Question For Christian Church

you see them as contradictions cause you are only seeing parts of the puzzle. you have to put all the pieces together. the bible can't be read front to back. its got to be read front to back, back to front, middle to front, and back again. everything is connected. name some contradictions. i always see people claim so called contradictions in the bible that aren't contradictions at all, and then i wonder if they even know what a contradiction is.

Organized religion can say anything and their Believers will swallow it Hook, Line and Sinker. Just as the Church Parishioners said Nothing when Priests, Pastors,Deacons and other members of the Church Hierarchy were caught sexually molesting the children of their own Parishioners. This abuse had been ongoing for 60 to 100 years, and Not one Parent had dared to make a scene. Then after it became National News,and the Church began to throw money at it to make it go away, None of the faithful boycotted the Church or made any effort what-so-ever to challenge the Church Leaders in any manner. Like a flock of docile Sheep they continued to tithe every Sunday, never uttering a single word in Anger. Not a single word, even though it was their own kids who were abused time and time again!

Why do you care?

Can you give me an example?

I am an evangelical Christian and I concede that there are scriptures. There are two things I think that are worth bringing up: 1) What do we mean by contradiction? If by contradiction you mean P -- -P then yes, I agree that there are some contradictions. However, scripture is not a scientific textbook and it is not meta-cultural. In that sense, I would argue that it does not have contradictions. The meaning of scripture is consistent. It is consistent within the time frame and cultural milieu that it was written in. 2)"Contradictions" are overrated. I think first of all the implications people have for scripture being non-contridictory in the sense of P-- -P are false and unfounded. So what if scripture has contradictions? Does this really do anything to the overall point of scripture--the "meta-narrative" in a word. No. Secondly, a lot of the contradictions people claim to be there are actually not there if you dig down deep enough. As a New Testament scholar I've seen how few "contradictions" really are there. Randy (www.ratiochristi.org)