And they spend no time in reading and learning what God is saying...
And yes, there are countless bible students striving to become scholars who focus their education on the bible, not about the bible...And thank God for those Christians...
One can clearly see the difference on these FR threads...
There is a guy on a liberal forum I go to that is apparently in some sort of religious study’s class in college now. He keeps posting the latest thing he has heard that “debunks” the bible as “proof” that it is all nonsense.
He has no clue that he is bringing up arguments that are decades or even centuries old and Christian bible scholars have clearly debunked
One of the more interesting areas of study here is the guys that say many of the stories of the bible actually come from other cultures and predate the bible. That really does not concern me since we all know that there were many people on the planet that the bible is silent about. How was God dealing with those cultures? What of what they wrote down was from their experiences with God? We don’t know. The bible doesn’t discuss every single thing that happened in every single culture on the planet. It discusses what God, in His infinite wisdom, chooses for subsequent generations to know. We get snippets of those other things to be sure. For all we know, it was God working through man to produce the men that eventually put His word to pen.
The proof of this is the geniologies in Genesis. Various bible characters had a particular son at a particular age and had “other sons and daughters”. Well, what ever happened to them? And were “other sons and daughters” not more numberous than the single one called out by name?
The bible says what it needs to say as a means to an end. It doesn’t cover every single aspect of every person’s life in every culture. It covers what needs to be covered to bring us, individually, to that end.