how come when i put a verse for all to see christians deny it?

Question

why do you (christians) deny what is written in your book?

for the record, for those that will say, "you took it out of context"

i simply ask that you put verses that are displayed INTO context.

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

God REMEBERED.

in order to remember something u must first forget it. therefore god can forget.

or Isaiah 45:7
7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

god creates evil.

Answer 1

Many Christians are just plain ignorant of their bible.

Answer 2

Nice try! You (anti-christian) must have put a lot of thought into that one.

Perhaps you should look up the word remember. It doesn't always mean to have forgotten and then think of again!

According to good ol' Webster is can mean:

transitive verb
1: to bring to mind or think of again
2archaic a: bethink 1b b: remind
3 a: to keep in mind for attention or consideration b: reward
4: to retain in the memory

Check out #'s 3 and 4

If you put someone you love in your Will, it is a way of "remembering" them. But that doesn't mean that you ever really forgot them right?

Well, I hope that God will bless you and that you will be able to feel his presence in your life! Good luck!

Answer 3

Okay, to remember doesn't have to follow forgetting. That's a logical fallacy. And, about God creating evil: I get the feeling that most people think of God as an idea or a philosophy, rather than an actual personality. If He created evil, then who are we to say He shouldn't have?

Answer 4

Yes Chip, I know what you are saying, but you are not interpreting that scripture to mean what it says...and so we are not ignoring it, I promise!
Here is the CEV version so you can see it is an adjective used--
1God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down.
-God did NOT forget about Noah--That is why it says He remembered Noah--so it is not as if He forgot, because He did not forget. Doesn't that make sense?

Answer 5

Maybe because your interpretation of the verse is incorrect.

Many read, but all do not understand.


We can not take modern English definitions to translate what was written in Arabic and Greek. The Bible also says in Genesis after Adam and Eve sinned, that God said Adam where are you, did that mean that God couldnt see Adam or that God who knows everything, did not know where Adam was at. Not at all. God has an intimate relationship with Adam and when sinned entered the earth, God missed the closeness of his relationship with Adam and basically said "Adam, where is the closeness that we used to have". That's what he meant when he said Adam where are you?

When the Bible says God remembered Noah, it means that God reminded himself of what was going on with Adam and his family on the ark.

The mean of words have chhanged overtime. Remember when cool was good and now everyone wants to be hot. Remember when dog, was your pet, now your buddy is your dog.

Don't let a few words take away the beauty of the Bible. Continue to read and study and ask guidance of your pastor or Sunday school teacher to explain those statements that you do not understand.

Answer 6

See, you are a perfect example of how today's individuals try to interpret scripture through their own understanding of the tranlated word. The word used for "remember" comes from anciet Hebrew through Greek as to "hold in present sense" In other words not "remember" as you indicate means to have forgotten but to "remember" as to hold onto in the present sense. Yet again the Word of God withstands the secular challenge.

Answer 7

Alright. I'm not a christian, and normally dont defend them, but that makes no sense. It is saying here that god DIDNT forget them. That he didnt abandon them to die. Yeesh

It's all a metaphor for the comet that skimmed the earth 9600 years ago, and casued the axial shift, mass extinctions, and tidal waves (The flood)

Answer 8

To answer the question it is necessary to know what you are talking about.

I think that what you are asking is why do we say that the bible does not say that when shown a verse.
The answer to that is that when shown a verse that is interpreted incorrectly we say so.

Answer 9

you cant take one verse, post and then try to say it means something when it clearly doesnt. It'd be like opening the page in a newpaper picking out a sentence and then trying to tell the story behind it. When you read your whole bible it all goes together and makes sense.

Answer 10

More than likely you are twisting the scriptures around to your thoughts and not God's thoughts.
2Peter3:16 reads Speaking about these things as he does also in all his leters. In them, however, are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unsteady are twisting, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Answer 11

I get the "you took it out of context" answer all the time as well. Nothing you can do about it. I read everything in black and white, and christians seem to fell their bible is one big grey area. That, and since I don't believe, and don't have a "PhD. in Divinity" I must not be capable of interpreting their precious book by myself.