Divine Wind
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God didn't set up the Abrahamic religions; mankind did so. Believers think there is an all powerful entity which is the force behind the creation of the universe, but what that entity expects from us is pure guesswork, hence not only why there are so many different religions in the world, be so many interpretations of the Bible.Well this is a real problem. I'm not a specialist in religions but maybe somebody could suppose an all-knowing divinity wants his own religion to change through the years (for unknown reasons)If they need to "evolve" then they are NOT from an all-knowing god, and that also would show that the Bible is wrong because a number of Biblical passages say that god does not CHANGE.Religions can "evolve" during the years. You can see Christians used violence in the past but now they don't do any violent act.Question: If your children turn out to eventually be gay, would you kill them as the Bible/Islamic texts imply, or are the Bible/Islamic texts wrong? Which is it?
“If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.” (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
If you reply "I don't follow the OT", that's great - then admit that it's wrong (or else you'd follow it).
I believe in loving gays, so of course I think we can move beyond the morality in the Bible/Islamic texts since they got it wrong.
Your opinion?
So you don't have to choose between killing your gay children or declaring Bible or Koran wrong.
Plus religious texts must be decoded because parts of those books are allegorical
The Facts and Stats on 33000 Denominations: World Christian Encyclopedia (2001, 2nd edition)
- there are 33,000+ total of these "Christian denominations" in 238 total countries
- Independents (about 22000)
- Protestants (about 9000)
- "Marginals" (about 1600)
- Orthodox (781)
- Roman Catholics (242)
- Anglicans (168)