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1 | If God gave us brains, why wouldn't he w | Mark 16:16 | LUKEtheAGNOSTIC | 39885 | ||
If God gave us brains, why wouldn't he want us to use them? Let me explain... assume that He really did give us our brains and the power to think. Why would He punish us ("be condemned") for not following the crowd (Christians) and thinking for ourselves? A thinking person does not blindly believe, lets take me for example (Yes I'm full of myself). I have heard the Gospel and I am as of yet a disbeliever, because there is so much do doubt about every religion that I've heard about, and NO proof? Anyone who know's the answer PLEASE tell me, rjohnson@mailbird.net . |
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2 | If God gave us brains, why wouldn't he w | Mark 16:16 | Jesusman | 39909 | ||
Hello, Yes, God did give us brains and the capacity to think and to reason. We do not have rely upon blind faith alone in order to believe in God. For example, the Apostle John teaches that we are to test and examine as well as believe. The Apostle Paul praised the Bereans for putting his teachings to the test. So, with that, we have the right to test God and to test the Bible. Now, I know what you are possibly thinking. How can we test an invisible God? Well, we test what is not invisible. The Bible claims to be from God. As a result, we can put the Bible to the test. While we cannot test the invisible and spiritual aspects, we can test the scientific and historical areas. If we can prove the Bible correct historically and scientifically, then it is reasonable to assume that it is correct in the areas of the Spiritual and Divine. Do you see my point? Now for some facts about the Bible. First, the Bible has yet to be proven wrong historically. All of the events that have been tested and places that have been searched for have been found. For example: Dr Luke says that during the time when Jesus was to be born, Ceaser Augustus ordered that a census be taken. As a result, Mary and Joseph had to go to the town of their ancestors, namely Bethlahem. In recent years, Roman manuscripts have been found stating that a census was ordered by Augustus. This corroborates Dr. Luke's account in his Gospel. Another event concerns the various geneologies throughout the Bible. According to 18th century analysis, the creation took place around 4000 BC. That is calculated through the geneologies. However, Science has determined that the City of Jerico is possibly the oldest civilization dating to around 10,000 BC. There is an obvious contradiction. So, recently the geneologies were reexamined. A result of this examination showed that the geneologies, if taken literal, are not entirely feasible. Many of the people in early Genesis would've been alive during the Flood, and after it as well. A similar example, Noah's father missed living in the Seth's (Adam's Son) lifetime by only two years. Also, Abraham missed living in Noah's time by only two years. Other places and events involving the geneologies don't make sense. One event involving Moses' Grandfather shows that he had four sons and that each son became a nation numbering into the ten-thousands all before the Exodus. That would've been one busy family. These are only a few examples. Anyways, the result was a different interpretation concering the Geneologies. The modern view is known as the "Open-geneology" view. According to "Open Geneology", the people listed, especially in early Genesis and the Pentateuch, are the more famous members of the line. Also, the term "begat" that is used in these geneologies, which is often identified as meaning "became the Father of", can also mean "Became the Ancestor of". Thus showing that there are significant gaps within the Biblical geneologies. Applying these gaps changes the date of creation to take into account of the City of Jerico's dating, and thus places it to be prior to 10,000 BC. Another event concerns the process by which the Bible was transmitted before the invention of the printing press. Before the printing press, scribes would copy the Bible by hand. A person would read the old manuscript, and a group of scribes would copy it to a new peice of parchment. This has often been viewed as an inaccurate way of preserving the text, and that many errors would crop up. In the early 1920's, The Dead Sea Scrolls were found. These Scrolls date back to the 1st century BC and prior. They are the oldest collection of Manuscripts of the Old Testament to date. Along with the Dead Sea Scrolls is a complete copy of the Book of Isaiah. Prior to the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest copy of Isaiah was dated to around 1000 AD. The one from the Dead Sea scrolls predates that by a 1000 years. It was believed that there would be numerous errors between them and the book of Isaiah would be unreliable. When placed side by side, there were only 18 errors found within the entire book containing 66 chapters. Of these errors, approx. 13 of them were errors in word order which doesn't amount to a hill of beans in translation. The rest of them was variations of word usage and punctuation, but the basic meaning was preserved. In all of the "errors" not one doctrine was effected and the basic meaning of the texts were clear. This proved that painstaking care was taken when copying a text. So, these are a few. Feel free to examine more. Jesusman For some resources, here are a few. 1) The Case for Christ. By Lee Strobel 2) The Case for Faith. By Lee Strobel 3) The Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics. By: Norman Geisler 4) Evidence that Demands a verdict. By: Josh McDowell 5) Resurrection. By: Hank Henegraff. |
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