(December 23, 2014 at 9:25 pm)JesusChristLover Wrote: The Bible is the Grand Charter of God. To undermine, discredit and reject the Bible is to undermine, discredit and reject God.I don't really have a problem with that, you know?
Quote:The popular assertion of present-day shallow thinkers that their Christianity rejects the Old Testament but accepts the New is, to say the least, unrealistic, for the New Testament is based on the Old. Both are inseparably united and of necessity when one is rejected the other also must be refused. What the seed is to the plant so is the Old to the New. How can the plant be received and the seed which produced it rejected?Oh those false Christians ™...
Quote:The Bible claims to be the Word of God and by staking this claim the Bible simply but plainly declares its divine authority, complete infallibility and absolute sufficiency.You know that a claim does not imply that things are as claimed, right?
Quote:The Bible's authority is not derived from reason. The Bible does not appeal to reason and demand obedience because our reason sanctions its teachings. Its authority is not rational in that sense, although we believe the Bible to be reasonable ultimately, because it is the Word of Him Who is the source of all reason. Our reason needs to be approved by the Bible and not the Bible by our reason.But if it claims for something that is wrong, then reason is our only ally in discerning the truth of the matter.
Quote:The Bible's authority is not derived from the emotions. The Bible does not appeal to our feelings and demand obedience because our feelings acquiesce in its teachings. Its authority is not emotional, and our feelings need to be approved by the Bible, and not the Bible by our feelings.The bible, in a few parts, does appeal to emotion...
Quote:The greatest fact of all time is the Bible. How a book which has been so universally attacked could survive and attain to such a place of eminence is a miracle eloquently testifying to its supernatural origin.
The unity of the Bible is one of the greatest evidences of its supernatural origin.
The Bible is unique. Hundreds of years and in some cases over a thousand years before certain events took place, the Bible made precise predictions concerning those events. No other sacred book ventured to make such predictions. The Bible is the only book which dared to stake its claim to divinity on the accuracy of its prophecies!
Errr, nope.
There are other holy books, other mythologies, other prophecies that have been "accurate". You don't buy those...probably because you haven't been taught about them... why should anyone buy yours?
