On Believing What the Bible Says...

When it comes to Christians who quote the Bible here at DC, to us it's like quoting from Homer!

When it comes to using the reported miracles in the Bible to defend that the Bible is God's word, Christians operate by a double standard. Christians themselves follow the scientific mindset when it comes to pretty much everything else. They rely on science every single day.

Christian, you yourself are skeptical about most miraculous claims, and you use the prevailing modern scientific mindset to reject them. If you had heard of Balaam's tale in the ancient world you would not believe his tale unless you personally heard his ass speak! [Assuming he was a real person with a tale to tell in the first place].

Just think about how that tale got into the Bible in the first place. Someone had to believe him who then included it. But why should he? All he had to go on was what Balaam said. He didn't hear his ass speak!

You'll say the tale is true because God told someone in a vision(?) to include it, but why should anyone but the person who saw such a vision believe that God actually spoke to him? And aren't visions subjective? Don't you know of Pentecostals who claim God spoke to them too? Even other Pentecostals don't believe every claim of this sort from others within their group, and most other Christians probably deny most or all of them. So again, why believe the Bible, and why quote from it to people like us who need these questions answered first? It's just silly to us.

5 comments:

GordonBlood said...

Frankly John I myself am agnostic about the narrative. Essentially we just dont have enough context nor history to argue for its plausibility, other than the fact that the Old Testament obviously embodies ancient traditom. In either case its erroneous to the Christian faith, de facto.

Unknown said...

This always reminds me of reading the Bhagavad Gita. The thing that jumped out to me was if you replaced "Krishna"(?) with "God", you could pass off about of 1/4 of the whole thing as biblical scripture to almost any Christian.

Jamie Steele said...

I like what Hillary Clinton told this reporter:

Reporter: And your attitude toward the Bible about how literally people should take it.

Senator Clinton: I think the whole Bible is real. The whole Bible gives you a glimpse of God and God's desire for a personal relationship, but we can't possibly understand every way God is communicating with us. I've always felt that people who try to shoehorn in their cultural and social understandings of the time into the Bible might be actually missing the larger point that we're supposed to take from the Bible.

Evan said...

I think the whole Iliad is real. The whole Iliad gives you a glimpse of Athena and Athena's desire for a personal relationship, but we can't possibly understand every way Athena is communicating with us. I've always felt that people who try to shoehorn in their cultural and social understandings of the time into the Iliad might be actually missing the larger point that we're supposed to take from the Iliad.

Is this also correct?

Jamie Steele said...

Evan,
No