Re: Unanswered prayers, or unintended blessings?
(This post NOT directed at anyone here.)
I have been reading the Bible for 32 years now. I find the following to be the truth:
1) The Bible was not meant to tell us HOW God did anything. It is not intended as a source of technical or scientific knowledge.
2) It IS intended to tell us WHAT God did, the whys of His way, etc.
Having said that, while there is no big pack of scientific knowledge in there, there will NOT be anything "wrong" in there, either. Take for example the old testament phrase, "He hangeth the earth on nothing".
Now, this was written over 2,000 years ago. It is hard to understand the phrase unless you know that:
... the earth is round, not flat.
... the earth DOES "hang" without any huge elephant, giant man or other wierd thing holding it up!
So, over 2,000 years ago, the Bible was describing what we now know is true: the earth is a round ball that somehow (magically to those minds back then) hangs with no "support".
I get very irritated when preachers/believers/etc. try to make the Bible a scientific text, because I don't see it as one. While, again, there will be nothing technically incorrect - I still say that I have found VERY LITTLE in it that is technical at all!!!!!
It just wasn't intended to be technical, it was intended to be aimed at the HEART.