Why do biblical literalists refuse to answer questions?

There seem to be a number of people who beleive the bible is literally true but as soon as you ask them any difficult questions they inevitable insult you (thereby being most unchristlike) and refuse to answer or just lie their way out?

Why is that?

 

Yup.

Can already see where this thread is going...

 

Mostly because there aren't as many as you seem to think. Even many who claim to be aren't really.

 

Bible literalists tend to be people who...aren't very smart or atleast criitical. The idea of "nuance" or "grey area" in the Bible scares them. If Genesis isn't "literally true"...then they worry that the Resurrection may not be literally true.

 

I guess the people you are speaking with become angry. What do you like to know in context with the bible? Maybe I can help you - maybe not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oYmc9WTdSs

 

Could it be the answers you get don't satisfy you and you can't accept it so you start a rant thread like this?

 

Because their whole understanding of the world is tied to their illusion that everything in the bible is true, and thus as a mental safety mechanism they refuse to acknowledge reality because doing so would shatter everything they thought they knew and such an experience isn't pleasant I suppose.

 

If one believes every word in the bible is true, any information that contradicts it could shake to the core the very foundation on which their entire lives exist. Allowing that information or facts to penetrate their psyche would result in a complete mental meltdown.

Some people actually go through this process, their called agnostics and atheists.

 

I went through it. Irish catholic family, 9 years of catholic school, altar boy, the whole 9 yards. It isn't as bad as it seems, it takes several years and it's more of a drip, drip, drip until you reach the straw that breaks the camels back.

For me that straw was the catholic priest molestation catastrophe.

 

You grew up in a wicked church system that blaphemy the Holy Bible daily. So I can fully understand why you deflected from
"the Book".

Most Catholics do this after a while when they are finally disgusted with all the wickedness and lean to Atheism or Agnostic. some even go all the way left and become Satanists.

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The Bible is mankind's timeline. Everything that has happend in the world, happend just like the bible said it woould.

 

Rather proves my poin5t -refuses to answer and starts insulting

 

Biblical fundementalists must really know that their book is full of contradictions or they would be happy to answer questions. 4 Horsemen is ample proof of this.

If the Bible was from god then there would be no contradictions.

 

No one likes or enjoys being found to be ignorant.

For example: matt 16;20 Then did he charge his disciples that they may say to no one that he is Jesus the Christ.

what would that do to christianity, if people even listened to 'jesus'?

 

I can destroy the argument that the Bible is a history book with a single point: never once in the Roman Empire was there a requirement to take your family to the city if your father's birth in order to be counted for taxation.

 

The story of the birth of jesus is a complete fabrication. None of the events line up with historical accounts or accuracy, it was added later to the gospels do affirm the deity of jebus as the messiah in order to fulfill a prophecy that he would be born in the town of Bethlehem.

The census in question was conducted in 6-7CE. The bible clearly associates the birth of jebus with the birth of JTB which occurred ten years earlier.

Micah 5:2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

Matthew 2:5
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,

Matthew 2:6
And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

John 7:42
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

 

Census of Quirinius


The Census of Quirinius refers to the enrollment of the Roman Provinces of Syria and Iudaea (Judaea) for tax purposes taken in the year 6/7. The Census was taken during the reign of Emperor Augustus (27 BCE – CE 14), when Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was appointed governor of Syria, after the banishment of Herod Archelaus from the Tetrarchy of Judea and the imposition of direct Roman rule.[1] The Gospel of Luke account of the birth of Jesus connects it to this census.

 

Interesting...or ironic...that 4horseman shows up on a thread to deny the OP's premise...

but then confirms it.

I'll guarentee you he'd never last three posts if asked a serious question about Bible literalism, before it broke down into name-calling. But happy to be proven wrong....if he's game?

 

you may be happy to be proven wrong but no fundy will ever be proven wrong on anything.

 

Why are the RCs still the largest religion in the world?

What does the good book say about the dinosaurs and their existence and disappearance?
When does it say the dinosaurs inhabited the earth?
IYV, how old is the earth?

 

That's wrong. Nevertheless: What worries you concrete? What is the problem for you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beXW5s3ZCB4

 

Catholics: 17.4% of the world population.
Muslims: 19.2% of the world population.

And since 2006 the Pope is also not any longer "Patriarch of the West"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgU3ojwlCM

 

You compared 1 denomination of christianity with an entire religion of Islam. Apples and oranges.

 

That's why you are always 'right', "fundy" - Every Christian is by the way always on the fundament of his church or he is not a Christian. Meanwhile the word "fundamentalist" is in the near of "terrorist" - but Saint Francis for example was a christian fundamentalist - and he's in the opposit of an expression like terrorist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XzkwPn_gcA

 

Concrete?

The bible is self contradictory. How can it be correct if it is self contradictory?

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Concrete?

The bible is self contradictory. How can it be correct if it is self contradictory?

 

So you had to say "Christians" and not "Catholics". In the european Union for example a politician is not able to say "homosexual behavior is a sin" without becoming immediatelly fired and to have to look for a new career outside of the political business. In the USA Catholics never had any big influence in the politics of the USA, although 25% of all Americans are Catholics. The catholic church is in the beginning of the third millenium not important. No one cares what Catholics are saying. The Islam is important and most Muslims are Sunnies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7KSK0E0Ja0