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6.26.2022

Error in the Bible?

People knowledgeable of manuscript issues who mock the King James Version believe that the Bible has error in it.

They don't believe in supernatural preservation or any role of the Holy Spirit in shepherding the actual words of the Bible into time and history and into a person's actual hands without error. 

They believe the Bible requires scholars like them to determine what is error and what is not error in the Bible. This is of necessity an ongoing, neverending process. 

They even believe there is error in the original autographs (the original writings of the biblical writers). The original autographs that no longer exist. They think there was error in them as well. I.e. they think God was incapable of presenting His revealed word to his creation without error. But scholars are there to help God in His need. (/sarcasm.)

Meanwhile, I have, in the English language, the pure and whole word of God I can hold right here in my hands. 

It's called the Authorized, King James Version.

The scholars seethe.

Understanding reprobation in one minute

God predestines some to be reprobates. He also tells us there is an unforgivable sin. Reprobates seemingly don't have to commit the unforgivable sin to be lost. They are predestined to be lost. The unforgivable sin seemingly can be committed by the elect. Which is what makes it so horrible. The unforgivable sin seems to be unbelief despite the work of the Holy Spirit within one's soul. So we don't know if a person is a hell bound reprobate due to predestination or an elect who has committed the unforgivable sin. So since we can't know we can't whine about how bad God is to create hellbound people. They could be soulless zombies from birth anyway. Or they could be scary idiots who choose hell over the new heavens and earth. Either way God's justice is magnified when he sends either to hell. Especially the unbelieving elect.

(OK, in the back of my mind there seem to be verses regarding of all that the Father will give to the Son none will be lost. Maybe that means they won't be lost because of anything Satan and the forces of darkness do... Because the unforgivable sin is a real commitable sin...)

6.07.2022

4 descriptions of an atheist

1. An atheist is an idolator. The Bible doesn't pose atheism as the antithesis of faith; the Bible poses idolatry as the antithesis of faith.

2. An atheist is a bridge troll. A bridge symbolizes the crossing of a threshold. The bridge troll doesn't want anyone crossing a threshold, so when he hears someone approaching he pops out from under the bridge and tries to dissuade the person from crossing the threshold; and he uses any number of rhetorical approaches, including mocking and abuse, to accomplish this.

3. An atheist is a bird without wings.

4. An atheist sees people dancing and assumes they are crazy...because the atheist can't hear the music.