I will say this about our unbelieving members here, and I say this to the believers.
They truly do believe what they are saying.
How do I know this?
Because the scriptures themselves say that the Gospel is foolishness to them that are perishing.
They do not believe, because they have "hard hearts".
I pray that God would give them instead hearts of flesh, that they may understand and believe.
Until that time, please do not see unbelievers as enemies, per se. See them rather as folks who need what you were once freely given...eyes to see and ears to hear.
Nobody mentioned foolishness. It's history. The bible is a testament to what people believed in the time and place when the books were written.
That is evident in the differences between the nature and character of God during the early period (a god of war) through to new testament times and the influence of Greek Philosophy (Paul's time in Greece).
