Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Lucy #195: You initially state that, ―you take two verses of the Bible to try and live
by and ignore all the other teachings of Jesus -- his death, and his resurrection, as well as what
has to take place for the sinner.‖
Actually, my Friend, this statement is absolutely incorrect! I have not given you
merely two verses that support my biblical interpretation, I have given you thousands of them
in this conversation alone. In addition, as you well know, I have written extensively outside
the bounds of this thread on Jesus, on his crucifixion, and on his message to sinners about sin.
And as you well know, I am the one who has lived his Way for the past eleven+ years and I
am the one who is sharing the Good Fruit it has born for me. Lucy, between the two of us, I
am the one who sees how the Bible is actually one huge tome of choices – a huge collection
of contradictory verses & theologies from which Christians must choose. You, on the other
hand, are a ―biblical literalist‖, and as such you have claimed that you believe every single
verse in the Bible to eb absoluteTruth. Thus it is you who needs to be concerned with the two
verses in question (Matthew 5:48 + 1 John 4:18*), and it is you who must admit that you
must either discard these two verses, or admit that Hell does not exist (or at the very least admit
that it is not eternal &/or at the very least admit that it is not at all supported by God).
So, my dear Friend, which is it going to be?
[*NOTE: For those just tuning in, Matthew 5:48 proclaims quite clearly that God‘s Love is
perfect – complete and full, given without blemish or exception, and 1 John 4:18 says that this perfect
form of Love casts out all forms of fear – that the two cannot co-exist. The latter verse also says that
punishment always comes from fear, and as such, that it is thus literally impossible for the all-Loving &
fear-devoid Father of jesus Christ to punish anyone for any length of time – be it in Hell or elsewhere!]
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