RE: Evolution, the Bible, and the 3.5 Million Dollar Violin - my article
July 24, 2012 at 12:29 pm
I honestly don't see how this became about burden of proof. The article is addressing a positive claim made by atheists that biblical contradictions with itself and with observable reality disprove the bible. I'm not sure but I think Jeff realizes that the article isn't intended to provide evidence for the existence of God.
I feel the article is making a false analogy. Dressing up in average clothes and playing in a metro station would be more like God spreading his message through average people (such as the bible was written) BUT you would still expect the message to be top-notch and without contradiction in the same way Bell played incredible music very well. This way of spreading the message would ensure people would accept God and his message for the sake of the message, rather than out of pure fear of God.
A proper analogy to what we see in the bible would be Bell dressing up in average clothes, such that most people wouldn't recognize him, playing a mediocre song, making lots of mistakes, all the while claiming to be Joshua Bell.
You see, in the story Bell's message is his song. In Christianity God's message is the bible.
Bell plays the songs perfectly as always; however, the argument is used to show why God's message is imperfect.
False analogy.
I feel the article is making a false analogy. Dressing up in average clothes and playing in a metro station would be more like God spreading his message through average people (such as the bible was written) BUT you would still expect the message to be top-notch and without contradiction in the same way Bell played incredible music very well. This way of spreading the message would ensure people would accept God and his message for the sake of the message, rather than out of pure fear of God.
A proper analogy to what we see in the bible would be Bell dressing up in average clothes, such that most people wouldn't recognize him, playing a mediocre song, making lots of mistakes, all the while claiming to be Joshua Bell.
You see, in the story Bell's message is his song. In Christianity God's message is the bible.
Bell plays the songs perfectly as always; however, the argument is used to show why God's message is imperfect.
False analogy.
