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Originally Posted by filtherton
I guess I'm just confused as to why you brought it up. You said that most denominations were the same, and then immediately afterward you mentioned that your father's sermons could have been given in any church. Were these two statements unrelated?
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Not at all. The point was that the subtle differences are so small that they've failed to come up in the last 15 years of my dad's sermons.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
When I spoke of laziness I was referring to the kind of intellectual vigor that results in a person presuming that a few select holy book quotations can be used to effectively understand how the vast majority of theists view their god.
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This represents a rather odd window where a person completely trusts an ancient book of myths, so much so as to believe in the supernatural without question, but also is skeptical enough to not take the book at face value?
Omnipotence is WIDELY accepted across all Abrahamic faiths.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
How about benevolence? Do you have any verses where god claims that he's never going to let anyone suffer?
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You mean malevolence, right?