Noah and the Ark

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Esther

I think the problem with too many people is they don't have faith in God's Word.

It the Bible says it I believe it and don't have a need to try and prove or disprove it.

Upon what basis do you believe it?

Failing to answer that would result in your abandonment of all evangelism. What basis would we offer to others to believe "our Book" over the many other books that have made similar claims of divine inspiration?

Originally Posted by Esther

If God kept the widow woman's meal and oil to not end, why do you think He would not be able to do the same?

Perhaps we don't see the miracle today as before is because everyone has to disect it and then discredit it.

Then what was the motivation behind the original miracle? Surely there were people in that day who wanted to "dissect and discredit" everything God was doing. That was the primary impetus behind Elijah's display at Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18) during the same period of time.

And yet, despite the sneering skeptics, Elijah kept right on doing miracles. Why should our skeptics of today have such might as to over power the miracles that God would otherwise want to do? Has God become weakened in the intervening years?

Originally Posted by Esther

As one minister I heard say, if the Bible said Jonah swallowed the whale I would believe it.

I'm afraid that if the Bible were nothing but a story book full of such silly tales as that I wouldn't believe any of it.

I believe the Bible for what it does say and the message it actually imparts; not whatever silly notions "some preacher" wants to attach to it.

Originally Posted by Esther

You either accept the Word of God as being divine inspired on you don't.

And you either accept it on its own terms or you make up stuff like "if Jonah had swallowed the whale..."

Originally Posted by Esther

How do you explain the Red Sea rolled back? It is not something that day nor today would be capble of doing.

Have Faith in God's Word.

I'm afraid that from this testimony so far, that I probably can safely say that I have more confidence the Bible as God's inspired word than you or that "some preacher."

Sorry, not to boast, but if you can't accept the Bible for what it says and accept the real world within which we live then I have to question the measure of faith on display. To accept this approach to Bible apologetics I have to accept the idea that "Jonah might have swallowed the whale" if that helped to move the story line along?

This sounds more like something the desperate prophets of Baal might have been saying about their "books" just before they gave up and started to cut themselves.

I don't mean to be harsh Esther, especially not to you. But the "just believe the Bible no matter what" line of thinking is the kind of stuff that got the "Died While Fasting" thread started and contributes to the people who let their own children die when a simple shot of insulin would have saved their lives.

I know you'd never be so callous about innocent human life. I'm just trying to suggest that there's probably a lot of good exegesis, hermeneutics and plain old common sense within you that you haven't even begun to tap yet.