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Heidi, remember that the Bible was devinely inspired, not man's understanding of it.
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I
do remember that the Bible itself,
claims to be divinely inspired. I do not believe it, however. It makes no sense to me that god would inspire people to write something that other people would not be able to understand. SO Why
bother??? What is the
point??? That concept seems
ludicrous.
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Remember that I Corinthians 2:14 says of the natural man, "But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of YHWH; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised."
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Scripture is often unbelievable to me because it describes something scientifically nonsensical, and/or rationally contradictory, and/or intellectually ridiculous. So I guess an
UN-natural man
would find it believable, huh?
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By your own admission you have stated you do not understand certain things in Scripture. Does that mean that the Bible is not inspired of YHWH?
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I understand the scripture... I do not believe it could have been written by anyone but a collection of human beings. It means that the scripture is often so unbelievable to me that I cannot accept the idea that any divine intelligence could
possibly be behind it. The contradictions, the cruelty, the primitive religious rituals, the unbelievable and illogical stories are
all quintessentially and typically
human.
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Do you have the mind of YHWH that you can say to Him I am sorry but the Bible is not from You just because you lack understanding of the words therein?
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No. Actually, if I
could speak with God, I would say "Please tell me you didn't go to all that trouble to inspire hundreds of pages of nonsense. If you did, then please explain why you wanted people to struggle and argue over it endlessly. Better yet, please just talk to me directly, OK?
You've apparently misunderstood me when I've indicated that I do not understand. I have no problem understanding and comprehending the
words in the scriptures themselves. They indicate, however, things that I
do find irrational and/or unbelievable. Some scriptures are even shocking in their instructions to perform acts that I consider ignorant, depraved, cruel and primitive.
I have trouble understanding why any present-day, probably reasonably well-educated and rational person would believe everything that is written in the Bible. I do not understand how anyone with a rational mind can convince themselves that the Bible was inspired by god... whether you call "god" - YHWH or Jehovah or whomever.
How very clever that the scriptures themselves include a statement to the effect that normal ordinary people (natural man?) will often find the scriptures unbelievable ("foolishness") - and that if they do, it means they just don't understand the mind of "YHWH". I don't understand why you don't recognize how
ridiculous that is.
OK. How about
this:
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"Twas brillig and the slivey toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsey were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe."
-- Lewis Carroll, The Jabberwockey
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Anyone who fails to understand the above quote, and thinks that it is foolishness simply fails to understand the mind of Lewis Carroll. Amen
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