For the Bible tells me so

Bible:
-if it is historically accurate, does it prove the miracles?  (historical fiction argument)
-every major religion has religious texts
-what about the inconsistencies?
     i.e. Luke not being historically accurate, John 8 being added much later,
-what is allegory and what is truth?
-if the Bible says to do something wrong does it make it ok?
     i.e. if the Ten Commandments were changed to make stealing ok, or the Biblical acceptance of slavery, rape, genocide, etc.

Back to science:
-is Carbon dating and the like really reliable?
-science developed from religious minds originally
-do you have to believe in a 6,000 year old Earth to be a Christian?
-is human disapproval of stealing, murder, etc. innate or spiritual?
-if you are not religious, there are still questions to be asked of this world, there exists a deep curiosity
-every natural occurrence has a natural cause
-how is energy created or destroyed??

Q. If you see a biological process that can be explained through natural causes, why do you need to add God on top of it?
A. In faith, you attribute everything to God.

From book (paraphrased from pg. 126): God cannot be found by testing or in a lab.
Q1. How can you then "prove" God?  Or even say that there is one religion?
Q2. Why does God hide?
Outside point: Some atheists have tried to "find" God and have failed, saying there is not enough proof; to which the believer will say they did not try hard enough.  Yet, the atheist will say that the Christians stop short of proof and feel satisfied with lack of evidences.

Q. Would it change your Christianity if the Bible was disproved?  Is their spirituality outside of the Bible?
A. Christianity is not based on Biblical accuracy alone, but on a supernatural calling.  Faith is subjective, experienced and based on a trust.

Believe vs accept: believe in a God, accept gravity and evolution.  If something comes along that explains the natural world better than those natural processes we now accept, we are quick to accept it.  However, a belief is not easily overruled by facts or alternative explanations.
           -if you say you know 100% that there is or is not a God than you have cut yourself off from
            additional hypotheses and have closed your mind


NEXT WEEK: Chapter 8