Not-That-Bright said:
er... or they're all wrong and therefore all equally (in)valid.
Yes, hence me saying previously:
BradCube said:
(Unless you want to say they are both invalid-thereby giving both the same level of validity)
I want to point out again, that I am not arguing to whether there actually is any authority in religious texts but that if there is how it can be said that they are all as valid when they say contradictory things.
Like you and I have both pointed out, the only way this works is if they are all invalid thereby having the same level in validity - none.
littlewing69 said:
Valid point.
I would ask you the same question, though. How come you chose Christianity over the myriad other competing ideologies? Surely you are just picking what you like? And how do you pick what sort of Christian God you want? Vengeful OT YHWH, or all-loving, mellowed out NT Father?
I think the key differential between christianity and other religions (which is what your essentially asking me right?) is the fact that christianity states that there in no way we can "earn" our way to heaven or God since we are all sinful. This makes the most logical sense to me as it seems thoughtless in thinking that I could ever through my own good deads exist on the same level as a perfect god. If I could, I would be god-like also.
There are many things christianity states that I do not like - eg the whole sex before marriage discussion we are having here. If I was simply crafting my own religion for what I like, there are many things which I would scrap. Since I cannot personally find, logical evidence to suggest I have a wrong interpretation, I choose instead to do what I do not naturally want to.
It would seem pointless to me to discount the Old Testament or the New Testament, doing so would invalidate my whole argument. Especially since both sections refer to each other as truth. It is with that, that you have my answer to which God of the bible I believe. I believe they are one and the same. To discount the areas of God shown in the old testament is just as logical as discounting the one in the new - ie not logical at all.