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To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl; metmom; RnMomof7; wmfights; HarleyD; Gamecock; 1000 silverlings; ...
To me, the Bible was always something written by humans moved by their faith and devotion to God, and not something God wrote using someone's hands. That's not what inspiration means.

"Inspired by God" doesn't mean God was a cheerleader for the writers of Scripture. It means the word of God was authored by God. Two thousand years of Christianity states that fact to be true.

As a practicing Christian I did believe in the resurrection and Incarnation as literal and true events, because that's something I was taught as far back as I can remember.

But that's something you say you don't believe now. Was your former church in error?

Such things just don't happen in the real (observable) world, so doubt is not baseless.

Hundreds of witnesses say otherwise.

Doubt is always an unruly companion of faith. It's impossible to eradicate it from our lives. Our faith is not perfect.

But that's all the more reason we need to return to the Scripture and rely on His promises.

"When we render to the word of God less honour than is due to it, there steals upon us, without our knowledge, a growing obstinacy, which brings along with it a contempt of the word of God, and makes us lose all reverence for it." -- Calvin, John II.275

1,978 posted on 01/29/2011 11:44:33 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Alamo-Girl; metmom; RnMomof7; wmfights; HarleyD; Gamecock; 1000 silverlings
"Inspired by God" doesn't mean God was a cheerleader for the writers of Scripture. It means the word of God was authored by God

Inspired by God refers to the human author being motivated and moved to write about his faith, not the divine authoring of the book.

Two thousand years of Christianity states that fact to be true.

Other religions have been around for just as long.. Longevity is not a measure of truth.

But that's something you say you don't believe now. Was your former church in error?

I said I don't know. To me it is not real.

Hundreds of witnesses say otherwise

Thousands of witnesses "saw" the sun "dancing" and "falling" towards earth in Fatima in 1917. It never happened.

1,996 posted on 01/30/2011 12:45:00 AM PST by kosta50 (Pagan prayer to Mithra: "give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again")
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It means the word of God was authored by God.

So, are you pre-trib or post-trib?
2,002 posted on 01/30/2011 12:56:28 AM PST by Cronos
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