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I know what you mean. I am always looking to understand views that oppose mine. I recently got a book out of the library about Judaism. I wanted to better understand how they view the messiah and how they believe people go to Heaven and a bunch of other stuff. While I disagree with the positions in the book (or at least on stuff that isn't common ground. The common ground stuff is obviously good) I am happy that I better understand them.
I heard an interview with a man who wrote a book saying that the Gospels contradicted themselves. The example he gave could have been figured out with the slightest bit of research. I mean it's easy to look at something in the Bible in isolation and say that it does make sense, but I suggest before one starts publishing books on why it doesn't make sense they should find out what the leading scholars say about it. I mean, obviously fish were not killed in the flood. But that doesn't make the story any less true. Like what were they thinking it should say "All the living creatures were killed in the flood except of course for the fish who obviously cannot die from too much water."??? I mean often with verses like that you do your research and find out that in Hebrew fish aren't counted as "creatures" or something. We forget that things don't always translate perfectly and that's not the fault of the translaters but rather of the languages. I mean modern Jews don't count fish as meat, why would we just assume that the Isrealites counted fish as creatures????
You know, I was on an atheist site once and there was a reference to a verse in Luke that they said was proof that Jesus didnt' know that he was going to die. When I looked it up it said that the disciples didn't know that Jesus would rise again. Seriously!
I heard an interview with a man who wrote a book saying that the Gospels contradicted themselves. The example he gave could have been figured out with the slightest bit of research. I mean it's easy to look at something in the Bible in isolation and say that it does make sense, but I suggest before one starts publishing books on why it doesn't make sense they should find out what the leading scholars say about it. I mean, obviously fish were not killed in the flood. But that doesn't make the story any less true. Like what were they thinking it should say "All the living creatures were killed in the flood except of course for the fish who obviously cannot die from too much water."??? I mean often with verses like that you do your research and find out that in Hebrew fish aren't counted as "creatures" or something. We forget that things don't always translate perfectly and that's not the fault of the translaters but rather of the languages. I mean modern Jews don't count fish as meat, why would we just assume that the Isrealites counted fish as creatures????
You know, I was on an atheist site once and there was a reference to a verse in Luke that they said was proof that Jesus didnt' know that he was going to die. When I looked it up it said that the disciples didn't know that Jesus would rise again. Seriously!