A SKEPTIC SAYS THE BIBLE IS FULL OF ERRORS
QUESTION? / COMMENT!
Terry and Jesse, I don’t believe in Jesus, the bible is full of errors and science is the only foundation of truth, and you should quit preaching lies!
ANSWER! / COMMENT!
Mike, that works for me, this is a big country and we can coexist in harmony and believe entirely different things. If you want a good book to examine the claims of Christianity, the Bible, Jesus et al issues that you object to here are some sources:
1) Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
2) More Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
3) Handbook of Christian Apologetics by Peter Kreeft & Ronald Tacelli.
4) Testimony of the Evangelists (The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence) by Simon Greenleaf (founder of first Dean of Harvard Law School).
Regarding the Bible and its difficulties I would recommend:
1) Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties by Gleason Archer.
2) When Critics Ask (a Popular Handbook of Bible Difficulties) by Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe.
3) Hard Sayings – a Catholic approach to answering Bible Difficulties by Trent Horn.
If you want to see the way the Bible has been revered as the Word of God by virtually every President and Statesman since George Washington get:
1) America's God and Country (Encyclopedia of Bible Quotations from Founding Fathers, Presidents, Statesmen, Scientists, Constitutions, Court Decisions) by William J. Federer.
2) According to the Guiness Book of World Records the Bible is the best selling book every year since the invention of the printing press.
It pains me to see that never has there been such a time where there is access to so much information and yet there exists so much ignorance.
Genesis 1:2-3 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Way back in 1968, at Christmas time, the astronauts of Apollo 8 hung in space somewhere between earth and the moon. On Christmas Eve, Commander Frank Borman made a broadcast back to earth in which he read the verses above. They trained the camera on the earth and it showed a small blue and white ball hanging over an infinite abyss of nothing. Everything we have ever known and loved, all the people who ever lived (including our Lord himself), all the things that ever happened that really matter to us, everything that will happen in the lives of you and me, were back there on this small little ball. Some people felt this made the earth "insignificant" since it is just a speck in that ocean of space. But the earth is small, not like a squashable bug is small, but like home is small. Earth is an intimate place and the light God sends to shine on it is ordinary, like daylight, not exotic, like "stellar radiation." St. Paul understood this and recognized God, the author of plain light, wherever he saw him. That was why he told the Corinthians, "It is the God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6). Let that light shine in and through you today too.
*Our coins say it all; IN GOD WE TRUST (this is faith in the Judeo-Christian God of the Holy Bible), LIBERTY (versus dictators, bondage and slavery of which half of the world is presently under), E PLURIBUS UNUM which means from many one (this is opposed to multiculturalism which is defined as from one – many).
We believe in a democracy which is of the people, by the people and for the people - this is the great gift of Judeo-Christianity. However, the United States is a constitutional republic. This means it is a form of government in which the country's powers are limited by a constitution, and the officials are elected by the citizens to represent their interests. The U.S. Constitution establishes the framework for the federal government and guarantees certain rights and freedoms for its citizens.
No need to respond, I wish I could loan you the above books in my shelf but obtaining them yourself would make you appreciate the plethora of information you will find contained therein.
Mike, if I die and there is not a God, I will never know that you were right, but if you die and there is a God who has a Son called Jesus, you will know that I was right for all eternity. Are we just a collection of cells and molecules that coincidentally came together? It takes more faith to believe in this fairytale than it takes to believe in a supernatural being called God who created us, for “a man who does not believe in God will believe in anything” [G.K. Chesterton].
Dr Rizzo (A Catholic Scientist) who has the following website [https://www.iapweb.org/] wrote a book called; "The Science Before Science." He argues that faith and reason (science) are in harmony because both come from the One God of faith and science. He teaches at an Ivy League University and is a Harvard PHD, check out what he has to say. Speaking of Harvard, in the book OUR NATIONS GODLY HERITAGE: The Founding Fathers placed a strong priority on higher education with the Bible as the cornerstone. On September 26, 1642 the guidelines that would govern Harvard University, our nation's first college, were established. They read, in part, "Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3), and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3)."
The motto of Harvard was Christi Gloriam (Christ be glorified) and the college was later dedicated Christo et Ecclesiae (for Christ and for the Church). The founders of Harvard believed that "All knowledge without Christ was vain." God Bless you and may the Lord Jesus Christ enlighten both of us as we continue in our respective journeys.