Dan,
<<.. tell me what that would look like Mark.>>
I'm not sure I follow you on this one. What do you mean?
<<But the answer here is Mark, that IF a man is doing the WILL OF GOD then it is not a matter of who we think "wants" to be the "rock" as you put it, God has already made that decision for us>>
Then the answer becomes, "because it says so". Can you understand why a person who is a non-believer would look at that and say, "that's not good enough". If you take a situation that on the surface looks like chauvinism(sp?)(when you a deny a women basic rights for no other reason than gender, that is chauvinism)and have no other reason to explain it besides, "it says so", a non-believer will just look at it
and say that he doesn't believe that God denys any human basic rights.
Now, I am not saying that chauvinism is or is not the case here. I am saying that based on the question I asked, the typical non believer would not be satis fied with that answer. Again, that doesn't mean that anyone is more right or wrong, just that this question is representative of one that keeps some people from believing in literal
translation. I KNOW that it keeps many women from believing in literal translation, and keeps some from christianity as a whole.
Mark |
