why is this only possible if your a 'true' christian.
i think your making excuses for your imaginary god again.
2007-10-07 00:35:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Zin Rae
is it nice to feel superior.
2007-10-07 00:46:36 · update #1
They don't seem to understand there are contradictions, because they re frame those contradictions as tests of their faith.
They are just what you said. Contradictions.
2007-10-07 00:46:14 · answer #1 · answered by Twilight 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
The Bible says that there is a veil over the minds of the unbelievers that only gets to be removed when a person stops seeking to put his slant, his righteousness, his mind on things and simply accepts the mind of Christ, the simple eye of the childlike Christian that doesn't have a personal agenda other than doing God's will.
As far as contradictions, scoffers like to find them and stand pointing at them without trying at all to see if perhaps what seems like a contradiction isn't but instead adds to the whole picture of the account.
So far, I have seen no contradictions. I have seen one or two cases where a number has over the millennia been changed so that it disagrees with another place.
Most of the time the number of codex and various manuscripts available help decipher these 'typhographical errors.' At other times, the number is actually not even important to the account.
2007-10-07 01:08:01 · answer #2 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Let's suppose a new movie has come out, and it's not in a genre you usually like. However, a close friend, or maybe a spouse, talks you into going and seeing it. Tell me, if you spend the entire movie looking for things you don't like, are you going to enjoy it?
Would you take the second semester of biology before you've taken the first?
Diving into the Bible with absolutely NO intention of understanding what you're reading is much like taking the second semester of biology before you've taken the first. You won't get the whole picture, you won't understand what you're reading, and you'll see "contradictions" and whatever else. However, if you go to the Bible with a humble heart, and you're seeking to understand it, you WILL.
I found hundreds of contradictions when I was an atheist. Now, I've gone back over those same "contradictions" and I understand them. They're not contradictions at all. I just didn't understand what I was reading, nor did I understand the historical/cultural context, nor did I understand the spiritual context.
I know it sounds like an excuse when a person says you need the Holy Spirit to understand what you're reading. But for us, the Holy Spirit is like our first semester of biology before we take the second.
2007-10-07 00:51:04 · answer #3 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
It's only possible if you read the Bible in light of the fact that there is a God.
To read the Bible with a small, finite, closed mind is so limiting. To consider your intellect the highest power in the universe may make you feel superior...but it really makes you look silly.
2007-10-07 01:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by Misty 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Understanding is the key. If we don't understand who wrote it, why it was written, where it was written and under what circumstances, when it was written, and how it came to be written, we won't get anything out of it. The Bible is a marvelous work of art and will never be duplicated. Google Ivan Panin and find out what he learned from this masterpiece.
2007-10-07 00:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by michael m 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Edit:
I am very sorry if my prior answer hurt your feelings, the fact that I owe an apology only proves I am NOT superior to anyone. Alas I am but a lowly mortal.
But, I will continue to feel sorry for you because you have the need to ridicule others for their beliefs. For your edification, I am not a Christian.
Blessings!
2007-10-07 00:45:27 · answer #6 · answered by DrMichael 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
My God is not imaginary to me. He may be to you.
I think YOU'RE really unafraid to show YOUR anger towards Christians.
Why all the anger?
"YOU'RE making excuses"? No way! I am definitely not.
2007-10-07 01:23:11 · answer #7 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm not a christian at all and I understand most, if not all, OT-OT apparent contradictions.
The NT is a contradiction in and of itself, however.
2007-10-07 00:45:10 · answer #8 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
if bible were so brilliant, why would it come with doubts in the first place ,,, wouldn't the imaginary god make it perfect in the first place so that nobody could question it ??
2007-10-07 00:40:34 · answer #9 · answered by mega_mover 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Yes---the contradictions are so blatant-those who attempt to excuse them must tie up their logic in knots!!!
2007-10-07 00:47:45 · answer #10 · answered by huffyb 6 · 3⤊ 5⤋