You have that right, giving some reason why my view isn't supported by the Bible would have been more helpful that the hinge point being the validity of your own 'knowledge', please include the below references in your rebuttal.
First off, I don't need to debate bible quotes with you to debate the topic at hand, because the topic is about the people who try to finger point at others and judge them on whether or not they're going to hell or getting smitted by God, as if they somehow know without a doubt.
And considering I read enough of the bible growing up and was raised up until the age of 20 as a Roman Catholic, my knowledge & the validity of that knowledge is equal or even greater then your own in regards to the subject.
So stop trying to side-track the debate with pointlessness. That's what you're type always do anyways when you can't counter an argument or refute the claims of someone else.... you try and go off on a tangent & side-track in order to confuse or make others forget what the original debate/argument was about.
Re.19:21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse,
which sword proceeded out of his mouth:
and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
^ Nothing relating to the topic at hand and is basic jibberish meant for anybody and their dog to interprete anyway they damn well please to justify anything they want supported, especially when taken out of context.
Isa.65:12
Therefore will I number you to the sword,
and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter:
because when I called, ye did not answer;
when I spake,
ye did not hear;
but did evil before mine eyes,
and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
The same.
Jer.25:32:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
Behold,
evil shall go forth from nation to nation,
and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Continued jibberish relating to the fear of evil & corruption spreading, all written by a lowly human centuries ago, which has been translated, edited and re-worded countless times over those centuries to the point none of it holds any relevant meaning in todays world.
Jer.25:33
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered,
nor buried;
they shall be dung upon the ground.
A wonderful example of God's love for all mankind.
Zec.13:8
And it shall come to pass,
that in all the land,
saith the LORD,
two parts therein shall be cut off and die;
but the third shall be left therein.
Continued jibberish taken out of context to prove nothing.
Zec.13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire,
and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will try them as gold is tried:
they shall call on my name,
and I will hear them:
I will say,
It is my people:
and they shall say,
The LORD is my God.
Those who worship & believe in God and accept him as their lord will be magically turned into silver & gold as an acient translation and reference to human's superficial lust for wealth, power & worldly possessions.
There are also just as many references to show that the 'punishment' is a cleansing step it also has a set time limit. If you or others don't know that part, or reject it out of hand as being what the Bible promotes that is your concern, not mine.,
Not my concern as none of the above has anything to do with the original post & topic at hand...... the topic isn't about the bible, it's about people like you who use the bible, twist the vauge words within the bible, that were written by a lowly human like you and I, and using those words in the bible to justify meddling in the affairs and business of others who don't share their views, and continue to finger wag at them that they're going to go to hell or be smitted by God.
For every bible passage you dig up, there are several other passages in the bible that directly contradict..... which is why the religion is so screwed up today and contains so many schisms.
Thanks for trying to side-track though.
Now you need great debating skills to post on a thread that attacks your group rather than some individual who just happens to be part of the same group. If that was a requirement the net would be a desert, what did your post add to what the OP started off, I missed that part of your post or is this just a support bump even though you added nothing, you even replied in detail to a point you classified as being totally useless. It's one thing to have a valid bitch and quite another when the motivator for the OP is too much time on their hands.
If you knew how to read beyond your selective view of posts, you'd see that I not only agreed to the original post's point, but also I added other examples & arguments, as well as logical explanations to the situation at hand.
What have you done?
Gone on about bible quotes & avoided what the topic is actually about..... you flailed your armed up in the air about people stating their opinion on a specific topic and ranted about them not knowing anything about the bible, when what's being talked about isn't the bible at all, but some of those who believe in it and God.
In other words, I added a hell of a lot more to the topic then you have.
Thanks for playing though.
