Miles,

So in other words you're saying that your personal eccentricity is to believe that not only deliberate disobedience of God constitutes 'sin', but even a simply misunderstanding of the scriptures, or having been deceived by preachers who proclaim to know what the scriptures mean also constitutes a condition of 'sin' and is grounds for casting a person into the state of eternal damnation of everlasting punishment?

But by your very on interpretations here, how or why should anyone believe your views?

Perhaps it is your views that are a gross misunderstanding of these scriptures. Perhaps you are one of those that deceive people by teaching them misunderstandings of the scriptures?

All you are basically telling people is that they can't TRUST anyone to have the word of God correct. And that would certainly include trusting YOU.

Moreover you have quoted from the scriptures the following:

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Messiah; and shall deceive many.

Where has anyone came claiming to be the Messiah?

Other than a few individual fruitcakes who actually got that idea from these very fables we haven't seen any major figure who has claimed to be the Messiah of these stories.

In fact, it's highly questionable whether this man named Jesus or Yashua ever actually claimed to be "The Messiah". All we have are second-hand rumors that he might have vaguely implied that this might be the case.

In fact, doesn't the story go that his disciples told him that there are rumors that he was the Messiah, and Jesus asked them, "What do you think" and they said, "We think you are", and Jesus replied, "Well don't tell anyone that until I'm dead and gone".

In other words, Jesus was saying that he wanted no parts of any such rumors.

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In any case, in order for me to accept your personal eccentricity I must believe that our creator will not only allow people to misunderstand his instructions to them, and be deceived about them by others, but he will also condemn those people to eternal damnation simply because they have misunderstood something or because they had been deceived.

My personal eccentricity is to reply to you that it is my heartfelt conviction that any creator who would be so insensitive about people's sincerity that he would condemn those who merely misunderstand, or who have been deceived by others, would be far from righteous.

Such a creator would be a totally insensitive jerk, IMHO.

The creator can't go around blaming people for misunderstanding things, especially considering the fact that the Abrahamic religions themselves represent nothing more than a collection of extremely vague translated and transcribed scriptures that even the most sincere devoted believers can't agree what they mean.

In short, even many of the most devoted believers would necessarily have grossly misunderstood interpretations of these scriptures.

The Jews, the Muslims, the Catholics, and the myriad of Protestants who have protested against Catholicism in favor of worshiping their own personal eccentricities and interpretations of scriptures all have a different take on what these things say.

So the vast majority of humans would be cast into a state of eternal damnation and everlasting punishment simply because they have misunderstood something.

And I'm supposed to believe that on PURE FAITH?

It'd rather have PURE FAITH that it's all rubbish, to be perfectly honest with you.

That's my personal eccentricity.