The Garden and the Fall

[Butch5]

Every "Christian" can see what it says.

What is different about your sect?

It doesn't say anything. We have to read it. That requires one to interpret what the text means.

 

[Butch5]

I will bet you you're a Mormon or a JW.

But tell me otherwise.

I'd take that bet.

 

[David1954]

I will bet you you're a Mormon or a JW.

But tell me otherwise.

Let's see what God said:

"and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever"

 

[Sue D.]

Please look at Genesis 3: 22 :Then the Lord God said,"Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, at eat, and live forever" --- therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken."

 

[David1954]

It doesn't say anything. We have to read it. That requires one to interpret what the text means.

I never interpret the Bible.

Heretics feel the need.

 

[Butch5]

I never interpret the Bible.

Heretics feel the need.

When you read it that's what you're doing. The Bible can't speak to you and say this is what the passage means. You read it and interpret it based on your worldview and understanding. Everyone has to do this.

 

[David1954]

Sue D., You are conspicuously correct.

Butch is afraid to reveal his denominational influence.

 

[David1954]

When you read it that's what you're doing. The Bible can't speak to you and say this is what the passage means. You read it and interpret it based on your worldview and understanding. Everyone has to do this.

Lol... I say again, I can ask a hundred people who know nothing about Christianity, who can see what It says.

Why don't you reveal what doctrines you are loyal to which need to deny it??

 

[David1954]

When you read it that's what you're doing. The Bible can't speak to you and say this is what the passage means. You read it and interpret it based on your worldview and understanding. Everyone has to do this.

So you say you are not a Mormon or a JW. Are you a Buddhist or a Muslim?

 

[David1954]

Why can't you tell us?

 

[Butch5]

Sue D., You are conspicuously correct.

Butch is afraid to reveal his denominational influence.

I don't do denominations. They divide the body. In Jesus' prayer in John 17 He prayed that His followers would be one. Denominations separate.

 

[Butch5]

Why can't you tell us?

I told you. The Christian Church would be the closest.

 

[Butch5]

Lol... I say again, I can ask a hundred people who know nothing about Christianity, who can see what It says.

Why don't you reveal what doctrines you are loyal to which need to deny it??

You can ask a hundred people and they'll all have to interpret it. I don't have any sacred cows.

 

[David1954]

I don't have any sacred cows.

Lol. You are telling us this is yours.

 

[David1954]

Why is this your sacred cow?

 

[Butch5]

Why is this your sacred cow?

I asked you why you're interpretation was required by the text. You didn't answer. If you can't tell me why, then you have no basis to claim I'm wrong.

 

[David1954]

I asked you why you're interpretation was required by the text. You didn't answer. If you can't tell me why, then you have no basis to claim I'm wrong.

I think I told you I never interpret the Bible, and any atheist could see what the Book plainly says, which you don't like. And you won't tell us why.

 

[David1954]

You say you're not a Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon, so I conclude you are Church of Christ.

But why are you afraid to tell us?

 

[Butch5]

I think I told you I never interpret the Bible, and any atheist could see what the Book plainly says, which you don't like. And you won't tell us why.

Then that must mean you don't read it. Everyone who reads it must interpret what it says. That's just the way it is. The Bible can't speak and the writers aren't here.

 

[David1954]

Then that must mean you don't read it. Everyone who reads it must interpret what it says. That's just the way it is. The Bible can't speak and the writers aren't here.

I have never in my life, and will never, interpret the Bible.

What is your secret? You have joined some leader with some crazy notions?