(April 1, 2016 at 4:33 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:(April 1, 2016 at 1:39 pm)SteveII Wrote: So...Christian denominations err in using the Bible to develop systematic theology. It is those ideas that should be scoffed at? Again, a lot of time, a lot of people, and a lot of content. Perhaps you are missing something.
Yes, I think they err in buying into the bible as an unerring source of info about God when the experience which many cite as sealing the deal for them makes no mention of the bible. That move is completely unwarranted. Faith seems to come from the experience but they immediately sell that out for belief in explicit words.
If a person responds to the message that God loves them and wants a relationship (perhaps from a friend or sermon), they are going to need to find out how that works. Christians have used the OT and NT since the first century to answer those question. Regardless of how much people here believe in alternative theories of how the OT and NT came to be, they are just theories. Christians believe them to be largely true. This is nether illogical nor unreasonable.
Perhaps when you encounter a part of the Bible that you don't understand or think is difficult to rationalize, you do not come here to get an explanation. Go to a well established commentary or website that explains the context. Otherwise you are just heaping bias on the whole question and you really are not learning anything.
Like I keep saying over and over. No objection that comes up here is new and has not been answered be at least 100 books and a thousand articles stretching back millennium. Sometimes you get the impression reading here that people have these "ah-ha" points and then feel good about themselves as the affirmations from other atheists come pouring in.
