PeaceOfMind

What's hilarious is this hymn's blatant idolization of the Bible.

What angers me is that people such as this author just assume that abstaining until marriage automatically leads to amazing sex...with having no other experience to compare it to.

More like, "My rod in your shaft shall comfort you."

"You put the 'cute' back in persecution...'' "Welcome to the christian family... the only family where brothers and sisters can marry each other." "I would bring your father twelve-hundred Philistine foreskins for just one date with you." "Are you a homosexual? Because it’s burning up in here." "What's your name and number so I can add you to my "prayer" list?" "I was reading the book of Numbers and I noticed I didn't have yours." "Hey girl. I'd love to show you 50 shades of grace..." "You are like manna from heaven: Fresh everyday."

"You are perfect, except with all the sin."

I chose this name to represent what I desired - peace of mind - after putting my days as a Pentecostal fundamentalist behind me. The picture you see to the left is me, about 7-8 years ago. Not much as changed since then.

I'm Leo, and Hannah was a former schoolmate of mine.

As I recall, the fundie explanation cop-out was that Jesus was God-in-the-flesh supplanted with human emotions, thus fully experiencing isolation from God (Technically himself?) while bearing our sins. So, once again someone makes up a convenient reason? Do they ever state this in the Bible? I don't recall it. There is actually nothing Biblical to support that claim, as with a handful of other scriptures (Gen. 2:17 comes to mind). God so clearly states that Adam will the die the day he eats of the fruit, and yet he didn't. Why? Because God -really- didn't mean he would experience physical death, but spiritual death. Again, it's another cop-out reason with nothing to back it up.

It makes no sense because we're responsible for a life we didn't ask for, punished for a crime we didn't commit, and expected to live up to impossible, 'perfect' standards. For all of this we're condemned to eternal punishment for things that are practically out of our control.

As I recall, the fundie explanation cop-out was that Jesus was God-in-the-flesh supplanted with human emotions, thus fully experiencing isolation from God (Technically himself?) while bearing our sins.

So true. Since God is supposedly omnipotent, death could never have been stronger than God. So it's just a big scheme. God devised the problem and the solution. A big asshole. The brilliant idea to unfuck the world is practically nonsensical when you already have predetermined plans set to begin with. You would think something so obvious would challenge more Christians in their faith in salvation too, but...no. So God is either an incredibly sadistic asshole, or incredibly fucking retarded.

In the above scriptures we see that Jesus has conquered death through resurrection. What occurred to me today is that this concept does not, literally, make sense when taking in the fact that God is supposedly all-encompassing - in both knowledge and presence. With this in mind, is it not fair to say that God could not have defeated sin or death, simply because he created these circumstances and knew their outcomes, and can do anything at whim? It's like someone claiming victory on a test they themselves created; devised all the questions and knew all the answers.

Traditional Values? Why do these people insist that life mimick Leave it to Beaver?