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1 | What are our options? | NT general Archive 1 | Jim Dunne | 9704 | ||
I suppose you could add legend to that list. And I'm not for a minute suggesting that God's creation of the world is anything other than fact. It is just that - fact. All I'm trying to say is that it (the creation recounting in Genesis) COULD be a summary of verbal recountings passed down over generations until the point where there was a written language to record them in. And I don't see that it effects the veracity of the Bible at all. In a like vein, there are discussions amongst scholars on whether Jesus actually delivered the Sermon on the Mount as a sermon at all. Rather, some believe that it is a compilation of many things he said on multiple occassions, combined and summarized by the narrator for the convenience and education of his readers. Does that mean it's not factual? Not at all, I think. Look at it this way. If you jump into your car in California, and drive to New York City by yourself, there are 3 things that are self-evident: 1. You were in California. 2. You are in New York City. 3. You drove. If 100 years from now, someone were to publish the "definitive" route that you took, would they be correct in every detail? Most likely not - you were alone, so no one really knows what route you took. Does that change any of the facts listed above, as long as they have you starting in California and driving to New York City? Nope. I hope this helps clarify what I was trying to say. Yours in Christ, Jim D. |
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2 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 9720 | ||
Hello, Jim D: Yes, it does. Some unimportant historical details in the Bible are false, but the important stuff is true. The false stuff is unimportant, so don't sweat it. How do you know the important historical events are true? |
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3 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | prayon | 9748 | ||
Lionstrong,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Maybe you are right and part of the bible is false. And maybe they got it wrong about Jesus too. Maybe he only healed some of the people he is said to of healed. Maybe he didn't really walk on water. Maybe he is really buried somewhere and didn't rise from the dead. Maybe the men who rewrote the bible added a bunch of stuff that didn't really happen to make it sound more interesting. Lionstrong, it is called FAITH! "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not see" (Heb 11:1). Faith is being able to to know that the bible is the INFALLIBLE (exempt from uncertainity, fallacy or error) word of God. If someone does not believe it is the unfallible word of God, I question if that person should be answering posts on a forum that is based on the bible being without any error. |
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4 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 9752 | ||
Keep telling it like it is, prayon! It's refreshing to read a post by a true believer whose head is not muddled with metaphysical musings and philosophical pipe dreams. --Hank | ||||||