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NASB | Genesis 6:6 The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:6 The LORD regretted that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was [deeply] grieved in His heart. |
Bible Question:
Dear Beja, Thanks for your post. I don't think questioning of the Bible is a "youthful questioning" in me. Leaving apart that this questioning have been more and more intense with time, I would like to say that is also a matter of putting things in context. I'm trying to seek Truth and in the process I find that I have to question everything and use reason. It is during this process that, to see thing in perspective, I should look to the Bible from the same point of view that I look to Koran, Tao-Te-Ching, Veda and the other holy books of the many religions of the world. I think it is very easy to understand why a Christian don't accept all this books and only accepts the Bible, while all the followers of the other religions do the same in respect to their holy books. Most of this people thinks they are right while the others are wrong. "How lucky I am for having been born in the true religion", many of them probably think. This is why I put first reason and logical consistence in order to avoid being lost in the labyrinth of the unknown. And to answer directly your question, yes I disagree with some things said in the Bible. There are many factual mistakes and contradictions, mostly in the OT but also in the NT. And many of them are just inescapable. I can point you some of them if you wish. About my three options I don't understand how can you be "fundamentally opposed to either of your options" as they cover the hole spectrum of possibilities (anterior, posterior, simultaneous). About government thing I just point that we no longer stone to death young people for disobeying their parents or for other reasons. Which is obviously a progress in our understanding of justice from the bronze age, the time when the OT was written. |
Bible Answer: Dear Bruno, There is an unwritten convention on the forum to use the "Question" check box by used only when addressing the forum as a whole in starting a new thread. Follow-up questions and comments addressed to individuals should use the "Note" check box. The individual you're addressing will receive notification. This practice keeps the home page clear -- preventing a single thread from dominating. In Him, Doc PS Just a few notes for clarity: I am Jewish convert to Christianity. We do not believe in lucky or meritorious behavior for the blessings we receive -- and all people receive by God's hand. We believe in something called divine grace. The use of the intellectual tools that God has given us is remarkable. However, those tools must operate on things that are know with certainty. An uniformed intellect, although employing sound reason, still yields only that which is specious. Perhaps you should start a thread with that which you see as "factual mistakes and contradictions" (sic). You might start a new thread for each one to let us deal with it. This is, of course, in lieu of your obtaining a further education in such things. There is nothing new under the sun. Men have been doing that for some twenty centuries now. Consequently, what you present have been offered up by various people many times. Concerning the false dichotomy I mentioned on your "hole spectrum of possibilities" (sic): There is a field of thinking that is called causality. That area of reasoning dates to Aristotle, sometime in the 4th century BC. Unfortunately, our contemporaries are rarely given classic educations any more. Consequently, we don't think outside the box. Finally, every one of us have presuppositions. The idea is to reason through those presuppositions, to hold them up to the light and validate them both privately and publicly. What we want is truth. In your last statement there at least four presuppositions. I simply point that out because the fish is often the last to see the water. There are answers to your questions. It is difficult for some of us because those questions have been settled for us so long ago. (Sorry for our impatience.) Nonetheless, if you are interested in going past your own agenda, God's self-revelation can do just that. However, you will only be able to go just so far with a forum like this. Sometimes you just have to knuckle down and take some classes or read some books. Something that inhibits reasoned responses is a that the topic starts to cover so much ground. It is as though a person asks for a description of a car; but as each component is mentioned, they ask for a description of that component. A simple question about a product, begins to cover the entire discipline of engineering that produced it. |