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I seek sin like a moth towards flame, save me God.
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Tradition supports that Scripture is Trustworthy.Wiffey said:Fortunately, I do not believe that God is a despot. If I thought so, I wouldn't worship him. If I thought that all of Christianity was bunk, I'd be gone. To me, it is the rigid, dogmatic view of God that is illogical. Humans try to understand what is beyond their comprehension...and end up ascribing human qualities to God, who far surpasses us.
Kind of like if a squirrel monkey tried to write a book that explained humans. A squirrel monkey will never fully be able to grasp the human experience & perspective, even if a human patiently explains it in detail. So what you would get is a tome detailing the prevailing squirrel monkey wisdom regarding humans. Is this the fault of the human? No. Just that the book will have built in limitations.
Luckily, I don't just experience God from scripture...I experience God each day. Where scripture, tradition and reason all fit together and make sense, I have no issue. Where scripture seems to contradict itself, I turn to reason and what I KNOW to be true...that God is good and merciful and loving. If the scripture shows God in that light, great. If it shows an anthropomorphized version of God, a deity basically behaving like a crack addled dictator...then I think "Wow, that is sooo off base".
Also, you circumvented my question. Why do you trust the portions of Scripture that describe God as Merciful and ignore the ones that show His Wrath and Justice? Why do you trust Paul when he says Christ is divine, but doubt him when he says Homosexuality is sinful?
Why not Vice Versa? On what do you base your faith. You have told me what you believe, but not why.
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