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Am I a bigot?

I grew up in a very religious family. I am no longer a part of that tradition. I was born with a prefrontal cortex and began to question everything as a young person.
I went through a complete deconstruction the Christian experience and discovered that there were many inconsistencies that I could not reconcile.

Faith is a fools errand. If you choose that path, then so be it. I see all religions as a bit of a crutch.
I won’t change and your replies about “truth” are meaningless.

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LadyGrace

Here's my thoughts on this subject, and I'm not trying, nor wanting, to be condescending, okay?

I believe man creates problems for himself, when he assumes God's Word is flawed. The only thing flawed, is the unbeliever's interpretation of it. There's no way he can decipher it's true meaning, without the Holy Spirit. He'll get it wrong every time. God's word says in order to interpret scripture and understand it, one must receive the Holy Spirit, through salvation.

There's a way that "seems" right to man, but the end thereof, is death. Both physical and spiritual death, without Jesus as Savior. That's what God said in His Word. There are [i]many[/i] things the unbeliever just doesn't and can't understand, nor even know what to consider, when reading the Word of God. Things may [u]appear[/u] contradictory, but with careful bible study, they are found not to be contradictory at all.

1 Corinthians 1:18-31
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God."

One must consider the context it was written in, the writers of the Bible spanned centuries, lived in different times and places, faced different circumstances (personal and political), and responded to those circumstances from the point of view of their settings in life. A book that brings all of this under one cover is, of course, going to exhibit a lot of [i]diversity[/i].

What are referred to as “contradictions” are only so, if one assumes that the purpose of inspiration is to align or override the down-to-earth diverse voices we actually encounter in the Bible.

Inspiration is a matter of faith, and no matter how fervently it is believed, that doesn’t mean it is [i]comprehended[/i]. The Bible we have, is a diverse and complex literary product, not reflecting consistently, just one point of view. We can, and should say, that inspiration, must include in its definition, the notion that the Bible was written and then edited by people living in, and reflecting, their particular time and place.

Modern archaeology has helped us realize that the Bible is historically accurate, even in the smallest of details. There have been thousands of archaeological discoveries in the past century, that support every book of the Bible. The biblical manuscripts have been reliably transmitted from the authors, to us today. How do we know? The message of salvation in the Bible, which is most important to know, has not changed through the centuries, and the remaining text has remained in perfect harmony through the ages. In fact, the Bible is the only Book that tells our future with 100% accuracy, and has fulfilled all prophecies, to date! But I'm not going to do all the work for people. I have spent countless hours studying the Bible, learning so much from it, and I expect others can, and should, do the same, as my eyes just are not good enough anymore, to do the work for them. I can barely see. Careful study will show that what I have said is true. Thank you.

Mbingh01 · 61-69, F

I will live my life believing there is a loving God. I’m not perfect by no means, but I believe with all my heart and soul that when I die, I will be reunited with my God. You are free to choose your path and believe what you want. Just stating my beliefs.

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BibleData · M

@Mbingh01 So, you're with your God now and after you die you will be with him/her again. What's the point in that excursion?

BibleData · M

@SW-User [quote]know is the wrong word.[/quote]

How do you know it's the wrong word?

SW-User

@BibleData don’t play with me..

She used the correct word in the previous sentence.
Faith and knowledge are not the same.

Adstar · 56-60, M

You are proud.. Thats what lis leading you to your destruction..

Pride makes you trust in your own reasoning.. So when your limited human reasoning cannot figure something out you decare it a contradiction.. Your pride stops you from realizing that your mind is not all knowing and that you are a very limited being..

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Adstar · 56-60, M

@SW-User Said what?

SW-User

@Adstar the pride business. Which is wrong, but you like saying it. I do enjoy reading your smug assessments though.

Adstar · 56-60, M

@SW-User They where different.. 1 was telling you where proud.. 2 was telling you why i was telling you that you are proud.. Different points... That went over your head, You could not tell the difference..

BibleData · M

Bigot: a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Do you do that?

I've found that people who say they question everything don't. But that doesn't really matter. If you no longer what to be a part of a tradition you don't need a reason for that.

People who say faith is a fool's errand are just making excuses or ignorant of what faith is, but that doesn't really matter either since you don't need a reason. Just stop making them up and trying to rationalize or justify your decision. It kind of makes you look silly.

SW-User

@BibleData

Let’s start with what I grew up hearing.

Hebrews 11:1 KJV

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

The chapter references many events that are questionable in their validity.

Enoch, pleased God, in my experience…the least talked about character in the Bible.
He was better than Jesus. How ?
Why didn’t god leave the rubric that he used for Enoch?

Faith keeps people in line and not thinking too much.

The definition you used for bigot, is the description of Saul/Paul.

