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  1. the.reverent.atheist

    If atheists get accused of taking verses out of context, how do we know fundamentalists making those accusations aren’t doing the same as well?

    Yes, the example you cited does indeed imply that the God of the Bible is the one true God of the universe. But I wasn't talking about that passage, or about any of the several other passages in the Old and New Testaments that say much the same thing. I was only talking about the first paragraph...
  2. the.reverent.atheist

    If atheists get accused of taking verses out of context, how do we know fundamentalists making those accusations aren’t doing the same as well?

    So how do we know who has been led by the Holy Spirit and who has not? If you ask anyone who claims to be a Christian whether he or she has been led by the Holy Spirit when reading the Bible, the answer will inevitably be "Well, yeah-- of course!" Christians believe that Jesus is the person...
  3. the.reverent.atheist

    If atheists get accused of taking verses out of context, how do we know fundamentalists making those accusations aren’t doing the same as well?

    The text says nothing about a glass flask, or an alembic, or alchemy. It does talk about the creation of sea creatures, land animals, plants, and the other lights of the night sky, which I take to include stars and planets. None of these creative acts seem to be of any interest to you-- and yet...
  4. the.reverent.atheist

    If atheists get accused of taking verses out of context, how do we know fundamentalists making those accusations aren’t doing the same as well?

    The second story of the creation begins as follows: In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up-- for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till...
  5. the.reverent.atheist

    If atheists get accused of taking verses out of context, how do we know fundamentalists making those accusations aren’t doing the same as well?

    @Lapidem : Was your your response supposed to be related to my posting of yesterday? I wasn't talking about the separation of waters, as in Genesis 1:6 - 8. I was talking about the first paragraph of the Bible, Genesis 1:1 - 2. The first paragraph clearly implies that the God of the Bible is not...
  6. the.reverent.atheist

    If atheists get accused of taking verses out of context, how do we know fundamentalists making those accusations aren’t doing the same as well?

    It's actually much worse than that. Christians claim that their beliefs are based on what the Bible actually says. The Catholic Catechism says "A catechism should faithfully and systematically present the teaching of Sacred Scripture..." But the fact is that Christians don't actually believe...
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