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It's called Making God in our own immage , people do it every day.[U]PilgrimsProgress[/U] -----Fact. The Bible was written by humans - not God. We humans thrive on stories, and humans -after the crucifixion - constructed stories (the Gospels differ).
That may be your Fact --but that is definitely not what the scripture says and that is definitely not what I believe ----where did you get your info from ???????
Mendalla -----No, that is not my opinion. That is how English grammar works.
That may be your opinion ---but I am not working with your worldly grammar -----I am working with Bible Grammar ---2 different grammars -----that is the way I see it for me ----you see it your way --I see it my way ----- again it comes done to belief in what the word is saying and understanding the word through Spiritual means not human means ---
There is not one Scripture that backs up God' who is Love as protruding it to be completely unconditional ------and God doesn't give out His Love to us ----God is Love ---that is who God is --and ----God's Love is available to us by Grace alone ---We can't do anything to earn this Love ----and we humans have taken it to a very bad extreme and have used and abused this unconditional love thing to mean that His Love that He will save us in the end without us having to respond to God at all and that is just the mentality that we humans have made by Preaching and Teaching bad Doctrine to our church ----- Wrongly dividing God's word
God sent His Only Son to Die to Save Humanity ----that is God who is Love --- no condition placed on humanity for God to do this selfless Act ----Then He never puts any demand on anyone to accept this free Gift -----He allows us to choose and those that choose to accept they do so because they are responding to that Love who is God --That Love calls and one responds by and through Faith ----- and obeys His will ---The --IF You--- in scripture is all about Love -----no demand to accept --choice to choose to respond or not ----
God could demand and say you will except my Son and---- Bingo Bango Bongo ----you would except Him and have no choice -----He didn't give Jonah a choice ---He quickly put him in the belly of a whale and left him there for a few days --that is God demanding and using His Sovereignty to get the job done ----so don't kid yourself He could make all people do whatever He wants ---- but He said ---If you --out of Love which is who He is ------
If we don't respond to the Love offer --we will reap the consequence for that and God who is Love will respect our decision ----and still love us as we reject Him -----
This is how I see it ----Spiritually not Humanly ---you can see it as you like ----
Er, my info came from the Bible????????????????That may be your Fact --but that is definitely not what the scripture says and that is definitely not what I believe ----where did you get your info from ???????
[U]PilgrimsProgress----your[/U] quote ----Er, my info came from the Bible????????????????
So this info you quoted above ----Fact. The Bible was written by humans - not God.
So your Fact Did bot come From God's word -----as the word says it WAS God Inspired and it also says that NO Prophesy was Ever given by Man ------
So in Fact you are doing what blackbelt1961 stated above which is this ------ It's called Making God in our own immage , people do it every day.
The Greek word for Inspired is ---it is a pretty powerful word if you are really into finding truth ---
Strong's Concordance
theopneustos: God-breathed, i.e. inspired by God
HELPS Word-studies
2315 theópneustos (from 2316 /theós, "God" and 4154 /pnéō, "breathe out") – properly, God-breathed, referring to the divine inspiration (inbreathing) of Scripture (used only in 2 Tim 3:16).
2315 /theópneustos ("God-breathed"), likely a term coined by Paul, "expresses the sacred nature of the Scriptures (their divine origin) and their power to sanctify believers" (C. Spicq, 2, 193).
[Inbreathing (2315 /theópneustos) relates directly to God's Spirit (Gk pneuma) which can also be translated "breath."]
2 Tim 3:16: "Each-and-every (3956 /pás, singular) Scripture (Gk, singular) is God-breathed (2315 /theópneustos) and profitable for teaching, for convincing, for correction, for training in righteousness."
The singular (anarthrous) use of 3956 /pás ("all") underlines that each part of speech (every inflected word-form, "reflex") used in the Bible is God-breathed, i.e. inscripturated (written) under divine inspiration.
[G. Archer, "2315 (theópneustos) is better rendered 'breathed out by God' as the emphasis is upon the divine origin of the inscripturated revelation itself" (A Survey of OT Introduction, fn. 7, 29).]
your quote here ------We humans thrive on stories, and humans -after the crucifixion - constructed stories (the Gospels differ).
To you they maybe stories ------but for me the words are alive and active when I put my Faith in the words into the right action ------I have been doing it since 1984 when I received Jesus in my heart and I have had great results ---- I say don't change what is working so well ------
For you the Bible is just what you want it to be ----you take it and make it say and do what you want it to say and do for you----you make it in your own image and that is your right and God will still Love you even as you disbelieve His word or say it is just stories to suit your need -
As far as people saying the Bible contradicts itself and the writings are not right and the authors are not in the right place etc --etc ---etc ----for me that is Mr Satan Himself doing what he does best ---taking the focus off the truth of the word and bringing into his flock doubt and unbelief of the truth ---
So you continue on your Doubt and Unbelief path that God is Not the author of every word in Scripture---- and I will continue on my belief path putting my Faith in the Scripture that God did breath the words to the authors who wrote what they were told to write not what they themselves wanted to right ------
it comes again down to belief and unbelief of the Word ------
There ... I've been eliminated and denied again by a self made christian ... so much for encompassing the test and questions!
Join the club.
Remind me sometime to show you the Secret Handshake.
Er, my info came from the Bible????????????????
If God wrote the Bible why would God write the four gospels in different writing styles?
Even if you would allow the more accepted belief that the writers of the Bible were inspired by God - it still doesn't explain why the "facts" aren't identical.
Why does the Gospel of Mark end before the other Gospels -did Mark run out of papyrus? (Now I'm being facetious!)
I find it bewildering how you use so many question marks - yet don't ask questions of the text yourself?
*Sigh* An unexamined theology fits into the same category as an unexamined life, i.m.o.
You've used this analogy before. It was explained to you then why it doesn't hold water.because its 4 eyewitnesses of the same event, which actually gives credence to the gospels. aka Good news, that the Son of the Most Highest has Come for you and me.
Kinda like a car accident and the cops interviewing all witnesses, all see or explain in there own words, but the general outcome is exactly the same.
if all witnesses were saying the exact same thing, the cops would suspect collusion among witnesses and their truthfulness would diminish
You've used this analogy before. It was explained to you then why it doesn't hold water.
Guess what? It STILL doesn't hold water.