Pete, your rant is
all over the place and yet you did not answer my question. Again,
what kind of a world would we live in if people repented of such
"thought crimes" as you put it, and sought to fulfill the
teachings of Jesus in the sermon on the mount?
Vander—do you know
what the word “rant’ means? Let me help you understand the
definition;
verb: speak or
shout at length in a wild, impassioned way.
There is a difference between “rant” and explaining-
reasoning- debunking.
Now here’s the
thing------I did answer it, but you don’t get it.
I said, quote
Or—is it possible that this fear found in the bible and
attributed to Jesus was an “IDEA” created later by the writers of
the Gospels, to Create an Imaginary Illness-- so they could sell an
Imaginary Cure, and keep the masses under their control, siphoning as
much money and life as possible from the gullible?
Even though
Christian apologists and most lay Christians assume on the basis of
4th century Church teaching that the gospels were written by
the Evangelists c.50-65 AD, ----- the scholarly consensus is that
they are the work of unknown Christians and were composed
c.68-110 AD.
That’s almost 40
years after Jesus died. Considering all the evidence of bible scholars, it
is more likely that Jesus was misquoted many times by the writers of
the Gospels who never met Jesus to begin with.
Human Nature hasn’t
changed much in 2000 years, so the way stories were told back then
about Jesus—some 40 years AFTER THE FACT, is no different than the
stories told by the media today with regards to Trump and Biden. The
stories about Trump and Biden just this year alone are so far-fetched
that the majority of people in the USA have had it with the media and
have lost all trust and faith in them.
Now imagine the
stories about Trump and Biden 40 years from now! Someone will
probably say that Trump walked on water!
Now imagine the
stories of Jesus 2000 years ago that were written about 40 years
after Jesus was long gone into the dust. This was a time when there
existed no videos, phone cameras, or recording microphones that could
record all the sayings and events of Jesus.
In such an
environment as this where only word of mouth was the source, it would
be easy for anyone to create, misquote, or just plain out lie about
any kind of story and make it seem believable.
Why a person under
this situation might even be able to convince the masses who for the
most part couldn’t even read, ------that someone could walk on
water!
HEADS UP, HERE’S
THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION.
That being the
case, why would anyone repent from a Thought Crime that was construed
by some UNKNOWN WRITER as a SIN---deserving – not of death----but
instead ---being thrown in an EVERLASTING HELL FIRE, to be smoldering
ablaze and writhing in pain forever and ever!!
That’s actually
laughable as I write it.
Humans were created
for one reason and that is to procreate, and attraction to the
opposite sex is natural.
THINKING AND DOING are two completely
different things. It doesn’t take a brain to see that it’s
ludicrous to make someone believe that punishing someone with
everlasting fire for THINKING about a woman he finds
attractive------is a good and righteous thing.
You asked the
question; what kind of a world would we live in if people repented of
such "thought crimes"
I’ll ask you this
question; (What kind of a world would we live in if Jesus’s words
WERE TRUE, and every human who ever had a passionate thought of
someone of the opposite sex was thrown into THE LAKE OF FIRE to burn
forever?)
Life would be a
living Hell for every Human ever born as billions would be writhing
in anguish this very moment.
If God truly loved
his human creation, then as I mentioned above;
quote;
If anything, an Omniscient God who knows Everything, would know
better than to create an intense desire for humans to procreate. A
God that knows Everything and can do Anything would be able to create
humans with a system where once a man finds a mate, something inside
his brain would click and stop any desire for any other women as his
sex object.
There are literally tons of animals that have this mechanism built
into them, ------why couldn’t the Creator do like wise with
humans? And these animals still have free will to do as they
please.
Then there would
be no need to “REPENT OF A THOUGHT CRIME-----would there!
