punished, yet deny the punishment for women who have abortions, something you claim to be murder.You claim homosexuality is an abomination because of a verse in Leviticus, yet you ignore the other abominations from Leviticus: wearing polyester-cotton blend clothing, eating shrimp, etc.
It is thermal expansion, you don't need to cut the wall out buy some spray foam at Lowe's and make a few holes around the sound and spray it in
The statements in you list are just way too general to bother arguing with you about because no matter what I day you'd just find something to contradict it so I'll take the only thing I can give you a clear an precise answer about. In Mark 15:11 Jesus says: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. By this statement Jesus repealed the dietary restrictions for Christians and declared all animals to be clean. You say you've read the Bible several times but have you actually stopped and thought about it as you were reading (with an open mind)? Did you bother to notice that the leadership in Jesus' day was too bent on following the letter of the law and paid no attention to the spirit of the law? Should we throw out the US constitution because 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st? No such repealing statement exists for the behaviors associated with homosexuality.
To answer your questions. 1. God did not just swoop down and kill the first born sons in Egypt. Try reading the bible for a change. He gave many warnings, and Moses went through many trials in the pursuit of freeing the Jews in Egypt. When the warning went out about the first born sons, the Egyptians were told how to stop it. Everyone had to put the blood of the lamb on their doors. The Egyptians refused. Sometimes being harsh is the only way to make a point. God had tried every other way to convince the Pharoah. 2. Adam did not know about sin. He knew that eating the fruit (not classified as an apple until around the middle ages) was wrong. He did not have knowledge of sin. He and Eve ate the fruit of knowledge and gained the insight to what sin was. It's like telling a kid to not touch a hot stove. He'll know he's not supposed to because you tell him time and time again not to, but that won't stop him from trying until he manages to burn himself. (and no, I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it does illustrate my point) Now that it's done, the kid really knows to not touch the stove. 3. As for believing in Chrisitanity and the different denominations, that's because of human problems. If Joe doesn't like something and goes off with a group of friends and sets up his own church, does that make Joe right? The overall message of Christianity is agreed on by all denominations, human interpretation is what sets them apart. And before you rag on how Christians can't agree on anything, there are diffent denominations in the Jewish religion, the Islam religion, the Buddhist religion, the Hindu religion, and the Pagan religion. So, are they all a double standard because of that? A pagan friend once said to me, You ask any three pagans a question about their religion, and you'll get ten different answers. His point was that (as is with any religion) human interpretation on the details sets it apart. The underlying message is always the same. And that is of love.
you might just need to install some clamps to help with the sound and also 10years do u think ur builder will still be in business?
Gee, it sounds like you are not a happy camper. Normally I tell people to accept that each of the Three Mainstream religions are going to do whatever they want because they are the Trinity! Basically these religion will continue to do what they want and practice a double standard until enough people say, hey wait a minute! Their members are religious soldiers who fight for their souls daily and they have been brainwashed that this is important. You are fighting against people who don't want to learn truth unless it is their religion's truth. You are asking these people to take a leap of faith that you are right and their religion (which they have known longer) wrong. And if they make the wrong choice, they are condemning themselves to hell! I'm a Pagan Witch who just happens to be gay and I love shrimp. I was raised Pagan and I learned my Witchcraft from my family and believe me when I tell you we are nothing like any of the modern stereotypes and we are also not the Witches of the Bible. We are mostly rural people who see that the earth is a precious resource that must be managed by people who care if the planet is inhabitable for the next generations. Our spells and prayers are highly ritualized positive reinforcements of what we want and need and we won't harm anyone unless they present harm to us. We have won a few battles with the Mainstream religions, but these are minor. We just got finished fighting the VA to adopt the Pentacle as the symbol of faith for Pagan and Wiccan soldiers who loose their lives in defense of their Country. This has been a nine years battle that when we finally took the VA to court, they settled without a fight since they were legally wrong and they didn't want the bad publicity. So if you haven't heard anything about this you can thank the Trinity! Good luck. My website has more info about the VA nonsense!
