..why you think those verses apply to the question?  Some people just post verses, and then that's it.  No explanation.  Sometimes it seems totally irrelevant.  It needs an explanation in a person's own words.
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Some people feel that should just be enough. It isn't! And please let me add on to this:\n\nDO NOT-\n\n     -quote scriptures to individuals who have just lost someone dear to them (spouse or a child), UNLESS it is someone who you know very well, and they asked you a religous question, and/or it completely applies and will encourage and comfort that person. I hate scripture drive-by-ing, especially when individuals are hurting. At moments when people are hurt, DO NOT QUOTE CHRIST, instead BE LIKE HIM. Cry with that person, hug them, and listen. Scriptures were not written to be quoted, they were written to be lived. Please take note of how Christ comforted those who moroned, and follow his example. \n\nChrist never did drive-by scripture quoting. With everything he did quote, it was attached to a message and could be understood by those "who had ears to listen". \n\n     - do not offer Scriptures you do not understand yourself. It's embarrasing.\n\n     - do not offer Scripture to non-christians, unless it is out of love.\n\n     - do not offer Scripture just to bible-thump someone in the head. If a person is sinning, do what the scriptures says and rebuke them gently. PLEASE NOTE- this is in reference to Christians. You can not hold somebody to a standard they have not accepted as their own. Christians are held to a higher standard, don't hold others to it if they haven't accepted it yet. \n\nWhen you explain do not say things like, well its God's word and that's all you need to know. Christ took the time to explain what He said, do the same. \n\nTo those who have been the recipient of such drive-by scripturing, please understand that the person who drove by actually meant well. I do believe God's word should be shared, but please do it with love and full consideration of others. And please remember that it is far more important to live the scriptures, rather then quote them. \n\n\nGodspeed
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Mainworry's main worry is how to get points and place high up. he seems to thinks if he preached jesus for those 2 points questioner got a good deal.\n\n i would understand if his cut n paste job of bible is answering the question even remotely. it would be OK. but often it is 100% irrelevant. \n\nit is equivalent to reenagers' answering idk.
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I agree. Many times on this site, I'll see a good question, and then some well intentioned Christian say, "you just have to have faith," or "faith isn't about logic."  It's quite irritating.  I know I have so much to learn and am ignorant myself, but it seems like some people check their brains at the door when it comes to faith. God wants us to love him with all our minds as well.  \n\nRejecting worldy wisdom doesn't mean we're supposed to be ignorant.
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Some people will just make responses like that out of puroseful ignorance. Others try to find contradictions in the bible and use them to negate its authenticity. An example of this is the "Skeptic's Annotated Bible" which can be found at the link below. The truth is that there are no contradictions in the bible, and any seemingly to be "contradictions" can easily be explained, rationalized, and cleared up through proper study. \n\nhttp://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html\n\nVisit the site; then email me through my profile any contradiction and I'll clear it up for you.
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I think it is horrible that people of any faith would post such nasty comments. I am a believer in God, but do not call myself a Christian. I have had bad experiences with them like yours. These people are not being very good Christians as they are going against a lot of what the bible teaches, ie tolerance and not judging others. You should ignore these people and keep asking questions. It is how we learn and understand.
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GodShew's questions are usually unintelligible. I've stopped trying to answer them. \n\nGodshew, if your questions were clearer, we'd be happy to answer!
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Relax? I don't think they can some of the nonbelievers don't answer with harsh words I've seen about two that simply give you their opinion like parrot, and I've Got A Ruler but some others seem to just be mean may be it's the ones who answer with mean words really don't know why they don't believe so that's why the answers are things like I don't believe because of the Christians, or God is stupid like you, or my favorite stop preaching to me, oooohhhhh but let those same ppl ask a question like Are all Christians stupid? Are you a bible Thumper? It's alrighty then....\n\n I liked the question..... after all it was simply a question.
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Amen, and God bless you.  They just don't get it.  Like I have said before, you don't have to believe it, you just have to do it.  Some feel that People who have faith in God, are weak.  They feel that  They just can't handle the world on the their own, without believing in something.  It is not understood, that chapter and verse are recited, because it is God's word, and we are not to add to, or take away from it, so we have to quote it exactly.\n\nI witness God's works every day. And for those who have never asked, and received God's blessings, how very sad.\n\nI am so happy someone verbalized this.  Good job!\n\nGod Bless
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I've been told I was upset.  For me it's not being upset, it's having questions.  Since Christians are the majority here it makes no sense for one to ask many questions about other religions as they would just get scrolled over.  Even questions about Christianity that require actual knowledge or thought get scrolled over, so most questions end up being either funny or blatant attacks.  It seems that is the only way to get heard.
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People like answers, not questions.  Answers make sense of something unstable and bring order to that instability.  If you question something, you are doing so for your own sake, but at the same time you are necessarily (though probably not intentionally) challenging someone else's sense of stability/security (since that other person would see no reason for his/her belief system to be questioned).  You're not meaning to hurt anybody else, but it's just that too many people cannot easily face a disturbance to their beliefs; they view the one who asks the question as the problem.
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Is your question why do some answer with what looks to be a book?  I've seen some answers so long, I just skipped over them.  Do they even answer the question?  Is anything left out?
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i know the theory you are talking about, yes, don't know the semantics of how it gets there.  I've notice that some of these questions on here are answered with the same thing...ex: what side of the chicken has the most feathers...a lot of people put the outside....\npeople are easily manipulated into getting them to say what you want to here or do.
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I think that some questions stir something inside of us.Some questions are controversial,while others are not.Some questions are easily answered while others are answered by text book explanations.Hmmmm I wonder how many answers this question will get?
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We don't...it's not really our job to be able to answer all the tough ones...we've experienced the Truth that Jesus offers and we in no way claim to have all the answers. God doesn't need to be explained. The Bible doesn't need to be explained. Christians don't need to be explained. It's more than a belief system, so all the questions trying to point out the inconsistencies really don't make any difference to us...it's God's thing...we've just taken His Hand.
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Yahoo answers does not reject answers or questions simply because you made reference to the bible. I do not believe you received an error message that said "error because you are using the bible as a good thing".\n\nMaybe if you told us what the error said, we could provide more help.\n\nWhatever happened to freedom of speech? - This is a private service and Yahoo could restrict speech on here if they wanted. Freedom of speech is a concept that is applied to the government not private business. That being said, Yahoo only enforces limitations when the speech violates the terms of service.
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that might have been contradicting to the ideas of some other author.  This way you can see how the Bible is tried to be manipulated by some shrewd persons. In that case where remains the authenticity of the Bible, where any body can modify any part of the Bible?
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These aren't errors, exactly, unless you're so fundamentalist that you take every single word literally. \n\nPeople today have expressions that aren't meant to be taken literally - including "to the four corners of the earth." (For example, "You're driving me crazy." Literally, this implies that I'm being driven, that I'm not already crazy, and that I'm a qualified mental health professional who can diagnose 'crazy' when I see it.)\n\nWhen certain verses appear to be incorrect, read them in context and then find other verses about the same topic to be sure how they should be interpreted. Anyone can pick a verse and question it's accuracy. For example, you could combine "Judas went and hanged himself" with "Go and do thou likewise" and come up with a pretty twisted doctrine! But is that how these verses were meant to be understood? I don't think so.