RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
February 10, 2014 at 9:32 pm
(February 10, 2014 at 6:20 pm)KUSA Wrote: I don't understand how someone can find things that are obviously wrong in the Bible and still think it is the word of god. How do they live like that?They accept that god exists and that he is the god they worship. They accept this without ever having verified it. I think that the ones that start to pick and choose what they accept from the Bible have taken a step towards chucking the whole mess, but some find it too difficult to let go. Still, it's better than the outrageous logical contortions and hilarious rationalizations that some of them cling to.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
