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I would like to ask you a difficult bible question mr. Preacher man… please respond timely and in writing and if you would like to make a video response for me to view, do so and post the link as a response to this comment, please.
So, I am a skeptic and critic who enjoys challenging irrational beliefs wherever I might encounter them. I believe an enlightened and rational world is a peaceful one, but maybe I am wrong, I suppose as long as religions (especially abrahamic religions) exist, we will never have a truly enlightened and rational world. One of the most irrational claims I have ever encountered is the unwavering belief that Christians from all denominations hold that the christian bible is literally the "word of God".
The most absurd aspect of this statement is probably the most obvious, the fact that it was written, compiled and translated by human beings. Nevermind the fact that there is no observable evidence that the christian concept of God has any basis in reality. However, for the sake of hypotheticals, I am willing to make a few concessions in order to ask you my very important question.
1) Let's assume that God is real.
2) The Christian Bible indeed contains the words of God.
Obviously, not all words in the bible are the words of God, after all, God would have to be a clinical schizophrenic to say himself, "then the word of the lord came to me saying" followed by words spoken clearly by an entity other than the one making the introduction. If I am to concede that the Bible indeed contains the words of God, you must also be willing to concede that not all words in the bible have come from God, there are also human words mixed in.
If some words in the bible are actually God's words but not all words are God's words, how do we fairly distinguish which words are God's words and which words are not?
3) My 3rd consession is to accept that those words which are clearly identified in the text as the words of God (i.e. the quote following "God said…") are indeed the words of God in the Bible, meanwhile, all those words which are not clearly identified as such are the mixed in words of humans. Is that fair?
Ok, now that I have made these very generous concessions, here comes my real difficult question…
Now that we have determined that the Bible indeed contains the words of God mixed in among words of men and now that we have agreed that those sections identified as God actually speaking are those words of God, if we go through the entire bible from cover to cover and highlight all of the sections where God rather than men is speaking, then we lay each individual book of the bible out in its own place on a table and then start putting the books back together ordered first with the book containing the highest percentage of highlighted text in descending order and then after the book with the lowest percentage greater than 0% is added to the compilation, the remaining books are clustered together and joined to the compilation in a special section labeled "appendix". How many books will there be in that appendix, what would those books be and why is it that throughout all denominations of the christian religions, these are the books that are by far the most crucial parts of the bible from which all of christianity bases and derives its fundamental beliefs and meanwhile those books which would actually be closest to the top cover are most commonly those same books that Christians are very quick to point out no longer apply, thanks to the doctrines founded in those books found in the appendix?
Can you see ANYTHING wrong with that picture?🤔🤔
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Prayer doesn't work. It's been tested. Christian Europe has endured many deadly pandemics when it had the most devout, pious, and servile followers in the history of Christendom, and their prayers were not answered. Many millions were killed, and virtually everyone was praying.
Prayer works at the same rate as chance.
Thank you Pastor Batchelor for letting God use you!!! I needed to hear this sermon! May you and your family continue to be blessed by God!!!