I hate inconsistency

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

One of the reasons I'm a Christian is that the Bible is 100% the most consistent document I've ever read. Scientists and atheists spent years trying to find a single flaw and they cannot. This internal consistency is unprecedented and yet scientists and atheists scoff that this fact is just entertaining trivia and should not be taken seriously. In the same breath, however, they point to the internal consistency of their science models and we are supposed to coo and ahh as if this was the highest priority of Man.

And furthermore, when there is even a hint of an inconsistency in the Bible - which there isn't - they mock us and scorn us mercilessly online. Those same loud voices turn their heads and bray with pleasure, nay delight, when somebody finds an inconsistency in their models.

Well let me tell you, friends, as one who has put in the hours undercover to get a PhD doctorate degree: they have a conspiracy. Behind closed doors they do unspeakable things to the Bible, they blaspheme against the Holy Ghost and... so much mixed cloth you have no idea. They have absolutely zero clue about dressing. Anyway my point, I mean the point. The point is their rules are inconsistent. And I hate that.

[Didymus Much]

Re: I hate inconsistency

Aww, did someone get their research funding application rejected again?

[Dennis Lukes]

Re: I hate inconsistency

God put the appearance of inconsistencies in the Bible to test our faith. When you are blessed with His grace, you know that the Word is inerrant. It only looks like there are a bunch of plot holes, continuity errors, and just multiple blatantly mutually exclusive accounts of the same event if you're reading the Bible as an unwashed sinner.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: I hate inconsistency

God put the appearance of inconsistencies in the Bible to test our faith. When you are blessed with His grace, you know that the Word is inerrant. It only looks like there are a bunch of plot holes, continuity errors, and just multiple blatantly mutually exclusive accounts of the same event if you're reading the Bible as an unwashed sinner.

Thank you Brother, this is a way forward. I'm afraid I was stuck in my rage. I'm going to start doing what scientists do and regard inconsistencies in the Bible as evidence of the breakdown of physics.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: I hate inconsistency

I like the way God did His math. He created the universe in seven days. That became our week. There are 52 weeks in a year, four seasons and so on. How could any scientist design the passage of time better? It's not just right, it's precisely right.

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: I hate inconsistency

the Bible is 100% the most consistent document I've ever read

I could not agree more although I have to admit it helps that the Bible is also the only book I ever read. Why there are more books beyond the Bible I will never understand.

[Dennis Lukes]

Re: I hate inconsistency

I could not agree more although I have to admit it helps that the Bible is also the only book I ever read. Why there are more books beyond the Bible I will never understand.

The Bible consists of multiple books. The Book of Genesis, the Book of Exodus, and so on up to the Book of Revelation. God was a prolific author and the Bible is His collected literary works.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: I hate inconsistency

Aww, did someone get their research funding application rejected again?

I suppose you think that's funny. Mocking a True Christian (n/a to mormons, catholics, unitarians, assorted orthodox heresies of which there's so many I've lost count, copts, Moravian brethren and whatever they do in The Outer Hebrides) is not the way forward in your journey.

Well let me tell you, friends, as one who has put in the hours undercover to get a PhD doctorate degree: they have a conspiracy.

What about a comparative study of differences between bona fide communications from God in The Bible and other texts such as the koran/upanishads/Vedic hymns and so on? That could be written up very well as a thesis and open the way for future research. And books. Prime time documentaries. Arduous foreign travel selflessly undertaken: how are these questions addressed in Tahiti? Bermuda? Rio de Janeiro? Sydney? Tokyo or in the Japanese countryside? Swiss Alps and the Eastern Pyrenees? We already know what happens in Riyadh so there's no point going there but I'd be interested to learn more about the Persian city of Shiraz.

In Christ.