Zone1 The Great Difficulty Of Being Religious.....

[ding]

What the hell is God?

If you first define it. I will answer

God is every extant attribute of reality. It's because you have no realistic perception of God that everything you believe is skewed to fairytales. A decidedly anti-intellectual position.

 

[otto105]

Actually the great difficulty in being religious is dying to self. It's extremely powerful but hard to do. I suspect the only way that will ever happen for you is to hit rock bottom.

Does your religion require you to bottom out so it can control you.

 

[Donald H]

If I wasn't so used to all the times you have butchered what I have said, it would be funnier.

You who has been the most honest of all the Christians, with your liberal and progressive new translations of the bibles being intended to be allegorical messages as opposed to hardnosed attitudes of those who refuse to throw out the chaff!

Without your wise input the religion discussions would fall silent even before they're shutdown by the hall monitors.

 

[ding]

Only literal truths in the bible for the truly faithful who haven't been backsliders who have already accepted allegorical truths. See Genesis. See the big fish story.

You are boring AF.

 

[ding]

Excellent! You're ready to separate the literal truths in the bibles, from the stories that you have declared to be alleorical and bogus!

Can we start with one that you have found difficult in the past? Jonah and the big fish?

I'm not interested in watching you jerk off, bro. I'm happy enough knowing that failed behaviors naturally lead to failure.

 

[Donald H]

There are all sorts of literary devices in the Bible. No one is denying that.

That's an offer of something we can agree upon.! Can you expand on that with an example of a literary device named, and a bible story that uses the particular device to convey the god's message?

As the thread title tells us: There will be great difficulty. If you can't do the above, nobody can!

Nobody has the will to even try!

 

[Woodznutz]

That's an offer of something we can agree upon.! Can you expand on that with an example of a literary device named, and a bible story that uses the particular device to convey the god's message?

As the thread title tells us: There will be great difficulty. If you can't do the above, nobody can!

Nobody has the will to even try!

Parables, various metaphorical visions (see Daniel, Revelation).

 

[ding]

I respect people of faith...

Your posts say otherwise. I'm praying that you reach rock bottom soon, so you can begin the journey of becoming a decent human being.

 

[Donald H]

I'm not interested in watching you jerk off, bro. I'm happy enough knowing that failed behaviors naturally lead to failure.

Ding please! We have already reached agreement on the fundamental question! Follow along with your finger while Woodnuts and I attempt to reach agreement on same.

 

[ding]

Sayeth me too!

No shit.

 

[ding]

Ding please! We have already reached agreement on the fundamental question! Follow along with your finger while Woodnuts and I attempt to reach agreement on same.

I am amazed by your reboot time in jerking yourself off.

 

[ding]

I think you've already rethought your belief positions and now you're trying to pretend you've always been a literal believer.

I respectfully sayeth unto you that I can't allow you to share Woodnuts' literal belief in the bibles. You! You who hath introduced allegorical beliefs unto this board?

I really don't care what a fraud/subversive thinks or believes. What you intend for evil, God is using for good. That's the only value you offer at this time.

 

[ding]

Does your religion require you to bottom out so it can control you.

So many things wrong with that statement, but it does offer insight into your beliefs.

 

[Donald H]

Parables.

Explicitly?

It doesn't have to be today!

And it doesn't have to be one that I consider to be a whopper, such as the worldwide flood in which the earth is translated to mean the 'dirt' in Hebrew.

 

[ding]

You who has been the most honest of all the Christians, with your liberal and progressive new translations of the bibles being intended to be allegorical messages as opposed to hardnosed attitudes of those who refuse to throw out the chaff!

Without your wise input the religion discussions would fall silent even before they're shutdown by the hall monitors.

What I believe isn't new, dummy.

 

[ding]

Ding please! We have already reached agreement on the fundamental question! Follow along with your finger while Woodnuts and I attempt to reach agreement on same.

Your schtick is just as boring as you are.

 

[ding]

Happiness is fleeting, contentment is the operative term for Christians.

Being thankful, being reflective, being charitable all lead to being happy. It literally turns on all the learning centers of the brain.

 

[Donald H]

What I believe isn't new, dummy.

I can accept that. New being relative to 'how old and how new'?

Can you help woodnuts with some particular parable being the allegorical purpose of some particular bible story?

Wasn't it you who suggested that 'the earth' was intended to mean 'the dirt'? The soil?

 

[ding]

I can accept that. New being relative to 'how old and how new'?

Can you help woodnuts with some particular parable being the allegorical purpose of some particular bible story?

Wasn't it you who suggested that 'the earth' was intended to mean 'the dirt'? The soil?

No, you have never accepted anything I have written. You've butchered it for your own amusement. Thus revealing your true colors.

 

[Woodznutz]

Explicitly?

It doesn't have to be today!

And it doesn't have to be one that I consider to be a whopper, such as the worldwide flood in which the earth is translated to mean the 'dirt' in Hebrew.

The flood is written as an actual event, not a metaphor.

This should help.

What kinds of literary techniques are used in the Bible?

Examples of literary techniques in the Bible: Chiasm, Acrostic, Alliteration, Allusion, Anthropomorphism, Apostrophe, Assonance, etc.

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