[MadPoet]

Originally Posted by onion

The thing about Christianity is you cannot pick and chose what and what not to believe. It's either all true or none of it is true. You either believe God, or you believe He is a liar. I can tell you I believe God, because for me there is to much evidence of His existence to call Him a liar, when the book is the WORD of God. So to eliminate any part of the Bible is eliminating what God Himself said.

But isn't that exactly what Christians have done? Pick and choose what to believe throughout the bible? Sure they believe what the bible says about God, but what about the things that God has said to do? In The Old Testament, for example, God clearly did not believe that women were as important and valuable as men. He taught that men should be honored more than woman. So, if we were to believe every thing written in the bible, wouldn't that apply as well? Wouldn't that mean that Christian's are sinning, because they do not believe men are more valuable than women? In my mind, saying "God says there is a Hell, but that, in my mind, is far to cruel" is no different than saying "God used to teach that women were of less value of men, but that doesn't hold to be true in the New Testament or in society today." But God still said it. He obviously does not believe that women are good for anything else other than having kids for men. If I'm going to believe all of the bible, that would also mean that I would have to believe this as well, that I'm not as worthy as a man. That homosexuals will burn in Hell. I would have to believe that if I committed a terrible sin, I must be stoned. Do you hold things like this to be true? Assuming you do not believe these things... then what do you believe God is? Do you believe he is a liar?