Funny thing, though, for all the criticisms leveled at the Bible, the least of those who simply read it through faith in Christ, while looking towards God and in truth, have the Holy Spirit to reveal to them even more deeply all the truths of Scripture to their spirit. This is something the most studied scholar who lacks faith or questions Scripture's veracity never receives.
Thank you for that, Cvengr. I pinged you Blogger, because I wanted to share this with you.
Whatever else is true, and whatever differences there may be in this or that proposition, it is, I think, just a Cvengr says -- if I were to tweak it at all it would be to say that in this kind of reading we get to know not the book but the author, and at that point what we say is way less important that what HE says.
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How do I have any less faith than any other man? Again, the bible is FULL of implausible numbers, myths, errata. You grab the WHOLE THING to your breast from wall to wall as perfect truth. I'm doing a bit of righteous early spring house cleaning, throwing out the implausible numbers, obvious myths, errata; getting to the TRUTH of God's Word.
My lord Jesus did the same thing when he overthrew the money changers tables in the temple, about the only VIOLENT act he ever did. My father's house is for prayers, not thieves!
You are no different than those money changers, garbaging up the BIBLE TEMPLE with implausible numbers, myths, errata. If you had 1/10th the righteousness of our lord Jesus you would cleanse it as he did with the money changer's tables. Can you do it?