More Questions for Christians

[Drich]

1. If the holy spirit inspired which books of the bible were to be canonized, why were hebrews, james and 3 john left out the first few times? Did the spirit change it's mind?

Because the proveanaunce was not avaiable the first few times, even if the books were to eventually be apart of canonical scripture.

2. Do you believe jonah really was able to live in a fish and survive?

yes

3. Is the entire bible the truth?

It is truth where it it is intended to be taken as truth. Proverbs are wise saying, psalms are to be taken as song and hyms, Books of prophesy are to be taken as prophesy, Books of the Law are to be taken as books of the Law ect...

4. If the entire bible is the truth, how do we not accept slavery anymore?

What are you talking about? We do! It's just been re packaged and sold to western soceity as 'outsourcing.'

How do we say homosexuality is ok?

Self righteousness. When Righteousness comes from self then 'Self' can justify anything. That it is why it is so important to say their is no God. Without God the source of righteousness defaults to self.

5. Was the flood through out the entire earth? If so, do we have fossil evidence of a massive killing of everything?

Maybe look up how fossils are formed/How long it takes. Then do some math starting with the flood and working your way back to present.

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Here is another question.

Just as nobody called Jesus, “Jesus,” (see “Jesus or Yehoshua: What’s In a Name?” post of April 5, 2010), Jesus did not call the Apostles, “Simon” or “John.” Rather, he referred to them by their Hebrew or Aramaic names, as follows:

Simon was Shimon. James was Yakov (that is, Jacob). John was Yochanan. Bartholomew was Bar-Talmai (son of Ptolemy). Matthew was Mattityahu, meaning, “gift from God.” Thomas was Tau’ma, an Aramaic name. Thaddaeus was a variant of Theudas, which was a Grecian version of Judas or Yehuda.

Andrew and Philip are interesting because those are clearly Greek names—Andreas and Filippos; there are no Hebrew equivalents. Thus, we may surmise that Andrew and Philip were either Grecian-Jews or Grecian-Gentiles. In all probability, we may discount the theory that they were Gentiles: Jesus was a Jew who saw his mission as teaching and healing his fellow Jews. “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 15:24. It would be hard to imagine preaching to Jews while having Gentile Apostles.

Judas Iscariot was Yehuda. I will discuss Judas in the next post, along with the “sons of thunder” appellation for John and James.
http://www.jesusandtheprofessor.com/2011...stles.html

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Your reading a translation, not the orginal bible, that means the names are also translated.