Thus, it follows that what is an apparent contradiction to us may not be to the God who created everything and exists not in just a 3 or 4 dimensional existence like we do.
My only experience is with the world I inhabit, and the people and things in it--in other words the events in my experience. The bible is not in another dimension. It is here in your experiential field. I treat it like any other book, bible, object or event. I examine it with the laws of logic which have proven pertinent to our existence here. The bible is full of contradictions. Unless you are some other being in some other dimension, I cannot otherwise grasp the reason why you would qualify the bible in a different manner than you do any other books full of contradictions. Are you using the FACT of contradictions to somehow presume mystical relevance? If that is the case, I can direct you to a few thousand other absurd stories and myths.
When a witness contradicts himself on the stand--do we attempt to make a case that he is inspired by some supernatural spirit who thinks illogically?? For what reason would we set our imagination to such a course??
If the bible was the only illogical and contradictory example in our universe, I might find the point worthy of examination. But it is not. In the only universe that you and I know and experience, a contradiction means that at least one of the assertions is false--either knowingly so, or unknowingly--either a mistake or a lie. So the point is simply this: When one comes across lies or mistakes in a book claiming perfect authorship, does one exalt it?? If we did this in our daily affairs we would be fleecing and fooling ourselves. Nothing would be a bargain: not your husband, not your grocery bill, not your medical care. Indeed, it would be totally insane--and the human race would be extinct in very short order. |
