If a person does not take the Bible to be inerrant, how could he understand what it said?
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If I were to say "I have a dog named Mr. Bigglesworth," would you have any problem understanding that? But get this: it's not true !--It's in error ! (*shock* *ghasp*) But you understood it, didn't you?
If I recall, I beleive that it's called Suspension of Disbeleif. It's also what lets me enjoy movies, video games, and other forms of fiction.
If a person does not take the Bible to be inerrant, how could he understand what it said?
That's a fine question rhutchin. How does one understand what the bible says. Here's how; go to a preacher and he will tell you that if you don't understand it, it's because you need someone to explain it to you. And those parts that seem out-there and go against physics? Those are just parables or allegories. The bottom line is, if you don't get it, make up new rules! It was a dream! It was a hallucination! Because there couldn't actually be any mistakes in the bible, being so thouroughly researched, written, and edited by the men and women who actually were there. Oh no, that's wrong, it's a slapped together from a billion fragments of unconfirmed stories about non-existant people and written by folks who were born hundreds of years after the fact and edited by kings and rich churches to conform to their particular brand of evil. My mistake.
There is a part in every erosnons life in which they can not understand that people can have "false beliefs".
"If a person does not take the Bible to be inerrant, how could he understand what it said?"
With considerably less difficulty, given the illogic, contradictions and moral ambiguity often presented. Fundamentalists don't, nay, cannot understand the entire bible, the contradictions make this logically impossible. Because the book often presents opposing positions on the same issue, they merely fixate upon the ones that appeal to them or seem to fit the argument they're making at the time and disregard the opposing one, thus shoehorning the book they claim to follow into their own warped philosophy, which seems rooted in arrogance, dogmatism and suppression of dissent.
Very simple, where did Caine's wife came?, have you lately seen many speaking snakes?, how is it possible that women have the same material as a rib and science is silent?. I can carry on, because surely you bolt down lobster and use mix-fabric clothes.
How wondrous are your beliefs when your primary advice to anyone who wants to study your holy book is that, in order to understand it, one must not think and one must not ask questions about the contents. Hmmm?
This one seems to be deserving of an Ultimate Fundie Award -- or perhaps a Fairy Logic Award, since the premise is that one can't understand the Bible without preconditionally believing it to be true and inerrant (just as one supposedly cannot see fairies unless one already believes in them). I agree, this poor sod's mind is operating on the analytical level of a 2-year-old child.
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