Why do so many pick and choose what they want to accept and reject? For if the Bible tells us you are to be holy for I am holy, they is it not reasonable to be holy? And if that is impossible why did Jesus tell persons He exorcised not to sin no more?
2006-12-06 08:51:01 · 11 answers · asked by 1saintofGod 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Holiness can only be achieved by the power of the Holy Spirit being within a person.
That is why Jesus also said that we have to be born again. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the only command He gave them, they died: spiritually.
Since then, no person born of man has the ability to achieve holiness on their own.
Jesus lived the perfect life and thereby gained perfect holiness ...which He gives to those who seek Him.
Jesus is our perfection:
Heb 2:10-11
11 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
(from New International Version)
Heb 10:10
10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
(from New International Version)
2006-12-06 09:22:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible is God breathed. I agree with that.
But, the rest of your paragraph doesnt appear to be directly related with that.
Though the bible tells us to be holy...it also tells us that we will fail. What do you think of the Apostle Paul in Romans 7 when he talks about doing what he doesnt want to do and not doing what he wants to do?
Jesus told the person to "go and sin no more" becuase the person was in sin at that moment.
2006-12-06 16:56:50 · answer #2 · answered by aarondarling 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is just a collection of stories, some based on real events, some not. According to the Bible, the world was created about 2000 years after the Sumerians learned how to make beer.
2006-12-07 14:49:21 · answer #3 · answered by Jay F 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know after all the bible is about other people dreams.
If people are holy the bible is the manual.
2006-12-06 16:56:36 · answer #4 · answered by Las Malvinas son Argentinas 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not impossible... I would ask you... if Jesus did it.... is it impossible... And, not all are the few half christians who just read and do what they want to... Being a true Christian is doing what Jesus would want you to do. however sum christians yet sin... still, we can be forgiven and perfected once again by the blood of Jesus Christ..
2006-12-06 16:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by OJ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is so self contradictory that it really takes a lot of twisting to accept the whole thing. It's much easier to just pick the parts you like and gloss over the rest.
2006-12-06 16:52:57 · answer #6 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Here are a few contradictions:
No man hath seen God at any time -John 1:18
God, whom no man has seen, nor can see 1 Timothy 6:16
And God said "Thou canst see my face, for there shall no man see me, and live!" -Exodus 33:20
--and the contradictions...
And the Lord spoke to Moses Face to Face - Exodus 33:11
And they saw the God of Isreal - Exodus 24:10
And Jacob said 'I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved." - Genesis 32:30
And Jesus said "For with God all things are possible"-Mark 10:27
Contradiction
and the Lord was with Judah, and he drove out the inhabitants of the Mountain, but COULD NOT drive out the people of the valley, because they had chariots of Iron. -Judges 1:19
And here is who you should worship if you are a christian listen to this: MEICHISEDER (high priest of Salem)
from Hebrews 7:3
"He was without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life..."
Sounds like a God to me.
I have thousands more. I'll save them for next time :)
It is not the word of God, and if it is, God is imperfect and a pervert. (the unpunished rape of a sister from her brother, the incest between father and daughters, the whores and concubines who are slept with publicly and openly, I could go on...)
2006-12-06 17:20:51 · answer #7 · answered by TRuth Hurts 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You really don't know much about the Bible, do you? Most of the so-called contradictions can be easily explained. There are a few that cannot, as yet.
2006-12-06 17:03:37 · answer #8 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the whole bible is not a of god's word. the people and writer of the bible put false words in it so they can get wat they want. you should not sin any more because you are diappoiting god. if you don't glorify god then that is the greatest sin anyman can attempted.
2006-12-06 16:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it;s easier to pick the pit out of the grape than it is to swallow the whole thing. People choose what fits them best. right or wrong.
2006-12-06 16:54:57 · answer #10 · answered by dadknows 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