ScottA
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Two things:I guess this is where we part ways to trust.?.?.? I read many verses which do not appear to jive or be compatible with shared and known reality? You are saying I should discard any and every logical verified discovery, which flies in the face of the Bible, to instead 'trust' the Bible? I'm to then also be okay with slavery (Exodus 21), be good with women's inequality (1 Timothy 11-12), ignore all scientific opposition to basically all of Genesis (which included all of geology, astronomy, biology, etc..), when my human logic honestly tells me none of this appears morally just or scientifically factual?
So you are basically telling me I should trust THIS book because it says so? Is this what you are effectively saying? If I'm to reduce my logic to that of an unthinking being (to resemble a little chicken), then what is the point of reading the Bible, and abiding by the Bible? But more importantly, how am I supposed to assess that the Bible is actually correct, while all other claimed holy books are not the true and real? If I'm to reduce my belief status to that of a child, I guess it's a good thing I was not born in a Muslim country.
- You must surely have never been in love, for you have defined its affinity to illogic perfectly. What then - shall we not love, because of logic? Either way...your logic has failed you.
- But the correct logic is this: The world is not what it appears, but is rather (just as I said) the manifestation of all things both good and evil, right and wrong...indeed both logical and illogical, playing out the failures of godlessness to our own shame. But the world, in tune with its own ways has formed its own logic in accord with worldly chaos, like trusting in laws like gravity that say the force of whorling through space is something constant. The amazing thing is, not only has the world been duped, but the world has its own book - and you believed it...and yet are reluctant to believe in Him who set the whole thing spinning. Ha!