Shennanigans
PoeticVengeance
John Calvin
PoeticVengeance
Shennanigans
None of these contradictions are at all important.
Justify this.
Shennanigans probably said that none of the contradictions at had are "at all important," because he does not want to deal with them. He may also have withdrew from dealing with them, since there are people in the world who have already dealt with the issues posed.
I mostly just wanted him to not do a one word response.
I myself can spot many of the issues in the list of contradictions.
I have no interest in debating how many troops fought on what side against which king in what year. That is beside the point, isn't it?
Then cite it as irrelevant.
Of course, then you'll need to justify it as irrelevant. Considering we're dealing with common misconceptions in Christianity, that includes so called contradictions.
Instead of claiming they aren't important, why not look at them critically and determine if they are?
If they are unimportant then show why they don't matter.
John Calvin put the effort in, why couldn't you?
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Who cares how many stables King Solomon had? The Bible is neither a science text nor a history text. Over the course of the Bible, the Hebrews adapted to four different calenders, had contact with different counting systems, and was compiled over the course of a few thousand years. I daresay that it is the most internally consistent document that has been edited for the last four thousand years in existence.
So? One of the concepts that is very prevalent in Christianity is that the Scriptures are inerrant (both for simply the original translation, and overall. But the overall inerrancy doctrine is idiotic, since words like homosexuality and Hell didn't exist back then. So we'll stick with the original translation inerrancy doctrine).
Scriptural Inerrancy In the Original Writings is what was being called into question with the posting of the contradictions.
That not only makes it relevant (since this thread is a debate about what mainstream christianity is wrong or right about) but also makes it important.
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When I say that none of these contradictions matter, they do not pertain to the purpose of the Bible, which is to tell the story of the salvation of mankind and to contain the revelation of God to man.
Is this thread about the purpose of the bible?
No?
Then your bitching is irrelevant.
This thread is about misconceptions of mainstream Christians about the Scriptures and their religion.
It is not about the overall purpose of the Scriptures or of Christianity itself. If you think that a misconception exists within Christianity about the main purpose of the Bible, then by all means bring it up.
But no one here cares about it if there isn't a mistake being made to call on. Don't like it? Then make a thread about the purpose of the Scriptures and how contradictions don't matter and we can chat about it there.
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Your contradictions do not in any way place that message in doubt.
Note carefully, that I never once posted contradictions, nor did I ever show agreement with the post that contained them.
You fail reading comprehension if you even think I'm arguing on either side of the debate on whether contradictions take from the purpose of the Bible.
I'm just telling you to put your damn back into it and stop copping out by claiming irrelevancy. The rest of us are making the effort. Don't be lazy.