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Its your falsehoods that drive people away from Christianity.

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What?

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You go from accusing me of denying that the Bible is a God-inspired whole, but now "admitting" it, to what exactly?

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I merely point out that claiming that God is the author of the Bible contradicts the claim that it had multiple human authors.

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But the evidence is incredibly strong and worthy of trust.

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No, it isn't. That's why you can't come up with anything good.

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Try believing it instead of criticizing it.

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I did. Maybe you will one day. Or better yet, maybe you'll understand it instead of ising it as an excuse to justify your own prejudices.

But that's ridiculous. Of course it had multiple human authors, all moved by the Spirit of God.As for the rest, Oh well.

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But that's ridiculous. Of course it had multiple human authors, all moved by the Spirit of God.

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Who said "Being inspired means God authored it" ?

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As for the rest, Oh well.

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Yeah, I guess you know that you don't have any decent evidence. That's why you won't discuss it.

I don't know how you are finding this difficult. God DID author it, by inspiring the human writers to write according to His inspiration. As I said, I have serious doubts that you would be persuaded by the excellent evidence there is. But I haven't yet read the Scarlet Thread of Redemption. We'll see how that goes. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

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I don't know how you are finding this difficult. God DID author it, by inspiring the human writers to write according to His inspiratiOn

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I'm not having any trouble at all. You're the one with the problem. If the human authors aren't writing their words from their experiences they aren't making any sort of witness statement.

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As I said, I have serious doubts that you would be persuaded by the excellent evidence there is.

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You mean that you expect me to tell the truth rather than pretending that you're right.

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But I haven't yet read the Scarlet Thread of Redemption. We'll see how that goes.

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I've glanced at it. It's a sermon, not very long. And it says much less than you claimed. Not that I expect you to put the actual text ahead of what you want it to say. After your treatment of the Bible and Calvin I have no illusions on that score.

Phat, I don't understand your question. Is what a necessity?

Faith I am not giving any false reading, and folk (as long as they are not "Biblical Christians) can even go and read what is actually written in Genesis 2&3.We don't need the Book of Revelation to be able to actually read what is written in Genesis 2&3.AbE: Also, I've read the Bible Faith and in Revelation Satan is called the serpent that deceives mankind while in Genesis 2&3 the serpent actually tells the truth and deceives no one. It is the God character that deceives mankind so the God character in Genesis 2&3 is Satan according to Revelation?Edited by jar, : see AbE:

In Genesis, 3:12-13, the man says,

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'The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.'

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and the woman says,

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'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.'

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If the serpent was possessed by Satan, and was therefore able to talk, why didn't God ask it why it had beguiled the woman? I'm sure a lot of people would be very interested to know, and even the serpent had a right to say something in its defence.Also, if the serpent was possessed by Satan, one could argue that it was not responsible for its actions. If so, why did God punish all natural snakes by forcing them to march on their stomachs, like Napoleon's army?

Perhaps the answer to this seeming contradiction is simply to think of God more in the way a Calvinist would. In a universe where everything is pre-ordained, men simply write the scripture God would have them write. If under such thinking, all of the evil men do is predestined by God, surely their Biblical writings are as well.

Which makes all books equally "inspired by God". I suppose Christians should be glad that Calvinism is not as Biblical as Faith pretends (even if she only means that her version of Calvinism agrees with her version of the Bible)

For a real challenge, try to spin this story in a way that makes sense under Calvinist doctrine.

How is the claim that so many people believe it is the truth evidence it is the truth? That is the logical fallacy known as 'argumentum ad populum' , also known as ". argumentum ad numerum ".

Not only that, but the inquisition burnt many Jews, who died with them reciting the schema as the burnt to the crisp. that must mean Judaism is the truth, since these people died rejecting Christianity and they were tortured to death rather than renounce their faith.

I'm quite sure that God already knew why. Satan was merely acting out the choice that he had made...to oppose God. God never asked questions to find out the answer. God asked us questions so that we would reflect on our decisions and choices and see ourselves in a mirror.