Of course my efforts are finite, you twit. You folks claim that the Bible is the unerring word of a supernatural being. In reality, its just a religious tract, no more inherently truthful than the Bhagavad Gita or the Koran. And what better way to demonstrate that its a creation of bored men and not gods, than to show that its chock full of errors, inconsistencies and falsitudes?
There is nothing in it that is not truth, because it is God's word.
You're telling me that you really believe that rabbits chew their cud?
If you see it as false, it is because you are not able to see because of your own spiritual condition.
Knowledge of the mechanics of rabbits' digestive system is hardly dependent on spiritual enlightenment.
If you are right, and the Bible is not true, we, who believe it are fools, but our future and our fate will be unaffected. If we are right, and the Bible is true, you will spend eternity in horrible punishment because you have scoffed at the Creator, and not accepted the redeeming Love of His Son, Jesus Christ.
This is the worst argument I've ever read. You're saying that I should start believing in your religion because its safer if it should turn out that your beliefs are correct? What happens if the "One, True Religion" should turn out to be Sikhism, Islam, or Zoroastrianism? There are literally thousands of religions in the world, and if we follow your approach and pick the one least likely to let us wind up in Hell or Hades or whatever, the odds of any particular one being "True" are infintissimally small.
only a spiritual awakening to a God who is at this moment, reaching out to you in love.
Zeus? Ankhenaten? Baal?
I pray, for your sake, that it is sooner.....rather than later.
Nonsense, you're not praying for my sake. But thanks for condescending, anyway.
No. I'm not saying that at all. I just quoted a serious question which you might want to ask yourself, before you continue your derision of things you don't understand.
btw, I love that you called me a twit. It reveals much about the level of your ability to conduct a reasonable conversation.
You began your discussion with me by claiming that the Scripture claims a flat earth because of a dream by a Babylonian king........showing that you are either ignorant of what's really in the Bible or (more likely) are using what little you know in a twisted manner to 'prove' that it's invalid. How could the dream of a non-believer be construed by anyone seriously seeking truth, as 'proof' that the Bible supports a flat earth? That one question, in and of itself, proved your insincerity.
Everything in your following 'questions' has been a continuation of your pre-disposed hostility to the Word of God.
Taking the risk that there's no point in this, because of the clear idiology you're coming from, I'll take one shot at helping you understand the difference between the Bible and any other body of 'religious' literature.
I will frame it in the person of Jesus Christ.
He is the ONLY one of the religious leaders to have claimed to be God, leaving the only choices to be that he was either insane, a liar, or was indeed God.
He is the ONLY one of the religious leaders to have lived a sinless life.
He is the ONLY one of the religious leaders to have sacrificed His life for the Redemption of sin.
He is the ONLY one of the religious leaders who rose from the dead (with hundreds of credible witnesses), and is alive today, and He is the only one of the so-called prophets who desires a relationship with us.
There are many historic and archaelogical ways to prove that the Bible is a valid historical text, but God has given us free will, so that we may choose, as you have, to deny the truth that He has given us.
You have read the Bible. You have seen the truth. It's not condescending for me to pray that you some day recognize it for what it is. Not at all.