Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Scaughdt: Well, my Friend, you haven‘t really directly addressed any of the major points I
made previously, but I guess it doesn‘t matter, because there is Truth therein for you & others to
go back and read whenever you wish … Sooooooo, we will just shift the discussion a bit: instead
of attempting to have an open-hearted discussion about the two equally valid interpretations of
Scripture and the two completely different versions of God & Jesus & Heaven therein, I think
we‘ll just assume for the sake of argument that your analysis is the correct one and see where
that leads us, yes? … After all, I am the one who has chosen to be humble enough to repeatedly
state that you might be right about the nature of God & sin & salvation – so let‘s delve deeper
into what is going to happen to us all if you are …
Lucy #020: First of all, you state that ―there is forgiveness for every sin … but there is a
condition‖ for the same … Yes, Paul does indeed state this in the Bible, and this most certainly
is an accurate reflection of his take on salvation therein. Of course, what are the consequences
for all of humanity if such a thing is true?
*First of all, God‘s Love becomes no longer anywhere near the ―perfect‖ status given to it
by Jesus himself (Matthew 5:48) … Indeed, any LOVE that is truly perfect does not require any
obedience (or apply any conditions, or demand any subservience) whatsoever – especially from a
Divine Being who is supposedly all-knowing an all-powerful. I mean, I myself know that any
truly loving human father would never punish his children forever for making even the most dire
of mistakes (see the Parable of the Prodigal Son; an accurate reflection of what I mean – Luke 15:11-32)
… And yet your version of God for some reason cannot grasp this concept. He needs to be
worshiped fully & bowed down to appropriately or damnation will ensue. So what we have here
right off the bat is a God who is fundamentally petty & abjectly insecure – in a
contrast most marked to the way Jesus describes the heavenly Father in the Gospels.
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