If he can do it, so can anyone else. If street preachers can spread hate I can spread reason.

I could go on…but at this point, you look silly enough.

Be well and don’t come back.

NickiHijab · F

Bigot towards what exactly?

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SW-User

In replication of study results I trust.

Yes, atheism , depending on the nutter, does tilt into the “gotta have faith” camp.

Nothing is certain, Hawking acknowledged a creative force.

The reality is nobody knows…
That includes you.

No, I don’t see it as a safe bet to play a game to go heaven.

BibleData · M

@SW-User [quote]In replication of study results I trust.

Yes, atheism , depending on the nutter, does tilt into the “gotta have faith” camp.[/quote]

What is it with unbelievers and failed Christians? Darwin, Dawkins, Barker . . .

[b]Playing Around With Barker's Easter Challenge Way Back[/b]

1. Matthew was the only one to mention dead people emerging from their graves upon Jesus' death. It is assumed that these resurrected dead were walking around.

The omission of the dead people emerging from the graves by the other writers does not, of course, mean anything. Matthew
was the first gospel to be written. In De viris inlustribus (Concerning Illustrious Men), chapter III, Jerome says: "Matthew, who is also Levi, and who from a publican came to be an apostle, first of all composed a Gospel of Christ in Judaea in the Hebrew language and characters for the benefit of those of the circumcision who had believed." So this (Matthew having been the first gospel) might be a reason for the others having not included the dead people emerging from their graves.

Any serious scholar of the Bible could tell you that at Matthew 27:52-53 the Greek egeiro means simply raised up rather than
resurrected back to life, and in addition to this "they" (meaning the bodies that were walking around) is a pronoun, and in Greek all pronouns have gender and "they" is masculine whereas bodies" (the bodies that were lifted up) is in the neuter. They are not the same.

Adam Clarke: "It is difficult to account for the transaction mentioned in verses 52 and 53. Some have thought that these two verses have been introduced into the text of Matthew from the gospel of the Nazarenes, others think the simple meaning is this: - by the earthquake several bodies that had been buried were thrown up and exposed to view, and continued above ground till after Christ's resurrection, and were seen by many persons in the city."

Theobald Daechsel's translation: "And tombs opened up, and many corpses of saints laying at rest were lifted up."

Johannes Greber's translation: "Tombs were laid open, and many bodies of those buried there were tossed upright. In this posture
they projected from the graves and were seen by many who passed by the place on their way back to the city."

2. At Matthew 28:2 there was an "earthquake" and an angel rolled back
the stone slab that closed the tomb off. The other gospel writers don't
mention this. Some Bible defenders suggest past perfect, but as the
author points out the passage is in the aorist (past) tense.

The Greek word seismos means quaking, shaking or
trembling. (Matthew 27:51, 54; 28:4; Revelation 6:13) The earth quaking
from the moving of a
rather large stone, for example, might have been trivial enough for some
not to mention it.

A Grammar of New Testament Greek, by James H. Moulton,
Vol. I, 1908, p. 109, "the Aorist has a 'punctiliar' action, that is,
it
regards action as a point: it represents the point of entrance . . . or
that of completion . . . or it looks at a whole action simply as having
occurred,
without distinguishing any steps in its progress."

Aorist is a peculiar tense in the koiné Greek which
means "not bounded" as to time. Verbs in the aorist tense can be
rendered in a
variety of ways depending upon the context. They could mark a definite
occurrence of something at an unstated time in the past, such as with
Matthew 28:2. An
example of a similar case would be in Matthew 17:3 where the voice
announced that the son had been approved. Many translations often miss
the exact meaning of
texts where the aorist tense is used. Matthew, understood correctly,
indicates that the stone had been rolled back before the women arrived,
he only mentioned
that the stone had been moved and how it was moved whereas the other gospel writers do not.

[quote]Nothing is certain, Hawking acknowledged a creative force.

The reality is nobody knows…
That includes you.[/quote]

Yeah, but Hawking only had an uneducated guess. I have documentation.

SW-User

@BibleData

You wrote words…

Faith😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Bye, no really

calicuz · 51-55, M

No, that's not bigotry.

LordShadowfire ·

My friend, your family tried to help you to see the truth of God's creation. I fear that rejecting it might mean that you are beyond all hope, but I'm still going to reach out to you one final time. Won't you please allow God to enter your life? Get on your knees, close your eyes, open your mouth, and ask Jesus to enter your heart. You've got a God-shaped hole that needs filling.

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LordShadowfire ·

@SW-User I don't know what you're talking about, friend. All I'm asking is that you follow my example. As of today, April 1st, 2023, I have surrendered my life to Jesus Christ. I have allowed him to penetrate me and fill me up.

SW-User

@LordShadowfire are you in jail?

LordShadowfire ·

@SW-User Lol, no

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