If we can't trust the Bible and what it says then we can't trust anything. It is not contradictory. God meant for us to take the Bible and all its contents seriously. We just can't pick and choose which we'lll believe.
@LadyGrace I do think it’s true that everything isn’t literal, though. The Holy Spirit will help us understand meaning behind certain things written in the Bible. For example, the strangeness prophets like Isaiah talk about. I need study Bibles for that one because I don’t get what he means. There are things he described that are definitely not literal.
@Colonelmustardseed There's a big difference between trusting everything the Bible says and taking things out of context. Naturally, if we see a poem or a parable for example, or a metaphor, we know those aren't taken literally. There's a difference difference between those and the verses we can live by. What I'm trying to say is that God meant for us to take His Word seriously and to believe and trust everything in it. The scriptures say that God's word is God-breathed by the Holy Spirit. That means what God said in His Word are the truths he wants us to live by, and they can all be trusted. We just can't pick and choose which verses we will believe, in other words, because if we can't believe the whole of God's Word, we can't believe any of it.
@Axeroberts [b][quote]yes and just because a person follows this written word exactly doesn't mean they have it in their heart[/quote][/b]
Well that's odd. I don't know who would follow God's Word exactly, if it wasn't in their heart. That makes no sense at all. That's not really what people do. Now you might have someone that claims to be a follower of Christ, but for some reason might fake it, and in that case, they certainly will not devote their life to Christ. They will only be able to put up that facade for a short time, and then they'll go right back to their old life.
@Axeroberts That still doesn't mean God's Word can't be trusted. If we can't trust the whole of God's Word and Himself to be truth and trustworthy, then we have nothing.
@SW-User Baloney. If there's any error it's on the part of man trying to falsely interpret, change, and contradict God's Word.
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@LadyGrace Like it or not, it's true. It's not my fault that you blindly accept the "Word" of what is nothing more than an edited book written by hundreds of different people, each with their own agenda.
