Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
All fair enough, I never professed to be the greatest christian nor did my sins trully push me away from the church. I like most Christians were able to compartmentalize those things and still profess a love and belief in Jesus.
This is my major problem with some Protestant denominations, you can't compartmentalise like that, you have to accept yourself, whole and inperfect. I feel bad about my Sins, but I keep trying - and I keep failing to to not turn my head every time a pretty girl walks past so I can look at her backside and rate it on a scale of 1-100.

Still, I try not to dwell on my failings.

What I can't reconcile with is the logical games and holes. I have always had many questions and everytime I have asked them I was given a roundabout hot air answer all tied up with "Jesus loves you"

Anytime you have to bend a beilif system which still claims to be the rigid word of God you lose credibilty.
Well, this was either bad theology or bad explanation - the one would actually be wrong, the other would be glossing over complexity and dumbing down. Either way smells pretty fishy.

For example: The Bible is catagorically not the unmediated Word of God, because it is flawed and God, being perfect, therefore obviously did not write it himself. To suggest otherwise is bad theology, and would have been considered obvious nonsense before the invention of the printing press when you could compare the work of two scribes copying the Bible and detect the corruptions both had created.