Waterrock said:
(Emphasis mine.)
Seems, huh? Seems, basically meaning a subjective interpretation of the passage, one which happens to make your guy look like a good guy instead of someone whose vanity requires men to give up their families to follow him on the Palestine hippy tour?
Incidental family abandoning??? Come on....did you just make that up?
If your god is all good and all powerful, why did he need these guys to abandon (incidentally or purposefully) to follow his boy around on earth? Couldn't god have picked 12 single guys with no dependents? Did he not care that these mens' children would be deprived of their fathers?
LL
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Jesus seems to be speaking here not of deliberate family-abandoning, but of incidental family-abandoning
(Emphasis mine.)
Seems, huh? Seems, basically meaning a subjective interpretation of the passage, one which happens to make your guy look like a good guy instead of someone whose vanity requires men to give up their families to follow him on the Palestine hippy tour?
Incidental family abandoning??? Come on....did you just make that up?
If your god is all good and all powerful, why did he need these guys to abandon (incidentally or purposefully) to follow his boy around on earth? Couldn't god have picked 12 single guys with no dependents? Did he not care that these mens' children would be deprived of their fathers?
LL
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"You are thinking for yourself! ...be careful when thinking only for yourself because you will often be wrong!" - David From Texas, SAB Discussion boards, explaining why we shouldn't think for ourselves when reading the bible or discussing religion.
"You are thinking for yourself! ...be careful when thinking only for yourself because you will often be wrong!" - David From Texas, SAB Discussion boards, explaining why we shouldn't think for ourselves when reading the bible or discussing religion.
