First you asnwers the question, of course by saying it is "strange" to ask such a thing. This is saying a "No" with a comment that it is strange to think someone is assuming the impression is even being given of the insinuation -
"You, are strange to think I demand that you have to adore everything in the Bible you believe is true." [paraphrased]
It is a strange thing for me to ask.
It is frivolous or unecessary to ask.
You are certainly not obligated to like what you believe, what a strange thing to ask.
Then he proceeds to heap on guilt, revulsion, disgust to mostly his own understanding of what I gather he supposes I would refer to, namely etermal judgment by God.
Maybe it’s the first shoe-drop of an upcoming excuse for you to abdicate all responsibility for what morally abominable, logically incomprehensible, scripturally incoherent, genocidal appalling torture you believe your version of the loving Jesus will be dishing out to billions upon billions of the human beings he died for. Because he loves them.
The second paragraph carries these accusations.
1.) For God to eternally judge is "morally abominable."
2.) For God to eternally judge is "logically incomprehensible."
3.) For God to judge eternally is "scripturally incoherent."
4.) For God to judge eternally is "genocidal."
5.) For God to judge eternally could only be "appalling torture."
6.) For God to judge eternally is undeserved to anyone, presummable Satan, evil angels, demonic or human.
6.) For God to judge eternally means Jesus is not "loving."
7.) For God to judge eternally reflects His eagerness that billions and billions perish.
8.) For God to judge eternally is impossible to reconcile with God's love.
I am not obligated to agree with you on all of these attached 8 points.
I am not obligated to think because I do not like something out of the mouth of
Christ, I should accept all your reasons for why you dislike what He said.
I am not obligated to agree with you that you have spoken the infallible truth.
The response I expect is for you to act like you are not trying to heap guilt on me for having my attitude or maybe just waiting a bit for reinforcement from someone like FMF or Ghost or moonbase.
I am a Christian believing that the Bible is the revelation from God.
One thing that is not always easy for any created human being on this side of the rebellion of Satan and man is the prospect of God's absolute authority and power.
What I mean is that on one hand the realization of God's absolute authority and power is very comforting. And there is more than plenty of ground to evidence that in Scripture.
On the other hand, many things in this world have two sides. The absolute authority and power of an eternal God can have a fearful effect, especially on one effected from youth that I am autonomous, independent, and at enmity with the righteousness, holiness, and glory of God.
@sonship saidNo
I am a Christian and committed to the belief that the Bible is the word of God - a true revelation from God to the human race.
Does believing that the Bible is the truth from God obligate me that to have to LIKE everything I read ?
@sonship saidNo. Liking it is irrelevant. You are called upon to obey, not like, what you read there.
I am a Christian and committed to the belief that the Bible is the word of God - a true revelation from God to the human race.
Does believing that the Bible is the truth from God obligate me that to have to LIKE everything I read ?
No. Liking it is irrelevant. You are called upon to obey, not like, what you read there.
There is something even more fundamental than that. You must INHALE.
You must spiritually "breath in" as in breathing in the breathed out the living breath of God.
All Scrupture is "God breathed and profitable . . . ".
All Scripture is inspired or "God breathed".
Spiritually we must inhale as in breathing in the living breath of God who breathed out His word - "All Scripture".
Did you ever hear that?
2 Timothy 3:156
New International Version
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
Or
English Standard Version
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Ah, once again -
King James Bible
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Don't get tired yet. You also have -
Amplified Bible
All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness
Just a few more?
Weymouth New Testament
Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;
World English Bible
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
Young's Literal Translation
every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,
@FMF
How many institutions of moral ministering humanitarian assistance have been established by Bible believing Christians as compared to God non-believing atheists?
Historically, there is no comparison.
Under the banner of faith in Christ much more humantarian and moral outreach
has historically occured.
I think your moral higher ground of atheism is mostly your wishful hype.
Google up humanitarian outreaches to Ukrainians which have church or Christian in their descriptions. Then Google up in comparison those with atheism as their banner.
Speaking as a non-believer, I would say that ~ to my way of thinking ~ subscribing to everything in the Bible [let alone "liking" it] is an indication of moral dysfunction.
You have spoken of your admiration for Desmod Tutu and I believe in conjuction with that the Truth and Reconcilation courts in South Africa.
Tut being and Angligan cleric built his concept of a Truth and Reconcilation panel basewd on Christian theology. If atheists were morally more functional and Bible believers dysfunctional morally how come that panel was not established by atheist organizations primarily rather than Christian theology based structures?
@sonship saidI don't know.
How many institutions of moral ministering humanitarian assistance have been established by Bible believing Christians as compared to God non-believing atheists?
My comment was about individuals' personal moral compasses and not about institutions.
@sonship saidI haven't claimed that atheists are "morally more functional" than Christians.
If atheists were morally more functional and Bible believers dysfunctional morally how come that panel was not established by atheist organizations primarily rather than Christian theology based structures?
I have claimed that subscribing to everything in the Bible ~ which, I presume, would include your torturer God ideology ~ is an indication of moral dysfunction.
I would think that most Christians who have sound moral compasses arrive at that condition by NOT subscribing to - or even genuinely believing - everything in the Bible, despite what they might claim about themselves in public.