Originally Posted by Thunderstick
Well I'm trying to help you understand why you can't understand the Bible. It's largely because your moral system will not allow you to see anything but a contradiction where you want to see one because you want to reject its message. Your mind is already closed to any logical explanation. Some of the alleged contradictions are simply resolved with a little common sense and logic. The one above is more involved.

So you have to subscribe to the bible before you can understand the bible?

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.