Playing a round-robin guessing game with a second BeliefNet article, 'Seven lies we believe about God,' the hosts list the article's seven: God is of my denomination; God is a prude (prompting a frank segment on Christians viewing sex as dirty, with the article's line that God built humans able to have sex); God hates us (the hosts note many people accept God's love in the abstract but cannot believe it applies to them); God is in my political party; God is religious — the hosts push back, citing James on true religion and arguing that 'relationship not religion' should not be used to trash structured belief; God thinks less of women (things like 'weaker vessel' must be wrestled with in context, not read in isolation); and God does not exist, which the hosts laugh at as a lie no believer would hold. The article's closing charge — examine your preconceived notions and weed out what is not truly scriptural — earns their approval.
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Ask the Pastor: Joan of Arc and violence in God's name
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Article one: does the Bible teach us to obey authority?
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Dear LFTP: the political sister who won't stop debasing my candidate
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