On the contrary, it goes to the heart of everything you post about your religion.
What religion would that be?
What your belief comes down to, every time, is a reliance on revelatory knowledge you think you possess about God, about what God wants, about what God demands of human beings, and so on.
You're talking about your own idea, back when you thought you were a theist.
Nothing you say relates to theism.
Whenever you are asked to explain how you gain your supposedly certain and infallible knowledge about God, you duck and you weave and you claim the question is irrelevant.
God is infallible, not me.
You'd think you would understand this from back in the day when you were a theist.
Apparently you don't. Probably because you were never a theist.
The simple fact is: these knowledge claims you make are baseless.
Anything that is theistic in content, is baseless to a person who has subconsciously confirmed to themselves ''There is no God''.
They are based on wishful thinking and imaginings of your own, at least as far as can be ascertained from anything you have ever posted to this forum.
Obviously you are bound to think that, and that is what you think theism is, even when falsely believed you were one.
The only interesting tidbit that this thread has added to our overall understanding of your belief system is that you're afraid of divine judgment, and afraid of death. It seems that fear is the main thing that motivates you to act in accordance with what you believe is "divine law".
This is simply you being angry.
I feel sorry for you.
Sorry, you don't get to speak for me.
When it comes to pretending to be a theist, then tarring all theists with your brush, I very much do.
No. I've stopped jumping through your arbitrary hoops. Believe what you like. It will just fit the established pattern.
More lies.
You've never talked about God, or your relationship with, and to God, because you never had one.
An atheist gives up the human right to such relations, until they come to their senses.
Is that what you believed when you thought you were a theist.
Nice try at pretending to be too dumb to understand the question.
What is dumb about my response?
Maybe take a bit of time responding, rather than hitting "reply" and typing away before you've even read through the post you're replying to.
You mean I should pretend you make a good point, by giving it loads of waffle.
Pretending is your gig, not mine.
Sure. Try Leviticus 20:13, for instance. Did you skip over that the first time I posted it?
That says nothing about killing gays.
Care to try again.
It doesn't tell me, you, or any ordinary person to kill. It clearly instructs us not to kill.
Can you find anything that instructs man to go out and kill?
God himself is also a role model in the bible for when it is okay to kill:
Where does say, or even imply, that God is a role model.
Was this part of your personalised doctrine when you pretended to be a theist?
You're exempt from these divine laws because you're not spiritually advanced. Is that what you're telling me?
Are babies exempt from the rules of the house?
Do you believe that Jesus' death attoned for the sins of men? If so, why do we still die? Or don't you believe in Jesus?
I don't even know what that means.
I can't get a direct answer from any Christian.
But I will keep trying.
Then why make me jump through hoops by pretending ignorance?
Huh???
You were the one who brought Buddhism into the conversation.
Interesting that you say "dogs". You haven't even bothered to take a proper look at the evidence, have you? What are you afraid of?
Of course I have looked into it.
What you call evidence, isn't evidence.
Nobody knows that Fido turned into a great big whale.
That's a fact.
The theory of evolution is a scientific theory. As such, magic doesn't come into it.
I disagree.
Anyway, thanks for confirming my original statement, that evidence is irrelevant for you.
What is absolutely clear is that it is irrelevant for you.
jan.
