I can't follow everything in the Bible. Even Bible scholars don't understand everything.
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What events in the Bible did not actually occur?
- Thread starter humble soul
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Well I'm not sure about the miracles. Maybe they did occur. The miracle of the blind man seems to teach that Jesus can help us see the truth.
The resurrection definitely occurred. It's a key belief for anyone who believes Jesus is the Son of God.
This is what I believe and therefore have faith.
I believe in God,
the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
he descended into hell;
on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting. Amen.
I believe in God,
the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
he descended into hell;
on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting. Amen.
Sorry can't be certain it's the right hand of the Father. Might be the left.
Sorry can't answer your questions well enough. I don't have the necessary scholarship.The authenticity of faith is the point though. Even the prophets of Baal had faith sufficient to believe they would be proven true by it. But they didn't have the faith of sorts that would save them in the time of God's power.
What I'm concerned about for you, humble soul, is the breakdown of your faith where it has become of a nature that regards the scriptures differently from the writers of the new testament. For instance, you can see St. Paul saying plainly that Adam brought sin into the world (Romans 5:12), St Peter saying that only eight souls were saved through Noah's ark (1 Peter 3:18), St Stephen preached about the powers of God to save the Israelites from Egypt (Acts 7:36), Jesus spoke literally with regards to the Manna (John 6:49) and Jonah in the fish (Matthew 12:40). I can't seem to think of an example from the New Testament that shows a literal belief in the Tower of Babel, but when I do I will remember that I owe it to be mentioned here
The point is that this should give you a good indication that your faith is not of the sort that the bible writers have had, and so it should be a warning to you that you are not believing the scriptures in the same way they do. When you say that you have some sort of faith, and you call yourself Catholic and Christian, yet your faith is not like that of the bible's writers, it is quite clear that what you have is a belief system that has caused you to feel comfortable in whatever matters that caused you to go after it in the first place, but that the comfort of your faith is more like a counterfeit than the real thing.
I just thought to mention that to you so that you can think about maybe reading some more of the scriptures in that light. The scriptures also say that a student can not be greater than his teacher, and as you seem to claim that the basis for your reading is the example set by your church, it could be that you might find some good examples of their own shortcomings when compared to the teacher of our faith (Matthew 23:8-10).
My faith is weak sometimes I admit. Reading more scripture may help especially NT. In fact I would like to read more of Paul. I think I would like to have the right intent though. More faith not more scholarship.
But I might suggest to you reading up on Catholic theology, so you can better understand my perspective. You may have made some good points eg. Manna from Heaven. I don't know.
I sometimes think we all believe in a different God. I believe in a God who only expresses a very small part of himself in the Bible. God is much bigger than the Bible. A mystery we will never solve. God is in nature. God is in the Universe. God is in us. Well most of us. He may have quit on some. Not me yet I hope.
Tessa
Member
Nobody will understand everything. We are all forever learning.
Tessa
Member
I remember learning that.
Covers only parts of the Bible, notice?
Tessa
Member
You are right Jesus is sitting at the right hand side of The Father.
Yes if you believe all that you have got a faith.
It kind of a joke.
But "sitting on the right" must have some special meaning.
My good brother, if you don't believe some parts of the Holy Scriptures are true, how can you believe the rest is true? How or where do you draw that line? Trust God. His Word is truth.
Tessa
Member
Yes but you have to read and think for yourself too, with the help of The Holy Spirit.
Sorry for all the typing errors, eyes are very bad today.
Read the blind man healing story
Tessa
Member
Good post.
Truthfrees
Member
amen
Parables are not literal, but presented by Jesus as He taught in parables as in likening something to something else in order for better understanding.
humble soul When you get into the Genealogy from the first man Adam you can trace the full lineage history clear up the line that Christ was to be born from. The Bible is rich with documented history of all that you listed that you only think are just stories.
In an article about the first couple, Father Guinan wrote that Catholics who ask, “Were there an Adam and Eve?” would be better off asking another question: “Are there an Adam and Eve?”
The answer, he said, “is a definite ‘yes.’ We find them when we look in the mirror. We are Adam, and we are Eve. … The man and woman of Genesis … are intended to represent an Everyman and Everywoman. They are paradigms, figurative equivalents, of human conduct in the face of temptation, not lessons in biology or history. The Bible is teaching religion, not science or literalistic history