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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, We live in a time where the search for truth is considered most noble, but to have dared to suggest you've found it is the ultimate heresy. I refer to your search as "youthful questioning" because it is quite normal. However, viewed from after the fact, once one has made up their mind with certainty regarding where that truth is located, can you not see how a person would look back at the former wanderings as a more youthful point in their life? I do not look to condemn you for your search, however, understand that the point of the search is to eventually make a stand. Do not be one forever searching and never finding. Also, keep in mind that when you joined these forums the terms of use laid out "sola scriptura" as something you agreed to. This means that every person on these forums has agreed that scripture and scripture alone is the final arbiter of what is true. A person might not personally embrace that, but these forums are not the place to debate it. Let us respect our gracious host in that. Let me tell you why I think my view is not only opposed to your three theories, but fundamentally so. The essence of your anterior and simultaneous views, is that morality is not dependant on God or who He is. It is in someway seperate from Him. I say that morality flows directly from who God is. The essence of your posterior view is that God actually decides between various options and picks one to be right or wrong. What I'm saying is that it flows unavoidably from who God is and could not have been different. Hence, each of your views is saying something radically different from what I'm saying. Not because they are anterior, posterior, or simultaneous, but because of WHY each view is suggesting they are. Finally let me tell you that anybody who is a true Christian is so because God has so pursuaded them. 2 Cor 4:1-6 tells us quite plainly that any who has seen the truth has done so because God has opened their eyes to it. This is something that I would urge any person to seek from God in earnest prayer. Also, if you can remember to, please put future responses to threads marked as a "note." This leaves the question section open for true questions. Any time you respond to me I'm e-mailed about that response so no need to worry over me missing it. In Christ, Beja |