When questioning the Bible or Christian doctrines, Christians and their apologists answer your questions in a way typically in one of the following themes.
Theme 1 = Theological:
A theological response is usually given. These are responses that
typically have no realistic factual, historical, or real logical basis.
An
easy example of this is in Genesis where it states God created the
heavens and the earth in 6 days. A typical theological response to this
would be that a "day" is metaphorical and most likely you will be given a quote from
Paul about how a day is equivalent to 1000 years. Or that God is all
powerful and if he wanted to create everything in 6 days all things are
possible to Him.
Both of these responses give no factual basis and the quotes from other verses are usually way out of context.
These
type of answers to a bias christian usually make perfect sense to them, but
objectively if they were to step back and critically think about it... the
question isn't truly answered.
Theme 2 = The Redirect:
This one is my favorite... Usually it goes something like this. "Why
did Jesus say such and such?" The dance response would go something like
this... "Well he couldn't have meant that because in this other verse
it states such and such and he says this"
What has been done here
to the biased person is that you have been blindly redirected to an
alternate verse that completely agrees with not only what you want to
hear, but what the person who is answering wants you to hear.
What
you don't realize is that not only did the person indirectly admit that
the first verse says exactly what it says, there is also a verse that
completely contradicts that verse. Which also indirectly admits that
there is a contradiction.
Again the question isn't answered.
Theme 3 = The Cop Out:
These are the typical answers you get like.. "God works in mysterious
ways", "God's plan isn't always understood", "That was Old Testament
laws", "You just have to have faith".
These are basically answers
given when the person just doesn't have an answer for you. Instead of
admitting it you will get a response like this or something like "You
shouldn't question God, Satan is tempting you"
These are all "cop
out" answers. A response given to you because the question is simply
unanswerable and these answers give comfort to the responder because
the answer they just gave you satisfies them.
Even those these are the big 3, there are other types of responses.
Honorable
mention would be Repetition. This is where the responder just simply
repeats a so called answer over and over like it is logical and you
don't get it. Usually it is a response theme that comes from one of the above 3 themes.
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