On Thu, 8 May 2008 05:11:30 -0700 (PDT), Emerson Wainwright
<emersonwainwright@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On May 8, 5:11 am, Christ's Love <christsag...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> The Bible has many seeming contradictions within its pages.
>
>"Seeming"?
>
>> For
>> example, the four Gospels give four differing accounts as to what was
>> written on the sign that hung on the cross. Matthew said, “This is
>> Jesus the King of the Jews” (27:37). However, Mark contradicts that
>> with “The King of the Jews” (15:26). Luke says something different:
>> “This is the King of the Jews” (23:38), and John maintains that the
>> sign said “Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews” (19:19).
>>
>> Those who are looking for contradictions may therefore say, “See—the
>> Bible is full of mistakes!” and choose to reject it entirely as being
>> untrustworthy. However, those who trust God have no problem
>> harmonizing the Gospels.
>
>No problem if they do that for themselves. It's when they insist that
>everyone else do it that we have a problem.
>
>> There is no contradiction if the sign simply
>> said, “This is Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews.”
>>
>> The godly base their confidence on two truths: 1) “all Scripture is
>> given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16);
>
>NB: 2 Timothy 3:16 was written BY A MAN. So were the rest of the
>books. Just saying "God inspired this" doesn't make it true.
>
>
>> and 2) an elementary
>> rule of Scripture is that God has deliberately included seeming
>> contradictions in His Word to “snare” the proud.
>
>LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>I thought he was omniscient. If so, he already knows who's proud and
>who's not, so there would be no need to play this game with people's
>souls. Is this Supreme Being of yours REALLY that ****ing bored? If
>so, let him know I'm STILL waiting for him to answer my prayer that I
>should win the lottery. He needs to quit playing these games and show
>me da money!
>
>Anyway, playing with people's souls like this sounds rather more
>Satanic than heavenly, dontcha think?
>
>> He has “hidden”
>> things from the “wise and prudent” and “revealed them to babes” (Luke
>> 10:21), purposely choosing foolish things to confound the wise (1
>> Corinthians 1:27).
>
>Ah~! So there IS an Easter bunny.
>
>Why is this creator so CHILDISH? This universe is VAST! He needs to
>find a new hobby.
Stop ridiculing, Emerson. You know deep in your heart what you really
need.
Always remember: Christ loves you, and so do I! Each and every one of you!
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