RE: Ask, Seek, Knock
October 16, 2012 at 1:48 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2012 at 1:55 pm by Cyberman.)
(October 16, 2012 at 8:18 am)Tino Wrote: Drich, your church (according to the website) believes that the bible is the inerrant word of god. How do you explain errors in it?
The bible's really quite simple. Take any random verse. If it's written in plain language, contains some common-sense message, and/or speaks of something nice, it's a biblical truth relevant to our time. If it's nonsensical, flies in the face of reality, directly contradicts some other bible verse (and it will), and/or speaks of something sick and twisted that threatens to show the book and its characters in a damning light, it's a) a translation error, b) evidence of an evil atheist (sorry; Atheist) smear campaign, c) not meant to be taken literally and needs to be interpreted, d) a product of its time which needs to be viewed with the morality of that time - but still relevant to today, e) one of God's mysteries that you need to be a devout member of the chosen Élite even to have a remote chance of understanding, f) any combination of the above.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
