Can you be a Christian and reject certain parts of the Bible?

[SnowyMacie]

Can you be a Christian and only believe some parts of the Bible? For example, can you reject a global Noah's Flood, a six-day creation, a literal exodus, etc.? Could you reject other parts as well, like Christ walking on water? Discuss.

I'm not sure how thinking the certain stories are not literal counts as rejecting them. I don't reject the Flood or Creation account, I just think that they're allegories.

 

[Galilee63]

God our Heavenly Father spoke directly to Jeremiah on His creation animals creatures explaining everything of His own Hands and Holy Power yet people still doubt? After reading Gods own Holy Words at His Marvels?

How dreadfully sad not to believe nor trust in Jesus God and The Holy Spirit and His Holy creation and Word

 

[Galilee63]

Not a judgement how very sad

Pray to receive The Holy Spirit explaining everything to you in your hearts souls prior to reading and during reading Gods Holy Word for trust in Jesus God and The Holy Spirit then you won't ever doubt Gods Holy Creation Animals of His anything again

 

[Galilee63]

Lastly God our Creator does not owe us anything we owe God our love trust desire for Him and His Holiness goodness Mercy Compassion Gratitude from hearts striving to become one in and with Jesus a part of Jesus God and The Holy Spirit thru Jesus our Merciful Saviour

God our Heavenly Father is Strict detests all sins despite loving us since conception yet He does not love sinners repeatedly sinning and this is an indication that God has not changed His times of wrath and non Mercy still sent to the earth particularly in His weather systems despatched

It is only in part climate change the ozone layer deterioration these things can be changed in an instant by God The Most High our Heavenly Father to icebergs rain freezing weather sent for years if God my Divine Majesty so chooses

The destruction of the earths atmosphere damage healed rectified in an instant by God our Heavenly Father and nothing at all is impossible for God to do in relation to any matter His Weather Systems with His Angels at Holy call sending His Wrath in Lightning Hail Tornadoes Cyclones Fire Heat Winds and yet thru Jesus when hearts pray to our Eternal Father

"O Eternal Father, I offer You The Body and Blood Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world amen",

God in His Mercy thru Jesus Precious Holy Blood ceases His Lightning Winds storms wherever I happen to be located in His Good loving Will my Jesus Mercy hears and answers every time over 6 years fires ceased at the time bringing His rain not forecast ceasing the winds where I am located or whomever prayed for in His Divine Mercy chaplet Trust and Love Jesus God and Holy Spirit and Mother Mary never to soul peril distrust Gods Blessed Holy Powers His Creation made In His Love for us with Jesus and Holy Spirit at the beginning

 

[david.d]

Indeed you CAN be a Christian and believe ANY thing you want to; EXCEPT to believe Jesus is not the Messiah (savior), not to mention God Almighty was manifest in the flesh. For if you reject Jesus as your one and only true God; then you are NOT a christian; whether you believe you are one or not.

In fact, MOST of the things that EVERY Christian believes in; is fraught with false thinking and doctrinal errors galore. Oh indeed yes. So IF we can not be a Christian and believe things that are not true, then there would be NO Christians on this planet. Nor would there ever have been one. Believe it or not.

Now to your statements "embedded" in your questions:

If I said to you, "When did you assassinate Abraham Lincoln", it would be the same as your assuming that Noah's flood was a myth; not to mention that a 6 day creation was not so.

You believe those lies, BECAUSE that is what you were taught; and you bought into it. There is NO credible evidence ON this planet that there was no "global flood". Yet there IS credible evidence that the flood was global! Nor is there any credible evidence that God did not create ALL there is in "6 days". No indeed there is not.

In addition the notion that man "evolved" from an animal has NO credible evidence on this planet. Yet, there are ALL kind of bonified evidence that man did NOT evolve from an animal. Also, there is NO credible evidence that can be substantiated; that this earth is older than 6,000 yrs old. Yet there IS credible evidence that it is NO older than 6,000 yrs old! On indeed yes. Yet MOST of the world; and growing fast as we speak: believe the earth is 4.7 billion yrs old; with every fiber of their being, sadly.

ALL who believe that, is BECAUSE they were taught that; and they fell for it. And on and on and on! Sadder: They have walked right into the traps that satan planted; and he is laughing them to scorn. Oh indeed yes.

Whether they believe it or not.

Having said that, I will state unequivocally that ALL bibles contain errors. Oh indeed there are countless errors in ALL bibles. I doubt there is a single book in any bible that does not contain errors. At the same time, there are bonified truths in many bibles. Oh indeed there are!

So how does one know for sure where the truths are and the lies begin; such as: myths, distortions, additions and subtractions? The answer is: we DON'T! And we can NOT know it........................

UNLESS..................................

The Holy Spirit of Jesus steers us around the lies, distortions, additions and subtractions to get to the truth. Oh indeed yes. I did NOT do that for almost 70 yrs of being a Christian. But 10 yrs ago, I finally did something few have ever done. IE.............

I turned it ALL over to Him. And I mean EVERY thing. I now trust NO one or thing except for Jesus. I put ALL my faith IN Him. I put NO faith in ANY book or encyclopedia, etc. Nor do I put any faith in any thing any scientist or professor says; regardless of their so-called "proofs". This goes for every newscaster on this planet AND every preacher on this planet. Etc, etc and ETC!

Again, I put ALL of my faith IN Jesus alone. Yet I am lead by HIM through His guidance (sent as the Holy Spirit) to read and/or quote bibles all the time! However, I will state; and I CAN show any one; that is being lead by the Holy Spirit; many errors in ALL bibles. If you are not lead BY the Holy Spirit, satan wins EVERY time. Oh indeed yes!

