alex said:
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isn't it great how you can fairly much find SOME passage or other in the bible that supports precisely what you think in the first place.

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no, i don't think it would.

see...

if one can find evidence in the bible to support ones belief that p (one is allowed to judge)

and one can find evidence in the bible to support ones belief that not p (one is not allowed to judge)

then it would seem to me that the bible doesn't tell you whether it is okay or not.

instead of the bible showing someone that either p or not p the bible kind of says both so its really of no help with respect to us deciding whether it is okay to judge or not.

so...

in practice...

people have an intuition that its ok (or its not ok as the case may be). then, when they are called on to justify their belief they say ''cause the bible tells me so'. trouble is that god seems to be on their opponents side too... so...

i'm thinking that maybe the bible isn't so useful with respect to justifying ones beliefs after all and isn't so useful with respect to telling you what you should do after all...

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Did you forget, alex, that we are in the spirituality forum? Since you don't believe this way, I think posting argumentatively is not allowed. I purposely didn't post this in another's thread, but made one to stand alone. It is meant as an encouragement to Christians to be strong in apologetics.