(October 21, 2015 at 11:26 pm)Thena323 Wrote:(October 21, 2015 at 10:28 pm)Godschild Wrote: I don't expect any atheist to accept the entire Bible, what I would expect is an honest look at what Christians say. I wanted to avoid this phrase but I guess in the end it's not possible, "cherry picking," is no way to try and understand the Bible, I've tried to avoid "cherry picking" scientific books and haven't used any such practice here. Most all the teachings in scripture cover more than one book and many cover both the OT and NT. Most atheist just get mad when accused of "cherry picking" instead of trying to understand the whole of the teaching through many verses and books. Would you use this practice in school studies, of coarse not, it's no way to learn.It's difficult to not "cherry pick" when something is presented as the inerrant and/or infallible Word of God. Can you really fault atheists for drawing attention to Biblical inaccuracies and inconsistencies when you consider the claim of it being The Absolute Truth? Even maintaining that the Bible is simply God's infallible word, written by fallible men presents a major plot hole, doesn't it?
GC
Actually no, there isn't a plot hole, man penned what God inspired them to write. I asked if you would "cherry pick" school studies, I noticed you did not happen to mention that, must have been an over site. When someone "cherry picks" any works they can find supposed inconsistencies and or inaccuracies. Like I said when a supposed inaccuracies or contradiction is found does one stop and accept it or does one dig deeper and find the truth, I did when I found what seemed wrong in the Bible and always found the truth, I was wrong and the Bible was right, I'm still doing that to this day with the Bible. When anyone has stated they have found an inaccuracy or contradiction in the Bible and it came to my attention I always showed how it wasn't true and gave an explanation and sometimes other verses to support the verses as truth. When scientist run into an apparent contradiction in their work, do they stop and say well seems we are wrong this contradiction says so, no they go on looking to find the truth what ever it may be. So, again I say "cherry picking" is a cheap and dishonest way to discredit any works, period.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
