Posted by Kinsman [TG] on April 02, 1999 at 08:20:05 {ppHCdFLRUMfp06cXfsfIqXkUpQVXdM}:
In Reply to: *******Memorial questions, pls answer posted by Gary on April 02, 1999 at 07:34:10:
: You Wrote: So how are you dealing with these Biblical issues? Most witnesses I talk to run away screaming when confronted with this information. Maybe you can explain how you personally are dealing with this.
All these biblical contradictions and countless others are simply explained by putting the scriptures within their proper context. Our sacred scriptures are written traditions authored by �many� ancient ancestors across millennia�s of time. Believe it or not, oral and written traditions do change and evolve. Different authors (even those who were contemporaries) held different interpretations and viewpoints. THIS IS NORMAL, GET OVER IT!
It seems the only ones who really have serious problems with the issues raised on this thread and the countless other so called scriptural problems are those �God Breathed Literalists� who debate their own interpretations as if THEY were also are �God Breathed�. In doing this it seems they miss the whole message of value (I.e., the lessons of humanity) that these wonderful written traditions holdout for us �thus missing their entire point of love and tolerance.
Does my brother disagree with me? Let him not quarrel about words, and let him "avoid godless chatter" (2 Tim. 2:14,16). Does a fellow disciple hold a differing view of the incarnation? "This is the spirit of antichrist" (1 John 4:3). Do any Christians accept the Protestant view of justification? "They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord" (Jude 1:4). Do any Christians reject it? "You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace" (Gal. 5:4). Do any Christians disagree with my eschatology? "They have wandered away from the truth" (2 Tim. 2:18). Does anyone in the church eat unclean foods? "Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things" (Phil. 3:19). Does anyone forbid the eating of such foods? They are bound to "the basic principles of this world...'Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch,'" (Col. 2:20,21). Basically, if anyone disagrees with my interpretations, they are destined to "perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved"
Certainly there are plenty of scriptural anathemas for everyone to throw around and it�s an unimportant game so easily played. What the vast majority of Christian�s need to do �is �.GROW UP!
Regards - Kinsman