Modulous writes:
Really: the liberal Christians have to do something of a special pleading. Sure, they say, the Bible makes errors in History, Linguistics, Biology, Geology, Astronomy and Cosmology - but the one thing it always gets right is matters of spirit.
That is what Dogma and the church is for. All this nonsense is caused by
Sola Scriptura and the need of that crowd to have a literal and truthful document, when everyone else knows they don’t have one.
You've managed to generate some interesting discussions in a thread that was started by you to express your worries that you are despised.
If you are despised, some people are at least willing to spend a little time of their lives dedicated to discussing your opinions. That's got to be worth something.
Word. If this guy was despised I think no one would respond. It’s the reason y’all let us hang here, because you need an opposing POV for this site and debate to function, I don’t care if I am correct or not, it’s more entertaining to participate.
Personally, I enjoy the adrenaline of reading a scathing criticism of my views. That said, it's an acquired taste, not for the light-hearted.
EXACTLY! That is why I am here. I wish I could come up with something scathing to say to you right now, but you are making a lot of sense right now.
Dr Adequate writes:
Surely for Christianity to be worthwhile, only certain things need to be true: such that there is a God, that he prefers good to evil, that he was incarnate in Jesus, and so forth. If the Bible was reliable enough to make these inferences from it, then would it matter if it also contained errors?
As it happens, I'm in the middle of reading Lowen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, about errors, omissions, and distortions in high school history textbooks. Despite these errors, someone reading the textbooks would be correct in inferring that the War of Independence took place, that George Washington existed, and so forth.
Look at it this way. Suppose you die and go to heaven and stand before the great white throne, and God says: "Well done for believing in me and my son, who, as you see, is sitting here at my right hand ... oh, by the way, I gotta tell you, Genesis isn't true, I didn't write it." Would you then exclaim: "Oh, in that case Christianity is worthless!" Of course not. Either it is or it isn't. This cannot depend on the question of whether the whole of the Bible is accurate and to be taken literally.
5/5 stars, man.
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