Since I came to this forum it has dawned on me that those that `believe ` and are devoted to Christianity only seem to want to discuss the "qualities " of god and or Jesus; how "god loves us" and cares for us and how "Jesus died for us". How Jesus literally "healed the sick and the blind". How he was "taken up to heaven" literally. And of course, discuss the lovely beautiful place called paradise we are said to go to when we are dead- if we have been good .
Christians never seem to be able to or really want to discuss the actual content of biblical scriptures themselves. These scriptures that are supposed to be the inspired words of their god Jesus are full of unexplainable, ambiguous, contradictory half stories and verses that Christians just don't seem to want to face and fail to explain when they try.
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[A] Matthew 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword".
[B] Luke 22:36 "He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one [a sword]".
[C] Matthew 26:52 "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword".
So, the intention is clear at [A] and [B] seems to support the intentions of [A] that is until we get to [C] which contradicts both [A] & [B]. Not to mention that Christians call their God Jesus "the Prince of Peace", while Exodus tells us that their God Jesus is a man of war and a Jealous god. while Job 5:2 informs us that; "Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.
A Christian will try to explain this away by informing you, that it is you that is at fault and not the scripture, with various reasons including that "you cannot read" or worse.
Christians want the educated 21st century person just to accept everything that is said about god and Jesus without question as was the case hundreds of thousands of years BC & early AD. Christians appear to have ignored that fact that the human race has educated itself since the days of Noah & Moses and all those other biblical patriarchs and that superstition hardly plays no part in 21st century man's thinking.
Aaron's staff turned into a serpent, it was a miracle performed by god. The Egyptian priests staffs were also turned into serpents, but by black magic.
Christians, ALWAYS take it as a direct insult to themselves and their faith when approached with these anomalous biblical contradictory half stories. And to point out the hundreds of biblical contradictions to Christians it is taken that the questioner as being audacious and insulting. Do they not realise that by taking this attitude and stance against those that question these unreliable scriptures that they themselves are contradicting the instructions their own scriptures!?
I take it as a direct insult when I am told that I "cannot read". That "I am taking thing out of context". That "I will never be able to understand - unless I believe". any many of the hundreds of insults and excuses they will throw at anyone simply that simply question what is there to be questioned. Christians simply forget that the questioner has absolutely nothing to defend when discussing and disputing claims made in the biblical scriptures.
Christians need to understand that today, in the 21st century, one doesn't have to have faith and believe in their god Jesus, before they can read the bible for themselves and on their own.