FSA's God Squad Review I
Latest God Squad
Seeing as how TRA has gone off the deep end, I have taken it upon myself to begin reviewing the God Squad. I figure it will give me something to write about and get me on a schedule. Besides, I liked the old god squad reviews, so I hope I can do the spirit of those reviews justice in this inaugural issue of FSA's God Squad reviews.
In this weeks God Squad, we have a couple of vapid points about names of churches and dealing with a catholic mother-in-law that won't attend other denominations baptism before we get to this juicy question:My friend asked me the following question. How would you respond?: 'Can you give biblical proof or point to an event that proves the existence of the Holy Spirit?'
My main quibble with this is how does anything in the bible provide proof to this point and I wonder if the "friend" really only wanted an "event" more so than "text in an old book". As to be expected the squad took the easy way out and just passed along a bible quote, specifically 1 Corinthians 2:9-13 (KJV): "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: For the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. . . . Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
As it is written where exactly? I'm assuming the bible. This is always the problem with biblical proof of anything, for example:
Atheist: How do you know god exists?
Christian: Well, it says so right here in the bible.
Atheist: But the bible was written by men.
Christian: No, it's the word of God.
Atheist: Well, how do you know that?
Christian: Well, it says so right here in the bible...
And round and round we go. To top if off there are numerous versions of the bible, even some with cool myths. Plus there are all the various translations issues.
I remember watching Robin Williams on Broadway where he was joking about muslim suicide bombers with this joke (I'm paraphrasing): Recently a Muslim scholar has come forth saying that due to a translation error in the Koran, that it's not 72 virgins but 72 raisens. Can you imagine the look on that guys face when he gets to heaven and says, 'Where's my bitches'...'Here are your raisens'..
Could you imagine if it wasn't the "meek" that inherited the earth, but the "freaks" due to one translation error? And it wasn't "turn the other cheek", but "take their mother's first-born son and eat him"? Ridiculous, right?
Despite all these issues, the squad did answer the question. I only wish they had attempted to make it more substantiative and convincing than that.
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Well, clearly all that 'meek inheriting the Earth' stuff isn't going to fool anyone - which no doubt explains why the most financially savvy Christians are the polar opposite of meek.
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