Why do Christians make God out to be dumb?

I'm past being surprised at anything jar says, but it is remarkable that someone who apparently treats the Bible as a book of lies except for the resurrection could call it inspired.

1Cr 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.1Cr 1:20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?1Cr 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.1Cr 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.1Cr 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.1Cr 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I don't think jar considers it a book of lies. My impression is that he does not think it was intended to be taken as literal truth, or as accurate historical reports.

Which means lies really. Unless you're into it all depending on what the meaning of is is.

Of course I don't consider it a book of lies, rather one that transmits major and important truths and lessons. But again, many Christians make not just God seem studid and petty, but by making silly statements like "I'm past being surprised at anything jar says, but it is remarkable that someone who apparently treats the Bible as a book of lies except for the resurrection could call it inspired." make themselves and similar Christians look stupid as well. It is sad, pathetic and pitiful and one can only feel sorry for such people.GOD is awesome and wondrous, and those Christians that work so hard to make God look like a bling-bling pimp daddy or that insist on denying the very evidence of the the Universe GOD created worship the Bible instead of GOD.

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this is wrong on so many levels, your black and white blinders make you blind to the fact that to have spiritual truth something doesn't need to be historical.
if you think something has to be literal truth, then you have lost all meaning to the bible and half of what jesus SAID, being fables to explain spirtual truthyour inconsistency scares me

The question of what the meaning of "is" is, actually is a very serious question. The right wing idealogues who ridiculed it only demonstrated their own ignorance of language and its complexities.Your assertion that if it is not literal truth, it is lies -- well that's wrong. That is opinion that you are imposing yourself.If what is not truth is lies, then Jesus was a liar. After all, he told parables.

I'm in good company then. So many illustrious Christians of the past and present and I are all wrong together then.Jesus told parables, but the Bible isn't parables otherwise, which ought to be obvious.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

It's pretty obvious that the talking-snake story isn't literal history.

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'fraid so. It isn't literal history, either. Part is poetry, part is story, part is metaphor, part is symbolic fantasy.One should read it, as one should read any literature, in accordance with the principle of charity.

NONE of it is symbolic fantasy -- symbolic yes, lots of it is that, some of it hidden from most interpreters, but fantasy, no. MOST of it is literal history. The psalms and wisdom literature are easily identified as such. The only parts that are stories are where somebody is clearly telling a story; if it has no identified teller it is not a parable or a story. Metaphor abounds, but any kid can tell the difference between reality statements and metaphor unless liberals mess with his mind. Absolutely. And that's how we evangelicals read it, according to its obvious intentions. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

so samson killed 3 thousand people with an asses jawbone then?
all of the psalms is peotry, its considered peotry by every historian who ever lived, even the conservitive ones yes as an understanding of god, not a history book.. oh wait.. no you don't, silly methe thing is the jews wrote it as history, because thats what they considered history, but its not correct history, of course it wouldn't be written with disclaimers saying "this really didn't happen, it was all just made up"
but it still doesn't mean its literal history

Are you for real? I am beginning to wonder.Then you must acknowledge the "literal" meaning in this inspired blessed psalm:

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37:9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!

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This sounds more like bad hip-hop lyrics than god inspired prose.Or maybe you can explain the literal meaning behind this notable "scripture" from Numbers.

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31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

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31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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I guess you're one of those who just comb the scriptures for the scary harsh statements so you can complain about them, without bothering about context, getting a picture of the whole. Funny you think your knee-jerk take on it means anything in the context of 2000 or even 3000 years of millions of people who really understand it. Yes, God said those things, ordered those actions. They are incredibly harsh, they make a person cringe at the harshness. But they ought to tell you something about the fate of unrepentant sinners in the hands of God. This is serious stuff here. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Whoa... context is irrelevant - these are immoral statements. The context of child rape and killing babies are unimportant. You sound like Ted Bundy's defense lawyer telling the jury they need to understand the context.

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But they ought to tell you something about the fate of unrepentant sinners in the hands of God.

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No but they are telling about the nature of people who blinding believe these things are from god.Edited by troxelso, : No reason given.