My heart rejoices... for your children's sake 
You are welcome! I'm glad that I can bring rejoicing to your life!
Read up on your scripture man!!!! From Judges 11:
Oh, don't worry! I have been studying the Bible everyday for the last 20 years.
God may have simply been testing Abraham's faith, but he wanted Jephthah to kill his own daughter for God!!!
Also, re: Jephthah....God did not "want Jephthah to kill his own daughter for God." It was a vow Jephthah made on his own. He killed his daughter all on his own.
Maybe you should "Read up on your scripture man!!!!"
Here's my problem with "faith." "Faith" demands the suspension of reason. You are told to accept, with no evidence whatsoever, some Iron Age texts (contradictory and bizarre as they
may be) as axioms not to be questioned. Reason and common sense are to be suspended.
Thanks to her faith in Jesus Christ, Lottie Moon was driven to give up her comfy life in the US and move to China where she died helping, educating and feeding starving Chinese.
Thanks to his faith in the God of the Bible, George Muller was driven and empowered to care for, feed and educate more than 100,000 orphans in his life time.
Thanks to his faith in Jesus Christ, Dietrich Bonhoeffer refused to stand by and do nothing about the Holocaust. His faith gave him the courage to opposed Hitler's treatment of Jews and he also helped many Jews escape. For this he was arrested, tortured and murdered by the Nazis.
These are just several of many examples of the good that comes from true faith in Jesus Christ. Can you name several atheists by name that have done nearly as much as these people?
You are to be lauded for saying you won't kill your children on God's orders. But that makes you one of "little faith." You won't kill your children because your reason holds some sway over your faith, so you rationalized it away. Surely, the suicide bomber who answers God's call to kill is far more faithful than you! He practices what he preaches!!!
No. You are wrong. I won't kill my children were I to hear "God's orders" in my head because God already told me in the Bible that God does not want, and actually forbids human sacrifice. Therefore, by your own logic, that makes me a man of great faith, great faith in God and great faith in His Word, the Bible. I practice what I preach.
As for all those good acts you mention, they don't mean your faith is "right." They can just as well be practiced by a Muslim, a Jew, an Atheist, or a Buddhist. We don't need faith and supernatural threats of hell-fire and damnation to be good.
Those "good acts" are more than just that. They are God's law, and they are good. Obviously, the world was not practicing them before God gave them. Otherwise God would not have given them. People were doing the opposite and probably thinking that it was okay, burning their children on the fire for their idols, committing adultery, stealing, etc.
And how is this a "supernatural threats of hell-fire and damnation to be good."
Deuteronomy 5:16
"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 5:32-33
So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Once again, faith is the suspension of reason. Your faith may be leading you to be good, but you can be good any way.
So if my faith is leading me and many others to do good or be good, how is our faith wrong or bad? What is the problem then?
Many others are being led by faith to commit unspeakable horrors. Once again, the suicide bomber comes to mind.
Agreed, but the Bible does not teach anyone to do this, suicide bombings or suicide attacks of any kind. And that doesn't mean that faith in itself is bad or evil. It's like saying that a scalpel is evil because it's sharp and can or has been used to cut someone's throat and killed him/her. No, a scalpel was designed to perform surgery on a person to save him/her or make his/her health better. Same with faith. Faith in itself is good.
No it doesn't. None of that shows why when God speaks to Jews, or Christians, or you, it's actually God speaking, but when God speaks to Muslims and tells them to blow shit up it isn't really God speaking.
First of all, you do not see Jews or Christian suicide bombers. You do not see Jews and Christians flying planes into buildings. Explain that.
Incidentally, if the Jews are God's people, why hasn't he taken the time in the past 2000 years to send them a memo saying Judaism is over and he has a new revelation for them? Or has he stopped speaking to them ever since he started speaking to the Gentiles and Arabs?
The last time God spoke to the world was through Jesus Christ. And and God has been performing a lot of miracles with Israel in our day and age, but you refuse to see.
The rest of your logic is so fallacious and contorted (no offense meant) that it is one non sequitur after another after another.
No offense taken.
What about the Aborigines of Australia? Or the other Pacific islanders?
What about them? They can't compare to the Jews. Have they been exposed to all the same empires, attempts of assimilation, persecutions, attepmpt of exterminations over as many centuries as the Jews have? No. But I'm willing learn from you if you have any better examples.
Or the Arabs? Their languages and religions still exist.
Egypts original language was not Arab, nor were the Arab's original religion Islam. Islam is relatively new compare to Judaism and Christianity.
In fact, whereas the Hebrew language changed (the influence of Yiddish etc) Arabic is still the same today as it was in the time of Mohammed.
True, but now you are speaking of a language only, where as I was speaking of not only a language, but a nation, a people, a culture, etc. Arabs are not a nation, but a people of many nations. None can compare to Israel when you consider all aspects of the nation and the people of Israel.
In fact, God forgot the Jews
God didn't forget the Jews.
and let them be persecuted for centuries, but he helped the Muslims conquer the Orient, northern Africa, Spain, southeastern Europe, parts of France, and central Asia all the way to the borders of China. God let the Muslims conquer the Christian Byzantine empire and defeat the Crusaders. So your claims prove nothing yet again.
Only to get their butts kicked by "tiny" Israel over and over again for the past seven decades.
You seem to use the word "believe" over and over, yet you admit not having seen a single shred of evidence. You believe because you believe because you believe. How do you know that what Jesus said in the Bible is what Jesus really said? Why don't you also believe in "The Book of Mormon: A second testament of Jesus Christ"? It's just a matter of personal preference for you.
First of all, I have faith. That faith came from God when I heard God's word. After I believed, I now do see evidence everywhere. And the book of the cult of Mormon contradicts both, the New and the Old testament.
You probably don't know how scary that sounds. Let me change just two nouns...
Sounds like something you'd hear on a cassette tape from a cave in Afghanistan? It is just as valid as the statement you made.
Scary? You are really scared of Jews and Christians? Then you are very easily scared. Again, there are no Jewish or Christian suicide bombers and Jews and Christians don't fly planes into buildings. So relax.
It is very clear that you have a bone to pick with Muslims. What puzzles me is that instead of attacking the Muslim faith and their religious texts, you insist on attacking the Bible, the Jewish and the Christian faiths. You continue to throw the Bible, Christians, Jews and suicide bombers in the same sentence. It doesn't make any sense to me.
