http://disqus.com/by/biblejournal/enTue, 02 Feb 2010 17:59:12 -0000http://jonthewallflower.tumblr.com/post/299116811#comment-32428138<p>Loved it... not sure it's perfectly accurate, but nontheless... possibly the best Christmas parody I have yet heard!</p>biblejournalTue, 02 Feb 2010 17:59:12 -0000http://here.am/post/219120179#comment-20787051<p>Here we are, mincing over words again... As I said "I'm not trying to proove Christianity", You may like to know that many Christians are in fact; intelligent, moral, compassionate, loving, honest and in a stable frame of mind.</p><p>Words are of huge importance. I'd never say they aren't, but we're all liable to make mistakes in them and to misunderstand them. It all comes back to this: We all have different viewpoints, different ways to see things. I am able to admit that, perhaps you will never be.</p><p>You would be well advised to know that Christians do not miss out on quite a lot, as you claim. No science is incompatable with Christianity, none (that's my viewpoint anyway), and there are many Christians you'll find that are able to admit living a much happier, fuller life than before they were Christians.</p><p>The 'sprinkles on top' metaphor wasn't relating to science at all... just relating to the tiny word you decided to base an argument about Christianity on, when there is an entire cake of 2000 years of faith, study and story. A large part of the Christian life is about learning and finding out more about God. If you claim that isn't to do with knowledge, I don't think any of your points can be valid at all.</p><p>Science is not 'sprinkles on top'. It is coming to an understanding of our world. It is vastly important not to think science should not be studied. However, I think that our knowledge shouldn't be kept to only our physical nature, but spiritual also. It's like changing between studying 2D graphs and 3D graphs. An entire other dimension is included. Sure it's more difficult to work out, but it can only increase our knowledge further.</p><p>Some day, perhaps, athiests will realise that Christians are not 'delusional'. Isn't it funny how Christians don't call athiests delusional - they don't have the arrogance or ignorance to do so.</p><p>One last comment: Any good scientist will agree;<br>Don't only consider one direction of reasoning to be true. If you go down that line, you'll get stuck at an answer that has very little chance of being correct. Christians are asked to be 'open-minded' in Paul's teaching (although many will shy away from the fact). We can accept that we don't understand, and appreciate that we may not be correct about everything. You'd be well advised to take a similar stance.</p>biblejournalThu, 22 Oct 2009 11:50:05 -0000http://here.am/post/219120179#comment-20744373<p>As far as the 'it' goes, I only have Twitter to blame. No room to write a blog on each comment I make I'm afraid. But take it how you will. I didn't ever say that things aren't true. We firmly believe that the Bible is the word of God, and everything in it is true. I merely stated that passages could be looked at in different ways.</p><p>"Made up" is an unusual way to classify Christianity. Look at science. It changes every decade... one minute it's one theory and another the next, not that there's anything wrong with that, however... Christianity has changed little in 2000 years. Since Jesus' time it has remained the same. As far as 'made up' goes, it's pretty solid stuff. I'm not trying to proove Christianity, merely point out it's wrong to consider it as just 'made-up'.</p><p>It's time to stop stirring around over words and start to realise you've got to get into something, dive right in and look to the heart of the matter - not just the sprinkles on top, but the sponge underneath (like the cake metaphor?)</p><p>God loves the world because he made it. It went wrong, and since then he has been trying to bring it back to perfection. He never gives up on things, ever. </p>biblejournalWed, 21 Oct 2009 17:44:59 -0000http://here.am/post/219120179#comment-20707650<p>I'm guessing you aren't overly familiar with Christianity? Even if so, I'd like to point out the obvious misunderstanding... When I wrote 'it' I was referring to faith, mentioned in the previous tweet. Christianity is clearly inconsistant without knowledge of the Bible and of God. Look at what happened within the Roman Catholic Church in the middle-ages. Wars were started and the opposite message of Christ was shown, largely because people had no knowledge of the Bible other than what others told them. If you want to see Christian integrity in a different light, look at it as having knowledge of God outside of what you have read in the Bible. The passage can be looked at from many different angles. If you want to check out the passage in the Bible in full context, look up 2 Peter 1:5-8.</p><p>Love, Biblejournal.</p>biblejournalWed, 21 Oct 2009 12:07:51 -0000