(March 12, 2014 at 11:01 am)ronedee Wrote: Look Jake... I see your point! But, its not a good one in the grand picture. Its not a deal-breaker. At least for the believer. And even maybe the agnostic.
When "humans" are involved? EVERYTHING is suspect.
The bible is a guide book... for me anyway! The Holy Spirit has filled in the blanks.
As the bible says: "Faith is needed before true understanding is given."
So there is your paradox! You don't have Faith. So, true understanding escapes you, as well as all in that state of being.
If true understanding requires me to turn my brain off and accept demonstrably false things as truth, then you can keep it.
If you are arguing that the Bible may contain errors, but that doesn't invalidate anything in it, by what authority do you choose which parts are in error, and which aren't? And doesn't this give anyone license to pick and choose parts of the Bible that they want to apply? Isn't this a slippery slope?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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