Anglicanism prides itself on its ability to muddle through by somehow
containing contradictions over which others divide.
If the Bible
contains contradictions, then God is the author of confusion.
If so, and the Bible
contains no contradictions, what exactly did Paul mean?
The impartial observer who studies the Quran carefully will note that it does not
contain any contradictions.
He does not find an underlying unity among the various parts of Scripture (a basic Reformation principle of interpretation), but believes that Paul's writings
contain contradictions concerning women.
Not everyone who says that the Bible
contains contradictions is an angry, arrogant, card - carrying atheist.
Although Islam teaches that the Bible and the Koran originated from God, we were effectively instructed that they were polar opposites: the Bible has been polluted, the Koran remains pristine; the Bible is partially the word of man, the Koran is purely the word of God; the Bible
contains contradictions, the Koran is completely coherent; the Bible leads to confusion, the Koran leads to life.
Likewise in the Greco - Roman world the pure ethic of love faced a desperate trial, and the marvel is not that the New Testament
contains contradictions and qualifications of it, but that such elevated and triumphant faith in it was voiced at all and has remained to chasten and guide the conscience of the world.
There are other arguments for the Bible as Divine revelation, such as fulfilled prophecy, and the Bible being written over thousands of years by dozens of authors, and not
containing contradictions, and numerous other arguments.
If you believe that the whole Bible is God's word, and that
it contains no contradictions, that necessarily implies that interpreting the Scriptures by the Scriptures is an infallible rule of interpretation.
The Bible can perfectly well be both God - breathed (it is), and
contain contradictions (it does).
Meanwhile to say that Christian dogma
contains contradictions is kinda like saying Ketchup is not a vegetable — strictly true but what is the point?
That means that all the information they give out — their words, body language, they way they live and dress, everything — fits together and
contains no contradictions.
Does God require Does the Bible
contain contradictions or errors?
Does the Bible
contain contradictions or errors?
According to the logic of energy, this happens because a result is always an actualization obtained through a contradiction between an actualization and a potentialization and any included third means bringing peace to a contradiction and
it contains the contradiction and its pacification simultaneously.
The sheer density of pattern, texture, and partial - picture detail in any given square foot already
contains contradictions and multitudes.
Not exact matches
3) i suggest u read the quran as it is no way holy and
contains many historical errors and
contradictions!!!! OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!
The Bible itself
contains many
contradictions, moral and otherwise (please run a search for them, it is highly annoying to spam the board with them here).
The cozy partnership
contains many
contradictions, not the least of which is that within the Christian premillennial dispensationalist scenario, Jews ultimately have two options: either convert to Christianity or be incinerated at Armageddon.
But for Hegel such a subject can and must
contain such contradictory predicates; indeed the subject - predicate paradigm is nothing other than an attempt to ignore such
contradiction which affords mind its motion, and to rigidify, calcify, and compartmentalize a reality that is fluid and interconnected.
Those would - be literalists who yet argue that the Bible is unerring and unquestionable have not dealt with its
contradictions, which of course it does
contain, and the Gospels are not exempt.
That God is must be necessary, hence altogether free from contingency or change; but what God is, beyond the basic fact that he is the ground of his own existence and of all other existents, may without any
contradiction contain contingent elements and, therefore, change.
For many people it can come from reading the Bible and finding that it
contains some good morals, but also errors,
contradictions, hypocrisy, nonsense and IMMORALITY by the standards of many people who follow the Golden Rule today.
That opinion
contains a deep
contradiction that can be understood as a....
The Bible, Steve argued,
contains «numerous discrepancies, errors and downright
contradictions», as well as «oppressive and discriminatory measures».
It also
contains an inherent psychological
contradiction, in being at once an invitation to pleasure and a frustration of desire.
It refers us for this purpose to a long series of extremely various documents,
containing many
contradictions and incongruities, subject to the flow of time and change through many centuries of human existence.
Instead of leaving us in awe, it leaves us dumbfounded by all of the nonsense,
contradictions and backwardness that it
contains.
It
contains incongruities and
contradictions, not merely in matters of fact, but in spiritual outlook and moral valuation.
It's so full of
contradictions, parables, borrowings from other, older, religions, and outright fantasy that the only «truth» it
contains is purely accidental.
The dialectic, according to Hegel, is the process in which any social or intellectual state
contains an essential
contradiction.
All the
contradictions, inaccuracies, and just plain insanity that the Bible and other religious texts
contain is ignored and replaced with the idea of «Faith».
It is important for Christians to remember that every structure of justice, as embodied in political and economic institutions, (a)
contains elements of injustice that stand in
contradiction to the law of love; (b)
contains higher possibilities of justice that must be realized in terms of institutions and structures; and (c) that it must be supplemented by the graces of individual and personal generosity and mercy.
An oxymoron is a descriptive phrase
containing a logical
contradiction: a deafening silence, a cold fire, or, my daughter's favorite, military intelligence.
Or do all religions
contain such
contradictions?
Because, as hard as it can be to stomach, oppressors are people too: fully human and
containing all the complexity and
contradiction that we do.
But not only is the philosophical idea of freedom full of antinomies: the lived experience of freedom
contains a basic
contradiction.
Granting that modern art
contained too many
contradictions to have provided Germany with a «state art,» Bassmann is no doubt correct in claiming that many artists could have been co-opted by the regime — as were.
It
contains many, many errors,
contradictions, and deliberate alterations and additions by the scribes who copied it.
The Bible is a great book of morals, but it was compiled by imperfect men so it also
contains errors,
contradictions, hypocrisy and nonsense.
For unless the conception
contains hidden
contradictions, it shows that deity would exist no matter what else did or might exist, no matter what else did not or might not exist.
Our hypothetical assumption of this fact and of the individual's particular relationship to the God
contains no self -
contradiction, and thought is free to occupy itself therewith as with the strangest proposal possible.
What other way is there to explain the staggering levels of muddled - thinking and
contradiction which are
contained within it?
Early reports may
contain errors,
contradictions and ambiguities, and those wishing to find evidence of a cover - up will focus on such inconsistencies to bolster their claims.
This was possible because DNA naturally comes with two complementary strands twisted together, and the researchers set up their problem so that every length representing a logical
contradiction contained at least one 30 - base sequence and its complement.
Shah believes that that could be because the prototype constraint prevents the algorithm from assembling feature lists that
contain internal
contradictions.
definitely a
contradiction mentioning that seeds help, since they
contain good fats
Lisa is an amazing character: infuriating, arrogant, anxious, guilt - ridden, vulnerable, aggressive, precocious... a teenager turning young adult, yes, but a fully realized human being who constantly surprises because she
contains a multitude of impulses and
contradictions that we're not used to seeing on the screen.
This simple line of dialogue
contains within it a clear summation of the film as a whole, including its core themes and
contradictions.