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Inconvenient Questions
Where Did GOD Come From?
Getting a straight answer from the Church is harder than you might think.
The other day I was in a conversation with a Christian friend who challenged the theories of Evolution and the Big Bang with Biblical narratives, as if these religious narratives were somehow superior to what we have been able to observe in the natural world and the greater universe around us.
Mind you, the Church has a rather pathetic track record when it comes to accepting science over their own “holy traditions” that were ostensibly inspired by God. Just ask Galileo whom the Church persecuted and sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life for doing nothing more than challenging the Church’s errant rejection of Copernican (Heliocentric) astronomy. The Church thought and demanded as a matter of doctrine that the sun revolved around the Earth.
This pathetic track record of telling the truth also includes what got written into the Bible.
Mind you, while the Church has in recent centuries declared their Bible wholly inspired, infallible, and inerrant in its every word, they seem to not have any problems CORRECTING something that is immutably without error, namely,
- Protestants dropping several books from the canon as “uninspired”,
- removing the errant name “Lucifer” from it,
- admitting that some portions of the New Testament were later editorial additions that did not appear in earlier MSS, such as the first two chapters of Matthew and the last chapter of Mark, along with missing chapters of John, and,
- admitting that ALL of the Gospels (save Luke) are utterly the work of unknown authors; in other words, the gospel book that bears the name of a famed Apostle, they NEVER wrote the book.
All of this is to simply make the point that you cannot, in good faith or conscience, credit the Bible as being the infallible work and “Word of God” when you are making massive changes to it or admitting that its authors are utterly unknown making the books themselves outright lying forgeries.
