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greatamerican128 · #15 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 08:07 PM

If you read the full discussion, you would know I'm not attempting to demonize Christianity. I was pointing out that Christianity and Judaism have managed to find ways to ignore the violent verses in their holy book.

That's fair, I suppose

That was my point. It doesn't match modern notions, so we find a way to discard it.

Because everything modern is correct?

Gotta disagree here. God is what he is, if he exists: But I can choose whether I want to worship him. I'm not going to worship a God that demands 20 human sacrifices a day, regardless of how "unknowable" he is.

First of all, I never said it is impossible to have a relationship with God. I simply stated that we cannot judge His actions to be wrong. Now you can attempt to, however it is impossible for a person or population of any size to accurately judge God to be "wrong". This is because we can't see the full reason for His actions and how they fit in with the larger picture. We, as inhabitants of this world, can only judge events and actions on a worldly scale. God is on a scale which is not only beyond us physically but also mentally and in other ways we cannot imagine. To put it simply, God is beyond this world in all ways(although He does intervene from time to time), so for us to accuse of him of being "wrong" would be ridiculous.

So that makes it okay then?

Read my above statement

There are plenty of injunctions to go out and spread the word. The exact methodology has always been rather broadly interpreted.

However, the Bible doesn't specifically tell believers to force the word on other people. It does tell believers not to judge non-believers though, which would indicate that the Bible is against the use of force in saving others.

According to Muslims, they are the same. Muslims just claim to have the most recent revelation.

Firstly, God sent his son to die on the cross for humanity, according to the Qu'ran Jesus was a simple prophet and not the savior of mankind. This is a clear difference between the God of Christianity and Allah. Second, God in the Bible is the trinity. This differs from the Qu'ran which states that Allah is a single entity.