I am referring to the god of the Christian Bible, which I consider to be a fictional character.
The God of the Christian Bible is not the god of Christendom. Jesus himself worshipped his God whose name is YHWH. (Yahweh/ Jehovah) See Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 42:8.
Christendom worships a three headed god who can apparently be in three places at once....and talks to himself. I don't worship that god.
The ambiguity and internal contradictions I was referring to are in the scripture. It's expected that the various denominations and churches would be interpreting and presenting it differently.
So no specific ones that you can think of? You must know of some or else you would not have mentioned it....?
“in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” According to Genesis chapter 3, Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and didn’t die on that day.
This is where a knowledge of the whole Bible comes in handy. You see it is one book with one author so it answers its own questions if you just read it.
2 Peter 3:8 says..
."However, do not let this escape your notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day."
Psalm 90:4.......
"For a thousand years are in your eyes just as yesterday when it is past,
Just as a watch during the night."
Genesis 2:16-17..
."Jehovah God also gave this command to the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 17 But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.”
So a "day" to God is like a thousand years to us.....you will see in Genesis that no human lived longer than a thousand years....so, all died within God's counting of a "day".
Like the creative "days" were not 24 hour periods but covered perhaps millions of years for each "day".
Genesis 35:10 says, “thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name”
Genesis 46:2 says, “God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.”
This one is grasping at straws really.....if I changed your name to something you did not yet recognize, would you more readily answer to your new name, or your old one? The change in name was an acknowledgment that Jacob had "contended" with God by grappling with an angel all night and won. The name Israel means "Contender with God".
Since Jacobs offspring were called "the children of Israel", then the name change stood the test of time.
Can you move mountains with faith? Did Jesus return in the lifetimes of those who were promised he would?
Figuratively speaking....yes! My faith has moved mountains many times in my life. Monumental 'mountain-like' obstacles were taken out of the way, just by relying on God for the wisdom to make the right decisions. Help also came from sources I did not expect. Too many to be coincidental.
There was no global flood, the creation accounts in Genesis are both incorrect, and there was no Egyptian captivity or Exodus. That's three.
There is a thread on evidence for the global flood on RF. Did you read any of it?
The creation accounts stand up to scrutiny if you have an understanding of the original language.
And Egypt was notorious for not recording their defeats...only their victories.
"....all ancient histories were written as propaganda. This is something upon which historians and archaeologists agree. The function of ancient histories was to glorify contemporary powers, and therefore they would not record their own defeats. After all, the scribes were their employees. You see this, for example, in the following type of historical chain of events. You read in the hieroglyphs that Pharaoh X raised a great army and conquered a number of provinces, and his son Pharaoh X Jr. raised even a larger army and conquered more provinces. Then, there is a hundred year gap in the history. What happened during that 100 years? For that you have to go to the Babylonian records. That is when the Babylonians were kicking the stuffing out of the Egyptians. The Egyptians don't record that because that doesn't glorify their empire. They just leave it out."
5: Archeology by Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb
I understand that a believer often sees reality through the lens of a faith-based confirmation bias that makes these things invisible to him or her, so I don't expect such a person to agree with anything that contradicts what he or she has chosen to believe.
You don't seem to realize that the same may be said of atheists. You have your own confirmation bias. Your faith is in science....my faith is in the Creator of science.
But these things are plainly visible to the skeptic, who has no need to rectify the errors..
Again, the same applies to us.....we see the flaws in your arguments just as clearly as you see the flaws in ours......we choose which team we barrack for.....so may the best team win.
The prize is everlasting life in the most perfect surroundings.....what have you got to look forward to?
