JehovahsWitness wrote:Just like one could clean a glass of water of the visible lumps of excrement, what is most dangerous would remain on a micrscopic level, invisible to the naked eye. We may think we have cleaned it but we may in fact be wrong. We may be taking in foreign and dangerous pathogens or rejecting something which the author intended as an integral apart of scripture.
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Are not such Christians putting more faith in
themselves than in their God? More importantly, would an omnipotent God who deliberately
chose not to filter and protect his word (obviously if he is omnipotent he could find a way if he wanted to) , in order to protect His children from the inevitable contamination of religious confusion (or the
utter delusion of believing they are
qualified to see everything clearly enough to decide what God thinks about every issue mentioned in scripture), be worthy of our adoration at all?
Extending this metaphor a bit (probably more than is wise, but I think it's funny), the problem is that the water hasn't even been cleaned enough to worry about whether the contamination is microscopic or not. There's still big chunks of poop floating in it.
The atheists see the poop and acknowledge it for what it is. Most atheists avoid it altogether, but some atheists are like me and swim in it. We're careful to keep our mouths closed, though.
Some Christians are willing to recognize the poop as poop will at least try to filter out the biggest and most obvious chunks. Maybe they add a slice of lemon or a dash of Universalism to make it taste better.
In the spirit of your last paragraph, however, far too many Christians simply have faith that those big chunks can't be poop. God wouldn't let that stuff get into the reservoir and if some got in there, He'd scoop it out for us. In fact, those are raisins! And prunes! Don't you
know a candy bar when you see it? You can't
prove that's not a Baby Ruth!
Bottoms up!
