metmom wrote:
“It all depends on how accurate you think the Bible is.”
I think it is accurate beyond our imagination, beyond our ability to grasp fully.
I will, respectfully, disagree with your interjected “Balderdash” and what follows it. What is necessary for our salvation is just what you say, “plain, simple, obvious.” It is accessible and understandable to a child, as the Bible makes clear in more than one place. But there are other things of which God’s Word speaks that we still struggle with, as did those who went before us. This, that you would like to make so simple, is one of them. But, rejoice, neither your nor my salvation depends on knowing the answer. That is the nature of adiaphora.
As a wise man once said to me, “God’s Word is shallow enough for a child to wade in safely, and yet deep enough to drown the wisest of men.”
“God’s Word is shallow enough for a child to wade in safely, and yet deep enough to drown the wisest of men.”
GREAT LINE.