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Originally posted by Ace@Jun 14 2005, 03:09 PM
The one excuse I hear the most is that "bla bla bla, just cause they believe some book"
There are Christians who are intellectual, and are able to read the Bible and see the truth in it and believe it. God has given us an avenue to have confidence in the word through fulfilled prophecies. Accurate predictions
You can always come against Christians by saying they believe the writings of a book. <--- Yes this is true, God says it is by faith, and every true Christian is saved that way. Ephesians 2:8. But the beauty is it is not blind faith as the bible gives plenty of historically accurate evidence that it is truth.
Also please do not use the OT Differs from NT excuse without first studying them. It is ignorant to knock the book down when you havent taken the time to understand what it says. You must have some basic understanding of an area before you come against it.
(I too avoid these discussions, as it becomes a flame fest -- but i had to speak against the "just a book" argument)
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I must admit that I didn't dig too deep into that Bible Desk website but early on I saw a couple instances I don't know, corrobaration or "facts" that basically work this way...
What the Bible says is true. How do we know this? Because it says it in the Bible.
It's not a very well laid out website so why don't you give us one thing that the Bible prophecied that has come true. I noticed a few references to basically the end of the world coming pretty soon. Do you believe that? What about the ark?
Oh and also I know it sounds dismissive when some people say "it's just a book" but don't forget that for an awful lot of people it is just a book so they refer to it that way. I don't think it's meant to be insulting. I think it's a book so I'm not going to refer to it as something I don't think it is.