Contradictions of the Bible and Evolution: How Can We Resolve These Things? Let Us Reason Together as Friends

I think we may be in agreement on the "contradiction" issue. I think I am looking at it one way and you are looking at it another way, but we both agree somewhat on the issue. There are definitely physical language contradictions in the Bible, but there are no untruths. Do you agree with that assessment?

If we deem there are untruths, then why should we read it? If we deem there are untruths, who decides which ones? Then the Bible can become our own philosophy, with us picking and choosing those things we deem are true and those things we deem are not. Many religions have their foundations built on this premise. You can't just read part of the Bible and pick and choose which part to believe and which part not to believe. This then becomes religion or philosophy. The Bible has to be taken as a whole. You also have to remember that "Yahweh Is love" and Elohim is perfect in all His ways, including the writing of His Bible by men and women He chose.

One big problem is that people do not know the Tenach and the New Testament fully and judge them from the miniscule amount they think they know or what they have heard, instead of searching it out for themselves in the scriptures. Also, the Bible absolutely cannot be understood with just the mind of man and its intelligence. One must have the Spirit of Yahweh in him to understand it, otherwise it is being understood with man's mind only and it was not written by man's mind. It was written by Elohim's mind, who got man to transcribe it for Him. So when man speaks against the Bible saying it has mistakes in it because it was just written by man, he does not understand the ways of God very well and is only looking at it from a humanistic point of view.

It is true there are many seeming contradictions and perhaps seeming untruths in the Bible. Is God so stupid or un-powerful or un-omnipotent that He cannot influence men to write Him a perfect book? If we think so, then we do not think much of God and put a whole lot of stock in humanity and all its flaws. (Jeremiah said: The heart [mind] of man is desperately wicked above all things...). Those who believe God is so weak and incapable also believe God had to have "help" to create the universe, that He could not possibly just speak a word and have it come into being, out of thin nothingness, but He had to have a natural process of millions of years to do it. Man's mind who has only observed his minute dimensions of parameter and number, is so bold as to postulate that God must do it this way, because that is what is present in man's world and surly God cannot operate outside what we see, hear, taste, feel or think. All else to the natural man is just science fiction and should be on Star Trek. Speaking of the natural man: See I Corinthians 2---this pretty much explains what I just said in much better terms, mainly starting in vs. 7-16: "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the princes of this world knew {and still don't - examples: the pope, PhD evolutionists, great men and women of human intelligence and power, etc.} for had they known it they would not have crucified the Yahushua of glory {today they still crucify Him by denying Him and His creation and nullifying his importance and power}. But it is written, eye has not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart {mind} of man, the things which Elohim has prepared for them that love Him. {now usually people stop here with this verse to prove that we don't know yet, but we will know someday, but continue and you are shown a revelation, if you can hear it}. But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him {the bible's definition of death is "the body without the spirit is death". So you see this mystery? Now you know what element in the human body is the element that causes life. It is the spirit of man in him. When man dies man's spirit leaves to go to paradise, on either the good side or the bad side; it is separated by a great chasm.} even so the things of Elohim know no man, but the Spirit of Elohim {i.e., only the Spirit of Yahweh knows the things of Yahweh. The spirit of man knows only the things of man and has no idea about the things of Elohim.} Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of Yahweh; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of Yahweh. {i.e., we absolutely cannot understand this bible apart from being given the spirit of Elohim. Initial salvation is the mechanism of Elohim's Spirit joining with man's spirit, so that we actually and literally, become a NEW CREATION, hence the saying we are born again, the old man has died and the new man has revived. This is what it is talking about.} Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches {man's wisdom is found in the university juggernauts} but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of Yahweh; for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. {hence, we have the reason why men of great intelligence literally cannot and do not have any capacity whatsoever to be able to understand the things of Elohim, because they do not have the Spirit of Elohim in them, but only the spirit of man} But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who has known the mind of Yahweh, that he may instruct Him? But we HAVE the mind of Yahushua Ha Mashiah. {if we are saved we do. If we are not, we don't. Elohim gives us His Holy Spirit in initial salvation, but salvation is three fold--see II Corinthians 1; 10--" Who delivered us for so great a death [initial salvation], and does deliver [daily salvation--dependant upon our walk and learning and application of the bible, etc.], and in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us. [this is future salvation from the very presence of sin and destruction to be with Christ]}

