Daily Bible Verse

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— Romans 12:2 (CEV)

"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it."
-- Robert Heinlein

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“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him.”   [C. S. Lewis]

2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."
("demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,” as Paul said we should.)

Romans 8:6-7 (KJV)
"6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

Romans 1:16 (KJV)
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."

Luke 9:5 (KJV)
"And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them."

James 1:5 (KJV)
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him."

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2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)

Romans 8:6-7 (KJV)
  
Romans 1:16 (KJV)

Luke 9:5 (KJV)

James 1:5 (KJV)

As for the tyhumping above: Presumably, prolonged pompous proselytizing propaganda produces prefrontal petrification.

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 2 Timothy 2:15
King James Version

"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

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2 Timothy 2:15

"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

"The study of theology,  as it stands in xtian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing."
--Thomas Paine, in The Age Of Reason

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 James 3:16

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

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James 3:16

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
-- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758

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Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you. Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind. — James 4:7-8 (CEV)

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For GOD so love the world that HE gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in HIM shall not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

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For GOD so love the world that HE gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in HIM shall not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

There's no evidence to support that religious contention.  It therefore stems from blind faith.  Blind faith appears to be a mental disability which religious fundies suffer from that causes evangelical tourettes outbursts.

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"Surrender to God!"

There's no need to "surrender" to some hypothetical egregore which has no evidence of actual existence.  That would be irrational.

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The first to Timothy was written by Paul, from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana. (I Timothy 6:17-21, KJV)

17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

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"... avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called"

The hypocrisy in the babbling 'bible' is not as astounding as one may have previously thought.  Such mindless faith is blind, such belief sans evidence is deaf.

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Ephesians 2:8-10, KJV:

"8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."


Psalm 19:1, KJV:

"1 The heavens declare the glory of God;

And the firmament sheweth his handywork."


Romans 1:20, KJV:

"20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"

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Ephesians 2:8-10, KJV:
Psalm 19:1, KJV:
Romans 1:20, KJV:

The blindness of religious faith is unable to see insightful reason; irrational religious belief is deaf to the soundness of rationality.  Having such blind faith and deaf belief may prompt some to treat the religious as disabled by choice.