I have a Bible and a brain.
All interpretations are not equal. You ask, "Whose interpretation is right?" I told you why I don't think yours makes any sense; feel free to defend it. If you show me how it's logically consistent and merited by the text, I'll at least grant that it's ambiguous. If your argument is strong enough, you'll convince me.
It's not as though interpretations are these nebulous things that we're powerless to decide between. Ambiguity can exist. But this doesn't seem to be a terribly complex subject.
To recap: You think that when Jesus said "judge not, lest ye be judged," and "love your neighbor as yourself," he meant "always keep silent about sin." I pointed out that Jesus didn't keep silent about sin, and no one else in the Bible did, so that would be an odd thing for him to say. I proposed what is in my opinion a straight-forward understanding of what it means to judge, with a Biblical illustration of the principle being applied.
You can pick apart my argument, or defend your own. If you don't, I'm not going to accept what seems to me to be an irrational idea. I understand if it's not important to you...but don't expect me to lend credence to bald assertions that seem to ignore the facts.
and yes its hypocritical of me, to judge people of being hypocritical by judging people... just the way it is though.
It seems as though you're saying, "logic doesn't matter."
becuase I've heart many many different denominations saying that the bible is a flawless and exhaustive record, that if it wasn't in there then it didn't happen.
Hmm. I'm guessing you misunderstood, or are taking it out of context. The Bible doesn't record what David ate for breakfast the day he slept with Bathsheeba, but I doubt these denominations would say he didn't went hungry.
If that is what they meant, then they're idiots.
So admiting that things were left out, means that you have to admit things might have been added in.
Uh, no. A record can be incomplete without be incorrect. Actually, all records are incomplete in some way; it's impossible to tell everything about an event or series of events.
Also if you start with just 2 people, and there kids do there kids, and there kids do there kids, etc. no matter how many generations you go down, there is still no genetic diversity.
True. If we really did start with just 2 people, God must have intervened to provide the genetic diversity. |
