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Stupid Things Religion Says

Sometimes I put things out there to get people thinking, so consider these things we've been told all of our lives by legalism and religion:

1) "You're a triune being (spirit, soul, and body), except that at some point you'll lop of a third of you and move on!"

2) "All of those verses that say if you believe in Yahshua you 'shall not perish' or 'never see death' really mean you'll die and then after that you'll live forever."

3) "Yahweh is sovereign in all things, except for you. You're really the big honcho here! The reason? Freewill! That's right! Somehow your freewill is going to stop Yahweh's Word from coming to pass. That verse about His Word never returning void? Psshhht. Must've been a typo."

4) "Yahweh loves you completely, and it's not based on works... except if you don't choose him during the brief span of eternity you spend on this Earth! Then it's fire and brimstone: eternal damnation!"

5) "Yahweh's Promises are yes and amen! Unless you mess up. That's right, put one toe out of line and no Promises for you!"

6) In a similar vein, "Yahweh says He'll never leave you... unless you do something He doesn't like! Then, whammo! He's gone until you've done enough repenting and crying about whatever you did wrong. And you'd better not do it again or you're grieving the Spirit. You know what happens then, mister!"

7) Or alternatively, "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you die! And when you die, you will be able to play that greasy grace card! That's right, for the low, low price of 'confessing with your mouth' you can live whatever lifestyle you want, and Yahweh has to sanction it because of the Blood of the Lamb."

8) "Even though Yahshua said, "It is finished" on the cross, you are required to live in a broken and incomplete state until such a time as you lop off a third of you and go to Heaven! What a glorious day that shall be!"

9) "The Kingdom is ever increasing and ever growing, so there's no end point, however life is one big cosmic race and when you get to Heaven, you've crossed a finish line at which point you will have reached perfection and never have to grow again!"

10) "We know everything there is possibly to know about Yahweh because we've been studying Him for at least 2,000 years. Yeah, sure, He's an Infinite Being, but we've read all 66 books of that Bible, so we've got this! I mean, it took 66 books to contain this Infinite Being, so we've had to do a lot of reading. Also, anything that happens that we don't understand we shall attribute to the 'mysterious, unknowable things of God!' His Ways are higher, right? We'll conveniently ignore those verses about Him giving us the mind of Christ and revealing His mysteries to us...After all, we get to pick and choose how we interpret those 66 books so that we can conveniently fit Yahweh into our nice little mental image box."

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