The problem that you will run into when questioning the Bible is that those who believe most deeply in it are working with the assumption that it is not only divinely inspired, but is actually the word of God and is historically accurate. I work with several such people and their beliefs are that the Bible is the exact word of God, is completely internally consistent, lays out a plan for exactly how life should be lived and that any other religion's holy writ is not true, and is not even divinely inspired (e.g., the Upanishads are not of a divine origin).
It does no good to get into a ****ing contest in such issues because the funadamental argument comes down to "I believe in X" versus "I do not believe in X" - there is no winning in such a case and you will not sway people to your belief system.
Craig M. Parsons-Kerins
-The East Coast Omni-Heurist!
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Originally posted by darkblood:
Yet, due to the ambiguous nature of the writing in the Bible, you can prove it says almost anything. TV evangelists have been doing it for years. However, no matter what the Bible says, it was written by humans, and therefore is not absolutely infallible. And what about the many books that didn't make it into the Bible? And what about other religions besides Christianity? Are they wrong if they contradict something in the Bible? And what if we not worry about what the Bible says and ask God ourselves? God must know what the correct answer is. Maybe there is no correct answer.Feel free to stone me for questioning church scripture.
