RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
December 10, 2018 at 9:50 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2018 at 9:52 pm by GrandizerII.)
(December 10, 2018 at 9:24 pm)tackattack Wrote: There is no contradiction. If you see one please be specific.
The contradiction I'm referring to is Drich stating that Lot was corrupt while the NT states he was a righteous man. I do think that there are several passages in Genesis that do not make Lot look really good, but some much later Christian thought apparently begs to differ and even puts Lot in the same category as Noah in terms of righteousness.
As for those OT verses you quoted, yes, even the Old Testament seems to suggest that all men have sinned in some way. This does not mean, however, that they all weren't righteous. Noah was deemed a righteous man in the eyes of the Lord (that is why he and his family were spared the fate of drowning in the Flood), so were Enoch, Job, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, and so on. So while the OT attests to men falling short of God's glory and such, it also makes clear that some men were better than others and thereby deemed righteous.
Quote:If you'd like it in the same book then:
Genesis 6:12
God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Yeah, but this one doesn't even support your point as much as you think it does. This verse is clearly meant to justify God's decision to flood the earth as a means of punishment for their wickedness. It isn't saying that all men after the flood were corrupt, and in fact, just a few verses before that, we read that Noah was indeed considered a righteous man by God "blameless among the people of his time", so he definitely was not corrupt.
