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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: The bible is a work of fiction - discuss |
Bible Note: Doesn't make you a bad person. It just makes you like the rest of us. On your way to Hell unless there's some way you can pay your debt to God. But how do you pay an infinite debt? How do you clean yourself with your filthy rags? It's like the man who breaks his neighbor's property and spends all day fixing it. He works hard, very hard. But at the end of the day he can't fix it. So because he worked hard trying to fix the thing he broke, he knocks on his neighbor's door and demands to be let in and fed supper because he worked hard. You say it angers you that belief should stop people from being together. Get over it. When God gets to your heart there is nothing more important. You say "I have a genuine interest in knowing why people beleive. Admittidly this is for slightly selfish reasons" Then you never will. You have to lose your pride first. Do you understand that Timothy McVeigh may get to heaven and you will not? If he bent his knee in utter broken humility before God, he will. Your pride prevents you. You ask why we believe. I don't believe. I know. Your girlfriend doesn't believe either. She knows. You can too. Quit washing yourself with oily rags and muddy hands. |