With respect to some Christians, why do you find it necesarry to...?

Question

...copy and paste entire (and long) sections of the Bible when answering a simple question on this site? Is it so hard to put your ideas into simple words for a straight and sincere answer? I mean, if we all wanted to read the Bible we would go out and buy one and read it. Don't you think?

BTW, To Aidan Bothwell,
Pleas try to be more coherent. Either you are trying to give the appearance of high intellect with you garbled sentences and metaphors, or you are not sober. I am not insulting anybody here my question is sincere.

Answer 1

good point

Answer 2

I, at times, do use sections and quotes from the Bible. These are not things I am just "copying and pasting" but things that I have read and studied for myself. I do read the Bible, unlike some who claim to be Christians and don't know what they believe besides what they're told. I like to research, read, learn. These questions sometimes challenge me in what I think is right and true, and challenge me to know where my beliefs come from. I want to give the best, most thorough answer possible in the time that I have.

There are other times when this is not necessary to do this to answer the question. But at times the question requires some amount of detail to answer it. Some people do want to know what the Bible says on a certain matter, or why I believe something, and that is my source, therefore I use it. It is not the only source that I use, but a reliable one, I have found.

Most of the time when I do use a quote, I won't just put the quote up and leave it, but explain it with my answer. Most of the time my quotes are just a part of the overall answer.

There are 2 main reasons I do this: 1) I like to be thorough (Part of the school newspaper staff left in me from High School) and 2) it helps me to explain what I am talking about and have a place that people can see I'm coming from.

Answer 3

This is a good question. I personally do not do that unless someone asks a question that would require it. I am a thinking Christian, I am also a questioning Christian. Other Christains might judge me as not being real, because I still ask why or how or what does it mean, and I don't accept "because my pastor/church said so". I also don't accept scripture taken out of context.

I recently ( privately ) asked a self proclaimed Christian why they held the belief that they listed in their answer here. I did ask for specific scripture to back this belief up. I haven't had an answer yet. I am hoping it is because they are actually investigating the answer for themselves, rather than just believing some religious doctrine that their church preaches.

On the other hand, it is sometimes hard to explain beliefs, so people will refer to the manual. For instance, I believe that if I flip the light switch, I will get light. But if you asked my why I believe that or how it worked (I would probably just say I don't know) but I might research it and paste the answer for you so we could both know.

Answer 4

I come to this site with the sincere hope of being a help to someone. If I am to be a help I don't believe that my opinion alone is enough of an answer. I am a christian and therefore I base all that I believe in on what the bible has to say about it. If I give an answer, then I want to have a bible reference to back up what I am saying. There are many who whould say the bible says this or that and unless you are a true bible reader you may be led astray by believeing them when it may not be the truth. I am sorry if you feel there is too much of this but I sincerly feel that there is not enough of it. I don't know you but I want you to know that will all my heart I will pray for you. I wish you peace and happiness in your life. May God's blessings be upon you.

Answer 5

Everyone can say stuff about a religion, but the question is do they actually know what they are talking about. If you provide back-up by putting quotes then a Christian person reading it will accept a lot more than they will if it's just what the person is saying.

However it is commonly done in none-Christian threads, and I don't believe that they realize that most people don't believe in the bible so they don't care about the bible. It's like trying to convince an atheist to be Christian based on what is in the bible.

Answer 6

"I mean, if we all wanted to read the Bible....."

(et cetera, more BS, sorry I lost my respect for idiocy a long time ago...)

Nice, simplistic question.

Since you are clearly a callow and inexperienced youth (or an adult idiot) let me provide an easy answer.

People don't.

Read, that is.

I'm sure you're a genius with a 500 IQ. Sure, you read. Maybe.
Maybe like the rest of the trailer trash; you read via Google.

So tell me (without your computer) what the end paragraph of the Symposium is?

Yeah, I thought so. Get a brain, or better yet, get a will to read the Bible (or any other book) with the spirit of discovery.

I believe because I wish to, but I cannot, to my great misfortune, consider myself a Christian because as yet my belief and my life are in dissonance. I am, however, comforted by the fact that a man like C.S. Lewis found Christianity to be the best of all religions, offering salvation through reason and intuition, not mere pablum, like you offer.

I also bet you have "read" the Koran (via the MSM) and are willing to credit it more than the Bible.

In the old days I might have replied with the old adage "blow me", but I like to delude myself, from time to time, that we can all get along, and so instead, please just f**k off.

Cheers, Aidan Bothwell

PS: No we can't coexist. My kind will exterminate yours.

Answer 7

You do have a good point, however not every question has a simple answer. When I talk to people about a subject they know nothing about I like to give them some background on the subject first before making my point. That way they understand it better. Likewise if I talk about people you have never met I explain who they are or my relationship to them again for better understanding.
So to answer your question the simple thing is context. To answer the question with a simple yes or no would not suffice. WHY is it yes or no? Who is speaking? What verse is it? What happened before and after? Many times people take things out of context in order to distort their true or original meaning. People probably cut and past to show the entire context of the passage to clarify who is talking to whom and why.

Answer 8

True in some cases. In others people need to read it for themselves and they have asked a question that needs an answer from the book. After all, men can say anything, but if it is the truth from the word of God then it is God's words and not mans. That makes a difference.

Answer 9

Sometimes what is clear to one person may not fit with what the person has asked.
If the question is indeed sincere then it may be right.
If the question is hypothetical then possibly a simple answer is hard to type out. I use the Darwin line of questioning for example.
A lot of rambling with theories and hypothesis.
So being clear to one another is as one person said Ït is relative to the observer, or in this case the reader.
Hope I helped.

Answer 10

Why do you ask such questions? You know they can't think for themselves...I am referring to the Bible Thumpers. Many of them haven't even read the Bible let alone understand it. So they are compelled to copy and paste which makes them look even more stupid. The normal Christians think and very good to deal with, The Bible thumpers give those Christians a bad name.

Answer 11

Here is why: "A way seems right to a man, but it only brings Him death."

The point of that verse is that we may think we know the right way to go or the right way to handle a situation, but if it does not line up with the Bible, it is doomed to failure. Trust me, most of us know this from experience. We want to do things our own way and they always meet with failure until we do it the Lord's way.

That's why we quote scripture... to give an answer that comes from the source (God), not from ourselves.