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In reply to the discussion: Aaron Rodgers: How Can Anyone Believe in a God Who Sends People to Hell? [View all]Major Nikon
(36,843 posts)22. And let's not forget any literal reading of the bible he doesn't like is wrong
Because he understands the original meaning of the totally anonymous authors and to prove it he will scour the googles to find some obscure reference from an irrelevant interweb author that happens to kinda sorta agree with him. Yet any other interpretation readily accepted by billions of adherents to Abrahamic religions over a millennium is just flat wrong because like everyone else they just don't understand. Eventually his claim of 'just stating his opinion' starts to look a lot more like a sermon where any dissent is forbidden.
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Aaron Rodgers: How Can Anyone Believe in a God Who Sends People to Hell? [View all]
NeoGreen
Jan 2020
OP
Vikings fan here. Rodgers has been carrying his bag of trash team on his back for several years.
Cuthbert Allgood
Jan 2020
#17
Unlike your claims about this "creator," which are completely supported, right?
trotsky
Jan 2020
#14
You are correct. I claim that you have made specific claims about your creator.
trotsky
Jan 2020
#20
And let's not forget any literal reading of the bible he doesn't like is wrong
Major Nikon
Jan 2020
#22
The great Universalists Hoseau Ballou, John Murray and others tackled this question
stewrat
Jan 2020
#28