Posted on 07/27/2022 9:49:29 PM PDT by fidelis
We get it. It's hard to read the divinely inspired word of the creator of the universe. He's so judgy! But, since your salvation might depend on it, you better get some great excuses ready to share on Judgment Day.
Here are some of the best excuses for not reading your Bible:
1. You just went to church last month and don't want to overdo it: You don't want to be an extremist!
2. It's not as encouraging as Your Best Life Now: Joel Osteen's prose is to die for.
3. If you take your eye off the Hot Pocket you're microwaving for one second it might burn: And then you'd be hungry! God wouldn't want that.
4. You already watched The Chosen: It's so hard to get into a good book if you already know how it ends.
5. Those 900 Korok seeds in Zelda: Breath of the Wild aren't going to collect themselves: Finding Korok seeds is a metaphor for finding Christ probably.
6. You're Donald Trump and don't need forgiveness: He has never done anything wrong, ever.
7. You're still recovering from the story of Ehud: Enough to give anyone PTSD.
8. You misplaced your copy and new ones are so hard to find: You have to walk all the way to the back of Barnes & Noble.
9. The Jordan Peterson lecture on Genesis you watched has you covered: Up yours woke moralists! We'll see who cancels who from paradise!
20. It's not like the Bible is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work, or anything like that: 'Cause if it were, you'd definitely meditate on it day and night.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
How much MORE do we need than the bible?
1 Corinthians 15 KJV
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Go to any bookstore and look up “lost books of the Bible”. You’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. Shepherd of Hermas, Gospel of Judas, etc
Without an infallible church to determine canon you’re just guessing. And we’re the ones that determined canon. Protestants weren’t even around then.
And your “infallible church” picked the books full of Protestant theology.
Thank you for your endorsement!
Neither your “church” nor you are infallible.
And - just so you learn SOMEthing here: we don’t accept your cannon.
BOOM!
Rahab
Also Tamar — incest
Bathsheba — adultery
Mary — pregnant before marriage.
The Lord’s DNA has shadows of two Canaanites, a Moabite, a Hittite and a Jew. Assuming similarities in DNA then and now.
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