It seems to me that far from following any known methodology, Christians decide which parts of the book are poetic devices arbitrarily to suit their personal interpretation.
For example what in Leviticus16:34 leads you to believe the term "forever" is poetry. And if that is poetry why not...
The riddle is why you think a perfect book is riddled with errors, the more so since your post is riddled with errors.
And my English is really good, so I can judge what you written good, too.
[Mic drop]
This is how I understand the Bible.
The Bahá'ís believe that God's Revelation is under His care and protection and that the essence, or essential elements, of what His Manifestations intended to convey has been recorded and preserved in Their Holy Books. However, as the sayings of the ancient...
When Eve and then Adam ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which is symbolic of choosing law over instinct, they allied with Satan. The Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil was Satan's tree. Satan was the Lord of the Earth in the Old Testament. This role of Satan can be seen in the book...
no the forever means forever, as I see it.
But it's not an adverb in Hebrew.
in "closed its bars forever" the forever is an adverb.
You could also add a verb like "to be".
I would translate "I would have been there forever!"
Since the verb is missing, and you need to add a verb for English to...
So are you saying that the word "forever" in the Bible really does mean forever? Because then you have the problem posed in the OP about Leviticus16:34
34 “And this shall be a statute forever for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.”
With the...
There is a long Wiki article on the subject of biblical inerrancy: Biblical inerrancy - Wikipedia
As so often, this concept has different usage in different branches of Christianity.
The formulation used by the Catholic church (2nd Vatican Council) is narrow: "The books of Scripture must be...
In my opinion, the Bible does not contain errors.
Hi SAT,
I didn't read the thread, maybe others have replied already.
Your last point is easy, I think.
God never changes in that he listens to his people. There is dialogue.
When they say that something really needs to be changed, he changes it...
Politicians and royalty rewrote many bible passages. So, they might have been correct when written, but they might (or might not be) right today.
The fact that there are many versions of the same bible, and not all versions are identical, proves that some bibles were altered.
David's Israel...
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Gospels is neither authored by G-d nor written by Jesus nor dictated by Jesus so it has to have contradictions, I understand, but our JW friend here told us that Jesus did not have to author or write anything as Jesus had secretaries who recorded everything Jesus told and...
The only thing a writing like this one of yours completely convinces me of is that people who are out there who say that the second coming has occurred are wrong. Because after the second coming there won't be any writings like this. I wish people would stop believing (those who do) that the...
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This was an interesting article I was just reading:
Alexander the Great razes Tyre....
[the prophecy was that]
There would be “many nations” against Tyre (Ezekiel 26: 3)
Her walls and towers would be torn down...
I came to find, read, discover the belief of some that the Word of God was the Word of creation. The blueprint for creation that God uttered in the beginning. Jesus was the conclusion of that plan. The Word made flesh. Creation was perfect, the plan was without error.
The Bible is just history...
Forever can be a long time or a short time.
Jon 2:6 (2:7) I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
In the case of Jonah, "for ever" was three days.
I just think some people mistake Word and word. People hold, study, and read the word both people for and against the bible. The Word (human incarnated law of the creator) is actually the person the bible talks "about." So, my question is as a devil's advocate: is there contradiction in christ...
It's no secret that God's "inerrant" word is riddled with errors. One can google "Bible contradictions" and come up with with pages and pages of results outlining hundreds if not thousands of errors and contradictions. Whole books on the subject are available on Amazon. Ken Ham wrote a...
The English translations aren't always 100% accurate. The word can mean for an indefinite amount of time or of long duration.
The Law was for the Mosaic Covenant and in the New Covenant there is a new law. The Mosaic Law foreshadowed Jesus and what He would do in the New Covenant.
I'll answer your other points later. Right now, I still wonder: Yahweh said in leviticus16:34:
"And this shall be a statute >>forever<< for you.
It doesn't say "temporarily until I institute a permanent sacrifice through my son who will die for the sins of mankind" no, it says "FOREVER"...