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Black Spirituality Religion : BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS.......remember, I didn't write the book!

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...and another thing that has puzzled me for so long: In Palo (an ATR religion), why do the Congo spirits greet with "Nsala Malekum" which sounds alot like A-Salaam-A-Lekum....I'm sure this is no coincidence but no one has yet been able to explain it to me....

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In the Spirit of Sankofa and Truth!

Fine1952 said: ↑

Hello Info-moetry!

You are right and exact

Links of InterestL

Awake
http://www.jamaat.net/bible/AwakeArticle(1957).html

Daghettotymz by M/bwebe Aja Ishangi fka Jehvon Buckner
http://www.daghettotymz.com/current/101biblical/101blblical.html

One Love,
Fine

Welcome back Fine1952, my sister friend:

The first link you offered critics’ the publication, AWAKE, of a known occult, the Jehovah Witnesses, and the second link validates what the bible has to say about what would happen.

Notwithstanding, the degree to which hostility has been shown to me by the thread starter, herewith is my final post, for the record/archives of this thread only, thusly:

http://destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=512677&postcount=797

http://destee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53575&highlight=clyde coger

http://destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=523351&postcount=16

http://destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=523609&postcount=34

Peace to the goddess and her god...For Real!

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Does Color Matter? Only When Misrepresented!: The Bible depicts the Colors of Man and Consequences of false Representation

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http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/bible.htm

Countering Bible Contradictions
Originally By: Andrew Tong, Michael J. Bumbulis, MaryAnna White, Russ Smith, and others (1994-1995)

"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself." [Pr 26:4]

"Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes." [Pr 26:5]

The first thing to note is that these seemingly contradictory teachings are right next to each other. Could the writer of Proverbs be so stupid as to not notice this? I hardly think so. In fact, I think it is very illuminating that these teachings are closely tied. They highlight the fact that Biblical admonitions need not fall under the "either/or" criteria, but can be more properly understood in terms of "both/and." In fact, I have often found these two teachings from Proverbs quite useful.

In debating various non-Christians, I often encounter foolish responses and name-calling. I can either choose not to respond or ignore the foolishness and get to the point of contention. At such times, I follow Proverbs 26:4.

In other instances, I mirror the foolishness of my antagonist in the hopes that he/she can perceive the folly of their approach when I employ it. At such times, I follow Proverbs 26:5.

The key is knowing when to use which approach, and in such instances, I try to allow the Spirit to guide me.

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INDEX OF BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS

Countering Bible Contradictions

Originally By: Andrew Tong, Michael J. Bumbulis, MaryAnna White, Russ Smith, and others (1994-1995)

"What follows is a reply to a list of purported 143 Bible contradictions, along with a suggestion for more contradictions not found in this list. You will find below the index to the contradictions....

First, it would be prudent to speak of the burden of proof.

It's a general rule in philosophy that she who proposes must explain and defend. If someone says that "X exists," the burden is on her to provide a case for the existence of X. The burden is not on the one who denies that X exists. For how can one prove a negative?

In this case, it is the critic who proposes. He claims that the Bible is "full of contradictions," and often proposes a lengthy list such as the one we are about to respond to below.

Now, as Christians, we cannot prove that something is NOT a contradiction (i.e., one cannot prove that X [contradictions] do not exist). Instead, all that is required of us is to come up with plausible or reasonable, even possible explanations so that what is purported to be a contradiction is not necessarily a contradiction. Whether or not our explanation is the "true one" is not all that relevant in such contexts.

This is important. What is really relevant is whether our explanations show that the point of contention is not necessarily a contradiction. If we succeed, then the critic's assertion that "X and Y are contradictory" is no longer an obvious truth, instead it becomes merely a belief that someone holds.

At this point the critic might cry "foul" and note that it is the Christian who proposes. She is the one who claims the Bible is inerrant, thus she should demonstrate this. But how? How does one demonstrate a document is without error? At this point, the Christian need only learn from the methodology of modern atheism. Many atheists do not argue that God does not exist, because they realize that one cannot demonstrate the nonexistence of something. Instead, they take a more agnostic position, and argue there is no proof for God's existence, thus they don't possess God-belief. In the same way, the believer in inerrancy cannot demonstrate the nonexistence of contradictions in the Bible.

After all, the Bible contains 31,173 verses (even more when the OT deuterocanonicals are included). If we were to compare only couplets, where any one verse is juxtaposed against any other, one could write 971,750,000 couplets. Thus, by considering only couplets, there are almost one billion potential Bible contradictions! Surely, it is not reasonable to demand that a believer in inerrancy plod through one billion potential contradictions to prove negatives in every case.

Instead, the believer in inerrancy can argue there is no proof for the existence of contradictions in the Bible, thus they don't believe in Biblical errancy (thus they believe in inerrancy -- being without error).

http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/bible.htm

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We have to remember that the bible was not designed for the average person but was only supposed to be in the hands of those who they call priest or clergymen.

There were guidelines that were supposed to be followed by the teachers and clergymen but this country America changed that allowing all who wanted to learn how to read granting them freedom to do so. With this in mind it has changed the course of humanity from a potential 1 world religion into a planet based on free thinking.

The contradictions in the scriptures are as they are but not all of the scriptures which are deemed contradictions are as such. For this reason many Christians have posted rebuttals to those that are clearly not contradictions and some of them still are but they would like to believe otherwise.

You have to know what are the actually contradictions and which aren't.

Example:

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

So god destroyed the earth through means of a flood - all life was destroyed on earth except those who were on Noah's Ark. Yet in Number chapter 13:33

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Why where there giants on earth after the flood if God destroyed those giants as well? These were the sons of Anak aka Anunnaki who was supposed to be destroyed.

What it boils down to is that this material wasn't meant to be read by the average Joe but was meant to be used by those who were supposed to control the masses.

Peace

Ru2religious

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