They carefully perused the Scriptures, noting instances
of supposed contradiction.
Not exact matches
the bible is full
of outright
contradictions and there is no historical evidence for any
of the
supposed miracles reported in the bible.
The Catholic Church cherry picked whatever BS was laying around, written generations after the time
of the
supposed Christ and stuffed it into a book with
contradictions on every page.
That being said, you can prove that the Christian God can't possibly exist because
of the
contradictions in His
supposed attributes (i.e..
Seems like an obvious
contradiction to me; something that's only
supposed to work as an apologetic against problems with the prevailing God model while, in fact, it works equally well against all the positive aspects
of that same model.
The bible is so full
of contradictions yet is
supposed to be the word
of god?
But
suppose your temperament is a mass
of contradictions and that you find it extremely difficult to be kindly and tolerant.
There is then no
contradiction in
supposing that a being whose existence is necessary may nevertheless alter in some respects in the mode
of that existence.
If the God had permitted himself to be born in an inn, wrapped in swaddling - clothes and laid in a manger, could the
contradiction have been greater than that the news
of the day should be the swaddling - clothes
of the Eternal, aye, as in the
supposed instance its actual form, so that the Moment is really decisive for eternity!
As we have already pointed out, the system
of power culture must eventually fall because
of its inner
contradictions, and in this we can take comfort, but our sense
of comfort is premature if we
suppose the failure
of one evil system means the reinstitution
of that which sensitive men have most prized.
Unlike some feminists, I do not rest my conclusions on any
supposed contradictions within the writings
of Paul, or between Paul and Jesus, on any alleged «rabbinic interpretations,» or on the cultural relativity
of any text.
«11 The
contradiction involved here consists in holding that there is a loss
of values and that there is not a loss
of values — when God is
supposed to have his past incorporated into his present according to the same principle by which finite individuals inherit their pasts.
I'm extremely skeptical
of those who claim absolute knowledge from a
supposed holy book that has more
contradictions than Swiss cheese.
There are far too many holes in the whole story, even
contradictions in the different books
of the new testament telling what's
supposed to be the same story... and not things that could be shrugged off as just viewpoint differences but factual differences.
When Jesus died on the cross he took all
of our sin past present and future with him so this why there is this
supposed contradiction as Christ had not paid the penalty at this point
of the Bible for sin.
In view
of his
supposed rejection
of any static logic
of identity and
contradiction, it is not without interest that Altizer can not acknowledge a dialectical relationship that comes to terms with a coincidence
of real opposites but only with such an understanding
of dialectics as will lead to its own destruction by the annihilation
of the polarity in a final, posthistorical, permanent identity.
You can write volumes on
supposed contradictions in the bible, but you won't write a single word that has not been addressed by some system
of theology that removes the
contradiction (wether right or wrong).
What has here been said applies to the historical in the direct and ordinary sense, whose only
contradiction is that it has come into existence, which
contradiction is implicit in all coming into existence.3 Here again one must guard against the illusion
of supposing that it is easier to understand after the event than before the event.
(c) If the fact in question is an absolute fact, or to determine it still more precisely, if it is the fact we have described, it would be a
contradiction to
suppose that time had any power to differentiate the fortunes
of men with respect to it, that is to say, in any decisive sense.
I
suppose there's a
contradiction there... that man on the hill with all his umbrellas... he would place them in the thunderstorm regardless
of whether he got struck by lightning or not.
Resolving
supposed contradictions is a prime function
of art.
Upon entering the gallery space, the viewer is confronted by an installation consisting
of three video projections that present the most pressing questions concerning the
supposed objectivity
of academic knowledge by pointing out the corporatization
of institutions
of higher learning in the United States and the sometimes controversial positions that universities fall into when trying to physically expand amidst disenfranchised communities, as well as falling into possible
contradictions with the agendas
of university donors.
But there is a strange
contradiction in the
supposed effect
of a tax.