Questions from Yahoo Answers #32

[James Blankenship]

I believe in God, but not the bible?
A girl who is raped should marry her rapist-I don't agree with!
No abortion-I don't like it, but I'm pro-choice.
No sex before marriage-did it, while in love.
No gay marriage-support it, fully.
ETC!

The major point that I want to address is not the 4 statements that this person makes, but the very first point.

I believe in God, but not the bible?

This is the ignorance of atheists/non-believers, in regard to knowing Christ.

How can this person believe in God, but not the Bible?

Where did this person HEAR about God in the first place?

From the Bible.

This is a Scriptural impossibility!

If this person doesn't believe the Bible, I wonder which god they DO believe in then, especially when Scripture says this:

Romans 10:17 (King James Version)

17So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Now to address this persons other points:

A girl who is raped should marry her rapist

Jesus FULFILLED the need to do this, as seen here:

Matthew 5:17 (New International Version)

The Fulfillment of the Law
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

If we are honest with ourselves, we will freely admit that we can't fully understand all the Levitical laws, because these laws were set down in a different time period than what we live in. But those laws were set down for a reason BY God, & He had His reasons for setting them down.

This practice was for a specific time, & because Jesus fulfilled the need for this law, that is all we need to be concerned with. There is no longer the need to follow this law:

A girl who is raped should marry her rapist-

Then we have this:

No abortion-I don't like it, but I'm pro-choice.

I addressed this issue here:

solascripturaalone.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=murder&action=display&thread=19&page=1

Then there is this:

No sex before marriage-did it, while in love.

Sure, if you enjoy treating the person that you are with, as nothing more than a piece of meat , just to satisfy your own selfish, sexual desires!

I really question whether what this person felt was actually "love" or simply lust, especially when you compare it with what Scripture says here:

1 Corinthians 13:4-13 (New International Version)

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

New International Version (NIV)

Lust is selfish-love isn't.

Finally we have this:

No gay marriage-support it, fully.

I don't really need say anything about this topic. I'm sure everyone is well aware about what the Bible says about homosexuality.

James