Quote Originally Posted by Egapal View Post
Well and if you look at my original post that's my point. I think its wrong for someone to quote the bible as a reason not to talk about their good works. I believe in the bible in as much as I own one, its real. I don't believe its a moral guide inspired by a supernatural all powerful being or anything like that so I would have to say its all moot. My entire point is that its wrong to use a quote from a book to impose your will on another and especially so when a few sentences earlier in the same book it talks about how you should do the opposite and now we get down to arguing that its all about what a person is thinking at the time. Well fine, ok so its complicated but it wasn't so complicated a second ago when dsirkle said you shouldn't be talking about your good works and here is why. So to sum up, I don't accept the bible as a moral authority, I don't accept dsirkle's or Jim's interpretation of the book, even if I did I don't concede that anyone here is bragging as they are talking about things they did when asked to do so.
I guess I don't see Dale's quote as "imposing his will on another." No more than I see YOUR statements here as "imposing your will" on me. It's just two different people expressing two different viewpoints about how life works. You publicly posted a question about the supposed discrepancy you saw in the Scriptures. I and others have answered that. Maybe Jim was a little more "in your face" with his response... I dunno why his set you off but mine didn't. But all it was was answering a question that you brought up. There really is no such thing as a rhetorical question on a public forum.

For what it's worth....while I DO agree with the moral stance of the Scripture that Dale quoted, that does NOT mean I think Neil or anyone else in this thread was "tooting their own horn" for the wrong reasons. As I said...that is between them and God...I'm just THRILLED to see people working for the betterment of our world, whether that be more towards helping people or helping animals or the environment, or whatever. We've ALL been given responsibility over the world we live in, whether you believe in the Bible or not.