ideologyhunter
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The Christians I've known who read widely in apologetics could handle just about any apparent gospel contradiction or conundrum. I knew a girl (we were both in our teens, so this is ages ago) who had no trouble with the Bible's death penalty for disrespectful sons who curse either parent (EX 21:17). Her reasoning: God knew he had to preserve the civilization that would bring forth Jesus, so he imposed harsh laws that would ensure that those people clung to righteousness. (I know, completely bonkers, but there are probably a lot of believers who would nod their heads and agree.)
So how about my personal Bible riddle: Could God load up a fart so vast that he himself could not suppress it? This one involves not only the analogy between God's substance and the human form, which is 'in his image', and God's will and might, but, potentially, solar wind storms and black holes. And possibly that whirlwind that God was in when he spoke to Job, who knows. Strobel should know.
So how about my personal Bible riddle: Could God load up a fart so vast that he himself could not suppress it? This one involves not only the analogy between God's substance and the human form, which is 'in his image', and God's will and might, but, potentially, solar wind storms and black holes. And possibly that whirlwind that God was in when he spoke to Job, who knows. Strobel should know.