Your example does not even addresses the first sentence, but yet you seem to think you did address it, and based on your conclusions drawn from your non-existent retort, the second sentence must also be false!
Your post is just another venomous attack based on information gathered from a hodgepodge of websites that make outrageous statements based on only a cursory examination of the evidence.
For example, the one you cited on the ants which used the male form to describe the ant that carries the grains. This is a perfect example of the lack of care used in the web sites you use for your sources.
Jacob was following an order from an Angel of God. Genesis 31:10-13. If you want to say that the Bible can not be true because there is no such thing as supernatural power, then the debate is changed to a discussion of the possibility of miracles.
I am sure you could go on and on. And the only point you would successfully be able to show is that you are a follower of scientism. This is exemplified by your statement ...in a pre-scientific age, so it has to be wrong.
Another example of the knowledge of gender seen all through the Scripture: Proverbs 30:28.
Your opinion on the Bible is duly noted. Here are other's opinions:
Abraham Lincoln: "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."
Napolean: "The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it."
Daniel Webster: "If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."
Horace Greeley: "It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."
Andrew Jackson: "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."
Lord Tennyson: "Bible reading is an education in itself."
Immanuel Kant: "The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."
Charles Dickens: "The NEw Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known to the world."
Sir Isaac Newton: "There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history."
Goethe: "Let any mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in ever greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires; beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the gospels, it will not go."
The Bible is consistent. The three basic thoughts of the Old Testament
1. God's promise to Abraham
That in His Seed All Nations should be Blessed.
God founded the Hebrew Nation for the specific purpose of making it a Messianic Nation to the World, that is, a nation through which Great Blessings would come to All Nations.
2. God's covenant with the Hebrew Nation:
That, if they would Faithfully Serve Him,
they would prosper as a nation:
That, if they Forsook Him, and served Idols,
they would be destroyed as a nation.
All nations worshiped Idols. There were gods everywhere: gods of the sky, gods of the earth, gods of the sea, gods of the land, gods of the cities, gods of the country, gods of the mountains, gods of the valleys, male gods, female gods, familes of gods.
The Old Testament is an account of God's age-long effort to establish, in a world of Idol-Worshiping nations, the IDEA that there is ONE GOD by Building a NATION around the IDEA.
3. God's promise to David:
That His Family should reign over God's People Forever.
When God's Nation became a Great Nation, God chose One Family in the nation, the Family of David, and began to build around that Family His Promises, that, out of That Family there would come OneGreat King, who would Himself personally Live Forever, and establish a Universal Kingdom of Endless Duration. |
