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Contradictions in the Bible (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

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[–] FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Disagree. If the document was completely logical & self-supporting, then there'd be no need to cherry pick as anything said would be consistent with the whole. You could highlight certain aspects, but that's not cherry-picking.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If the document was completely logical & self-supporting, then there’d be no need to cherry pick as anything said would be consistent with the whole.

You're assuming that the entire document has a single message, which is absolutely not a given. Simple hypothetical:

If the Bible said nothing more than these things:

Abortion is bad
You should tithe 10% of your income to the church
The earth is 6000 years old

And you were someone who was on board with the first two but not the third, it'd be cherry-picking to call yourself an adherent of the Bible while citing your belief/agreement in/with the first two while ignoring the third, even though none of the three things above contradict each other.