Johnny Skeptic

Here we are in the year 2008 at the BC&H Forum, but what about people who lived far away from Palestine in 3500 A.D.? How could scholars have helped those people find out about the existence and will of God? Even today, some people who live in remote jungle regions have never heard of the God of the Bible. What good are scholars to those people?

Chris Johnston

Not sure your question makes sense. You mean almost 1500 years in the future? Or 3500 BCE? And what does "scholarship" have to do with the equation? Can you rephrase?

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Johnny Skeptic

I meant 3500 B.C. What I am getting as is that Christians at this forum place great emphasis upon scholarship and how many books a person reads, and how much education sources have. If a God exists, and wishes to communicate with people, I doubt that he places as much emphasis upon scholarship as many Christians do, and would be equally discernable by people who live in remote regions of the world. If a person has to become educated and read lots of books in order to find God, he probably does not exist.

Toto

This forum is about scholarship. But I don't think that the Christians who come here base their faith on scholarship. I think their faith comes from something else, and their scholarship might be a result of their faith, or might undermine their faith in some cases.

youngalexander

Then why does he not get on with it, instead of indulging in all this circumlocutory rigmarole!:huh:

mountainman

Are the words of the prophets
written on the subway walls?

--- Sounds of Silence, S&G

Tigers!

I would have thought that God would use whomever he pleases. If a scholar can do the job then use a scholar. If a layman then use a layman. It's not a one or the other situation.

Johnny Skeptic

I do not wish to participate in this thread anymore because I am more interested in other issues.

On a side note, it is my position that a loving God would never use copies of copies of ancient texts as a primary means of communicating with humans. We can discuss that issue at the GRD Forum if you wish.

Please reply to my most recent post in a thread at http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=235405 at the GRD Forum, and to my opening post in a thread at http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthr...41#post5115041 at the GRD Forum, and to my post #14 in a thread at http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=234477 at the GRD Forum.

Tigers!

Then why start the thread in the 1st place? :huh:

Johnny Skeptic

What I meant to say is that "I do not wish to participate in this thread anymore because after I started it I became more interested in other issues." I guess that that never happens to you. At any rate, I do not really need to justify what I do to you. I could have said "It is none of your business," which is what I probably should have said.

Please reply to my most recent post in a thread at http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=235405 at the GRD Forum, and to my opening post in a thread at http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthr...41#post5115041 at the GRD Forum, and to my post #14 in a thread at http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=234477 at the GRD Forum.