...bible may not be true? I've met christians who LITERALLY manifest no capacity to understand that the bible may not be true.
They just don't seem to have the capacity to accept such a notion.
It's like asking me to imagine life as a rabbit. I LITERALLY cannot comprehend such a notion.
To them, it is as true as anything.
It is impossible to have a logical conversation with these people.
I use to love talking to my priest before he passed away. He was so educated and learned that I was always impressed with him (former doctor). He could accept the notion that he may be wrong, ceding that is is human and he is consequently fallible, but that he had faith in his convictions.
I remember once we had a debate, if you'd like to call it that, were I as an atheist argue for the existence of god and him against. Granted, he didn't really go all out, but he did bring up biblical inerrancies (which he blamed on man, not god). It was a mental exercise mutually possible because we could both accept that we are fallible beings and we may be wrong.
Many christians I meet lack this capacity entirely -- but that may just be a bad batch. Who knows.
So, have you ever met christians who LITERALLY cannot comprehend the notion that the bible may not be true?
They just don't seem to have the capacity to accept such a notion.
It's like asking me to imagine life as a rabbit. I LITERALLY cannot comprehend such a notion.
To them, it is as true as anything.
It is impossible to have a logical conversation with these people.
I use to love talking to my priest before he passed away. He was so educated and learned that I was always impressed with him (former doctor). He could accept the notion that he may be wrong, ceding that is is human and he is consequently fallible, but that he had faith in his convictions.
I remember once we had a debate, if you'd like to call it that, were I as an atheist argue for the existence of god and him against. Granted, he didn't really go all out, but he did bring up biblical inerrancies (which he blamed on man, not god). It was a mental exercise mutually possible because we could both accept that we are fallible beings and we may be wrong.
Many christians I meet lack this capacity entirely -- but that may just be a bad batch. Who knows.
So, have you ever met christians who LITERALLY cannot comprehend the notion that the bible may not be true?