Why Annie Laurie Gaylor cannot understand the Bible
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Gaylor wrote >>>>> There is no other book in which life is so cheap! Killing in the "Good Book" is of biblical proportions.
Many cannot understand the Bible because it has been sealed and the wicked do not understand (Dan 11:33). The words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end (Dan 12:9). But God reveals his secrets to this servants (Amos 3:7). If you stand ready to attack truth at all costs, you cannot understand God’s ways. To be Co-president of a Freedom From Religion Foundation as Gaylor is, already implies a direction towards opposing the Bible and its teachings.
Gaylor wrote>>>>> It takes eight pages in Ruth Hurmence Green's book, "The Born Again Skeptic's Guide to the Bible," just to list the mass killings ordered, committed or approved by the biblical deity. These range from drowning all but eight of the world's human inhabitants to merciless scorched-earth commandments to "utterly destroy" other nations (Deut. 7:1-2). There are countless biblical edicts to kill the innocent.
When the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the pit. There is the curse of being misled. It is important really to consider whatever we read. It is important yet to preserve the mind – to keep it clean and unpolluted from information that would threaten or direct it away from the truth. Therefore, it is best to go straight to the Bible as authority for truth rather than depend on man’s interpretation of it. In the case of Gaylor, she had used a skeptic’s guide. A skeptic is ready to oppose; there is no spirit of readiness to follow truth and therefore the mind is closed.
The Great Flood of Noah’s time was ridding the earth of wicked people. The earth was filled then with evil of untold proportions. Have you considered the nihilism involved there that God had wanted to eliminate? Man’s race needed to be preserved. God had wanted to conserve the creation he had started. And while your eyes were fixed on the drowning, the great God’s mind was fixed on healing the earth. He alone is maker and knows His own plans for mankind. Who are we then to oppose – when these are even for the best interests of man?
In the first place, even without the drowning, evil people that cannot be reformed are already considered spiritually dead. In the eyes of God, they are already dead – no matter how physically healthy they look. In other words, there is not just one way of looking at death or “mass killing ordered, committed or approved by the biblical deity” as Gaylor said. These all have to be viewed in the context of the designs and intention of the maker.
