Sure a lot of people have questions that they can't answer; and some are fobbed off by people telling them they don't have to think about it.... but that's not biblical Xtianity: We're implored to question and test... not ignore questions and take it as red.
Children can get it, it's not hard to understand. But it does have depth that requires understanding if you get into it further.
What I'm trying to say is that a person can be saved without a depth of understanding. They understand how and why they are saved.
What you're saying, I think, is that you questioned that and came to a point where you disagreed. Thinking about the extra information you were unconvinced of the validity of it.
Take the literal interpretation of the Genesis creation story: I have never ever thought that this was a literal account of the beginnings of the cosmos, yet some are adamant about it, despite what I see as clearly overwhelming evidence in the bible to the contrary. Are those people interpreting it incorrectly unsaved: No. They're just interpreting it incorrectly.
If I thought I had to compromise either my beliefs or my understanding of reality as described by science then I'd be very torn. Something would have to give, and I fully understand the rejection of literalism... as that's exactly my position.
Children can get it, it's not hard to understand. But it does have depth that requires understanding if you get into it further.
What I'm trying to say is that a person can be saved without a depth of understanding. They understand how and why they are saved.
What you're saying, I think, is that you questioned that and came to a point where you disagreed. Thinking about the extra information you were unconvinced of the validity of it.
Take the literal interpretation of the Genesis creation story: I have never ever thought that this was a literal account of the beginnings of the cosmos, yet some are adamant about it, despite what I see as clearly overwhelming evidence in the bible to the contrary. Are those people interpreting it incorrectly unsaved: No. They're just interpreting it incorrectly.
If I thought I had to compromise either my beliefs or my understanding of reality as described by science then I'd be very torn. Something would have to give, and I fully understand the rejection of literalism... as that's exactly my position.
