I’m not trying to argue that the bible is not the inspired word of God. Rather, I’m implying that throwing that word “inspired” in there has tremendous ramifications and makes it not the same as if the word was missing.
1) The Bible is from God or it is not. There is no middle ground.
2) Don’t try to bend the Bible in to your way of thinking. We have to bend to what it says whether we like it or not. We may not understand the purpose of something in there now but later........
3) Del Tackett in The Truth Project presented the ideas of cocoons. A butterfly has to work its way out of the situation in order to have the strength to fly. If you cut open the cocoon and help the butterfly, it will die.
I actually like being in “cocoons”. There are many things in the Bible I don’t understand. But I know I will get answers if I keep looking and am stronger for the process.
4) Which item makes you nervous?
Which item makes you nervous?
Take every book of the new testament and bind it as a separate document. Every single one of these documents was penned by a man. Now, for each of these documents (some are a single piece of paper) make a case for why it should be revered as “the word of God” relative to anything else penned by a man.
Right now I’m not offering any answers, but only questions.
This in no way reduces my belief that Jesus is the Son of God and that salvation is in His blood alone. But I’m finding myself questioning the veracity of some scripture as I am so heavily exposed to it.