You can't have it both ways, cherry pickers--put the WHOLE OT in, or take the WHOLE OT out!

Christians are such cherry pickers!

They love to cherry pick science, arbitrarily deciding that gravity, electricity, and germs are real but evolution, the age of the universe, and vaccines are not (hum--maybe they don't believe in germs after all).

But did you know that they cherry-pick the Bible, too?

They love-love-love denouncing homosexuality because Leviticus, a chapter in the Old Testament of the Bible, says that it is an abomination. But what about everything else that's in the Bible that they flat-out ignore?

"Oh, that's the OLD Testament," they retort.

Did they forget that so is Leviticus?

A lot of them, while loudly proclaiming the Bible to be literal scientific truth, openly dismiss as inaccurate all the Biblical descriptions of the earth as being flat, the sky as being hard, and outer space as being water, just to name a few.

Um, ex-squeeze me?

So, which Old Testament abominations are still abominations, which Old Testament scientific facts are still facts, and which parts of God's eternal unchanging word and LAW do you think it's ok to ignore?

Which ones do you insist on imposing on the rest of the world, whether they like it or not?

Does it even matter that the Bible is riddled with contradictions and inaccuracies?

Does it even matter that you can't tell me exactly what happened on Christmas? Or Easter?

Can you even tell me exactly when Jesus was born?

I'm serious here.

Was Jesus born before 4 BCE, as suggested in Matthew 2:1, or was Jesus born after 6 CE, as Luke suggests in Luke 2:1?

Matthew 2:1
"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem..."

Herod the Great died around 1-4 BCE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great

Luke 2:1-2
"1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)"

When Cyrenius was governor of Syria, the census occurred around 6 or 7 CE. (Think about this, too: the Romans, being nothing if not practical, would never have decreed entire populations to schlep to their birthplaces from wherever else they were living. That would have been as much of a zoo as Noah's fabled ark.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius

 

How can you call such a book factual at all?

 

News flash: objective reality is a thing.

The laws of physics are not subject to your beliefs.

 

God doesn't work in mysterious ways, but some Christians' minds sure do!