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1 | how to convince one of Bible's truth | 1 Timothy | reilly1041 | 85134 | ||
I need help and I am sure you guys can provide it! I am in a debate with a cousin about the Bible and how one reads it. Here are his words: "The question is whether every line of all books in the Bible must be taken as the truth or whether one is permitted to take into account lots of other factors in making that decision. Afterall, who wrote down Genesis? Even after it was written down and passed along, who decided it was true? There is a Gospel of Thomas that can be dated back to within about 100 years of The Gospel of John (some argue that it's far earlier), yet it is not included in the Bible. A group of church leaders decided centuries ago that it shouldn't be. Is it appropriate to ask if they were correct? To restate the point, I don't believe that all of the hundreds, maybe even thousands of people who were directly or indirectly responsible for passing along, writing, and choosing the books of the Bible were being directed by God in such a way that they were infallibly writing the words of God just as if God was writing them himself. Instead, I think the Bible was created by inspired believers who did the best they could. It doesn't mean that their opinions regarding the stories, their meaning, and their own experiences didn't have an effect in what they did." For example, he believes that John's gospel has more of John's theology in it, in addition the history he was describing. He thus believes one should investigate what was John's theology and what was Jesus, to ensure that he is following Jesus, and not following Jesus' followers. My opinion is that we should accept the Bible as God's inspired Word. If that level of investigation is required for each verse, no layperson could possibly read the Bible, and I can't believe that the Bible is only intended for professional theologians. Now, I know that this forum gets pretty deep sometimes, but don't you all agree that level of knowledge is not required to read the Bible, but that a layperson (meaning not one steeped in theology) can get huge benefit out of it? I'm sure I can never convince him of this, but any advice for our debate? Thanks, reilly |
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2 | how to convince one of Bible's truth | 1 Timothy | DAIRYLEADER5 | 85135 | ||
1 tim 1;4, cpt 6;4, 2 tim 2;23, and titus, cpt 3;9, my advice to you is this ,dont try to debate with him, youll lose. the bible tells us that it is the Holy spirit that draws men to repentance, leave it to him, these books and verses that i gave you will prove that what i say is the truth. i know that you care for him as i do for a lot of people that i know but we are not supossed to strive with an unbelever the bible tells that in the end days men will go after what they say is science, 1 tim, 6;20. the king james version calls it science, others call it knowledge. the bible says that the scriptures were given to men by the inspiration of God and we believe that the books that are in it are what God wanted us to read. so my opinion dont debate any more , just pray that God will deal with him in his own way. | ||||||