There is a classic example of "contradiction" in Proverbs 26; 4 -5: " vs. 4: Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. vs. 5: Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." What's the answer then to this glaring contradiction? It is found in Ecclesiastes 3;7 "...a time to keep silence, and a time to speak...". The thing we have to remember is that while there may be many "contradictions" in the Bible there are no untruths. The contradiction is actually in our minds in our understanding of the Bible and not in the Bible itself. We assume that which we don't understand is a contradiction when it may be just that we don't understand it yet. Our understanding of it is opened more and more as we read and study, as we pray and seek, etc. Draw near to Elohim and He will draw near to you. This is one of the main ways He draws near, is by giving us revelation from His Holy and Inspired Word. Elihu told Job in Job 32: "Days should speak, and the multitude of years should teach wisdom {have you ever seen an old fool? I have seen many.} but there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding. Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged understand judgment." {necessarily}. II Peter 1: "Know this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of Yahweh spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." Example of Elohim writing His book, again. It is impossible to know the actual ways of Yahweh without having Elohim's spirit and having the mind of Yahushua Ha Mashiah. It was written by the Holy Ghost, therefore it cannot be understood by the mind of man, but only by the Holy Ghost that is in some men.

It will take Elohim opening these doors of truth for you and there may be some submission involved, some humbling of yourself to see this. I hope, if nothing else, you do it to humor an old friend who is petitioning you to view and read it. Elohim's got all the time in the world, however we don't.

Let me get something straight: Now I do absolutely believe in micro-evolution, which is change within a species, but I absolutely do not believe in macro-evolution, which is when one species changes to another. There is absolutely no empirical evidence in the fossil record of this ever occurring and the lack of transitional forms screams to the top of its lungs. Micro-evolution absolutely occurs within a species and is observable both in living examples and in the fossil record. It is an environmentally induced manipulation of the genes within a species to adapt to whatever situation comes into being. Yahweh has so created living things so that there is an enormous pool of genes within a species that can combine to produce many different forms for adaptation within a species. Adam and Eve had all the genes and from that we have seen races "evolve" and various size humans with various ways of thinking, etc. Any species, dependant upon the environment and other influences can, over a period of time develop new forms within that species. Look at dogs. A tiny dog is not a large dog, but is still a dog. A wolf is not a dash hound, yet they are still dogs. The ark probably had one common form of dog with all the genes capable of producing all the forms of dogs that we see today. This is another plain and observed fact that evolutionist deny and that is the flood of Noah. On every mountain top, few or none without exception, there are fossilized sea shells. Of course the macro-evolutions say its from localized flooding. The great oil reserves are from giant masses of living things buried suddenly and quickly during the flood of Noah. The pressures they are under within the earth are not millions of years old or the pressures would have leaked out by now. The mid-Atlantic ridge and the circle of fire is probably where the fountains of the deep broke loose and water sprayed into the upper atmosphere and rained down with sudden dramatic drops in temperature {wooly mammoths are found frozen standing up with food still in their mouth. Something dramatic and sudden happened in extinction. It was the great flood. It may have been triggered by a cosmic event, but the point is that it happened. Extinction of many of the forms we see was sudden.} It's amazing that today, all we see is extinction occurring in species and never creation of any new species. Wow! Every culture in the world has a historical story of some great flood that happened in their distant past. I wonder why? (Good resources: http://www.drdino.com, http://www.icr.org.)

I can see very well how men are duped into believing evolution, though. My goodness, everywhere you turn on any science channel, they speak of it as if it is a proven fact beyond criticism, rather than an unproven, far fetched theory. There is no empirical evidence that holds any water in the fossil record, of macro-evolution, in fact, there are no transitional forms in the fossil record that haven't been skewed and glued together with the great imagination of men. Anywhere you go in any university, almost, you find PhD's of science teaching it as if it were solid, hard facts. They are not trying to deceive others. They actually have been brainwashed themselves into believing a fairy tale, where the frog has turned into the prince and the kiss was that magic ingredient called time.

Keep in mind that Yahushua Ha Mashiah chose those things men consider as foolish to confound the things that they consider are wise: See I Corinthians 1; 18-31"...the preaching of the cross is to them that perish is foolishness...Yahweh has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and Elohim has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world and things which are despised, has Yahushua chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are..."

For someone who is not trying to convince you, I have sure laid out a lot here. I guess I am trying to convince you, but only because I want you to know these truths.

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