Did not know that…i just remember growing up and school was teaching us the brontosaurus was the largest…i had the little dinosaur toys and brontosaurus was my favorite
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And Stegosaurus and Triceratops were his ugly buddies, all trying to stay clear of T-Rex.
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I am in way over my head. I didn’t post that 1 minute before I remembered the majestic Brachiosaurus that is also a sauropod. So, who knows how many types of sauropods there were?
More to the point of this thread:
I know I am posting a lot of Dan here but he is probably the most public facing Bible scholar today (followed by Pete Enns). He makes good points here RE: inconsistencies and univocality.
Absence of faith is not a faith.
Not the point of the post. The point is you should continuously question your belief system (or lack there of).
Dan just makes declarations. But for the most part he and I agree. If the reader is not led by the Holy Spirit, the Bible is no more than any other book. For the most part it looks like 66 disjointed books.
The Bible is one of the ways God has fellowship with man. Clearly Dan has no fellowship with God using the Bible.
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I agree. Mark 9:24, “…Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
If you don’t have faith, what is there to continuously question? It’s not as if the arguments for the existence of God have changed in 2,000 years. There hasn’t been any new evidence.
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Or informed posts based on his knowledge of linguistics and years of study of the Bible.
Maybe
Everybody believes in something or has something that informs their worldview. This worldview should be constantly evaluated.
Makes me think if Dan McClellan ever wondered if Jesus was talking to him in this passage:
Matthew 13:13 “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”
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Food for thought for anyone interested
I think most of the people who push inerrancy with the Bible confuse it with the inerrancy of God. The idea is that the writers of scripture were doing dictation from God so scripture can’t contain errors. I would ask, who wrote the edition of the Bible you are reading? Unless we have the original manuscripts we can’t be sure what we currently have is 100% accurate. I agree that meaning is more important than accuracy. And when you add in that a good amount of what’s in the Bible is allegorical, accuracy is irrelevant.
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Pete Enns has some great books and commentary on the Bible. Actual study of the text versus regurgitating dogma.
Imagine actually believing that there’s some magical man in the sky well past 30 years old?
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Imagine joining a forum 30 minutes ago to post that. Let the trolling begin.
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Imagine your reaction during the seven year tribulation period
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