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You know, if you knew me personally, this would probably come as a surprise...but that actually makes alot of sense to me, and I feel its more or less right on. Ha, thanks.

I suppose this might not be great timing for the forum, as I have gotten the impression some Mods aren't so appreciative of all the Sex talk...understandable I suppose, but nonetheless, I've got a little question that needs some answering. I'll keep it as PG-ish as can be. I feel like I could...

Yes, but the key word there is "directed." Not only is the initial dislike/distrust innately present, it is innate that it will be directed, in some form or another, to some group or another.

Well....not quite. If Racism has to be taught, then it couldn't ever had existed. You can only go back so many teachers, until you get to the guy who made it up. Not that I'm saying it was conjured by one fellow, but moreso that it is an innate quality in every human. Not even racism at...

I think your making the mistake of following the sentiment that God is in some way subject to our own judgements of right or wrong. For starters, he made the mind you're using to judge him, he made the oxygen that feeds that mind you're using, he made the fingers that you would use to type here...

Well if you read a 1 Samuel through, it talks of how the lord was furious at Saul for not carrying out his instructions--namely, killing all the Amalakites. But even if you look at other times when the Lord clearly told the Israelites to massacre a bunch of people, you can't make the mistake of...

Romans 3:5-8 "5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory...

I don't think the Bible really preaches, "Don't steal...unless its from some big meanies." I'm not sure how bad it is there, but I can imagine it must suck if its the way your explaining, and so I certainly feel for you. However, again, that still doesn't quite make it right. I had a music...

99Percent, he's clearly not promoting the band, he said he was a Christian and was asking relevant opinions on the subject of censorship. Though Mesias, calling someones post retarded isn't entirely helpful either; it just gives the person on the other side a reason to continue fighting you...

Certainly they were, but trying to take what they thought was a higher road wasn't what was wrong in of itself. They were condemned because they taught that righteousness was only gained by those physical outwards acts, and never factored in faith at all. Thus we deem Pharisees "legalistic"...

I think your kidding yourself if you think that every reality known to God is given to us via the bible. The bible doesn't say anything about aliens, but it also doesn't say anything like, "By the way, there are no other species living on planets other then earth." HAL 12:23 I personally don't...

Its not too far fetched to say our sex drive is from God, but only in the sense that he hard-wired into our biological bodies. I don't think we reach a point where God says, "Good job, you've reached level 'marriage'...heres a sex drive.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh...

I didn't so much question my ability as opposed to saying I don't spend much mental process doing it, because it really only leads to being extremely judgmental. Your starting to compare apples to oranges. What I have been saying is just the same as pretending there is a big box of red...

..Though being overly verbally aggressive doesn't always help either....

Hate to verbally...or I suppose literately...assassinate you on this one, but I've been seeing alot of this sort of thing around the web, and its beginning to frustrate me. Certainly all those things are good, but none of that says masturbation is a sin--its only helps us in the fact that, if...

For this conscious topic, I would go over my previous post to Cubinity. I'm right there with you. Its bogus that some teach that drinking is wrong...though I would encourage a restraint in demonizing the people that do--not saying that your're doing that--but if one looks at the plethora of...

Thats quite a jump from me restraining from judging who I think is a Christian, to saying that I'm just conceptualizing some undefined group of people. I defined the people of whom I was talking fairly well, and if we agree on the fundamentals of Christianity, then you really wouldn't be able...

Ha well for once we really don't agree...I think we're getting somewhere. Guilt isn't a sure fire way to discern absolute right from wrong, but because of the simple fact that we have a conscious, and especially because we are Christians who posses the holy spirit that is able to work through...

I mostly agree with what your saying, but I really haven't been arguing anything along those standards of reason. The main arguments I had tried to focus on in the OP, and am still trying to focus on, are ones drawn from the bible and its verse content.