At the same time, I can show you bonified truths also. Oh indeed yes. But not one shred of this comes from me. Only from the Holy Spirit. And YOU can have this too. So can everyone, but few have EVER come close to seeking the truth from ONLY Jesus; BECAUSE we have believed in the lie that says, "ALL scripture was inspired* by God..............". And this is why there are so many foolish denominations, doctrines and other satan led myths all over the world; with doctrines as varied as snowflakes!

But satan also does the SAME thing to the scientific world; as he does to Christian preachers and their flocks. Oh indeed he does. This goes for writers of the bible also. Thus the following verse is dead WRONG:

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

NO it is not!

Paul, of course, believed that to be true. So he wrote it. But it is NOT true! The errors ARE there. ONLY a blind fool (as I was for 'circa 70 yrs) would believe such nonsense. Compare Deuteronomy 24:1 and Mathew 19:3-8. Also Mathew 1:1 and John 8:58. Not to mention Hebrews 10:26 and Mark 2:28 and 29 plus John 10:28 and 29

A few more: Compare James 2:17 and Ephesians 2:8 and 9! Both can NOT be correct. One or both are lies! Oh indeed yes. Compare Romans 1:29 in KJV vs NIV. Incidentally the NIV is correct in this case; because the words "fornication" and "debate" are NOT in the Greek scroll! Do the same with 2 Corinthians 6:14 in KJV vs NIV. Again, the KJV is dead wrong, for the word "unequally" was NOT in the Greek scroll. Bible scholars have known this for centuries but they were shouted down. Oh indeed! Do the research.

One more: In one of the "Gospels" it plainly states that Judas hanged himself. Yet in the book of Acts, it says he fell down on some rocks and his bowels gushed out. Both accounts can not be true. Look 'em up!

And on and on and on. I rest my case.

In any case, may Jesus richly bless you and yours always.

James 2:7 and Ephesians 3:8 are complimentary. You are bought (saved eternally) by grace, you have nothing to do with it, you endure (saved timely) by works in the faith. I would be careful to say either are not correct.

I'm not going to comment on the other stuff, as that is between you and God, except about Judas. Judas hung himself, Acts just explains he hung himself upside down in a field he bought and his body burst open. Either way, he hung himself. It says nothing about rocks.

 

[Brian Mcnamee]

Can you be a Christian and only believe some parts of the Bible? For example, can you reject a global Noah's Flood, a six-day creation, a literal exodus, etc.? Could you reject other parts as well, like Christ walking on water? Discuss.

Hi I think the best thing to do is take those statements that seem difficult and look into the evidence regarding them. The geological evidence for a world wide flood is substantial.
Many people think there is uniformity like the Grand Canyon being carved 1/4" a year for billions of years. The idea of catastrophic events doing that same work very quickly is dismissed. I am in California and saw how quickly solid rock can be cut away by a lot of fast moving water as I was at the Oriville dam when they ordered the evacuation. Imagine how did the water get to the top of the canyon to start its erosion? Water only goes downhill and always takes the path of least resistance. If there was a flood the high and low tides on both the way up and the way down would be like major tidal waves. there are similar canyons om every continent. I used to think it was a local flood. but water will not heap up on one half of an ocean and not be equal on the opposite end. Water would rise uniformly. When I look at the geological column which I am told is built up layer by layer very slowly over great periods of time and in that same column see upside down trees going through 30 feet or more of the column I must conclude they did not grow there upside down.
Peter speaking of the future destruction of the world reminds us of the flood. 1 Pet 3

who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited[fn] in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
2 Pet 2 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; Jesus affirmed a historical flood. “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
Hebrews Paul affirms historical flood.
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness.

The doctrines of salvation have nothing to do with your belief in the 6 day creation or the flood. The authority that there is salvation is based on the veracity of the promise of scripture. so when you deny that this is what is taught you have removed the very authority you would like to have in resting upon the life of Jesus come to take away your sins. this authority is by the word of the Lord that it is true. So its a slippery slope when you take away from the clear meaning of the text. The Bible says in the last days men will no longer endure sound doctrine. The doctrines in scripture are clear and yet this is how we see churches fly rainbow flags out front or have prayer meeting with other faiths like Islam who denies Jesus is the Son of God.

 

[Bud A]

I believe that the questions are made into two by the word believe in the first sentence and the word reject in the second.

Start with this thought. The Christian Faith has its roots in the God of the Bible in His Three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

If you reject any part of that root, you reject the Word of God and substitute your belief in place of that of God and in effect assume the same position that Adam and Eve did when they rejected the commandment of God to not eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God's Word is His Truth for the World and all of His Creation. When one picks and chooses what part of it they believe by rejecting portions they do not like, or agree with, or think is error, or believe is not true, for whatever reason, have made a choice for themselves to believe that the Bible is not the Word of God. Rejection of one part is elevation of man's opinion for the truth of God.

Believe what you will. It is your God given freedom, but my faith is that if you surrender your will and life to God by seeking His guidance when He calls, by asking Him into your life, He will come in and save you regardless of what you may earlier believed about this or really anything.

My faith is that the surrendering mans guidance fully to Christ is the key. Behold, God stands at the door and knocks, if a man will answer the knock and ask God to come in and take over the reins of his life from himself, confessing that God is the only way the only truth and the only life, (if only in a sincere hope at the time), God will come into such a one as Savior with His Rebirth, of God Alone, and change in very short order all doubts of the reality of the fact that the God of the Bible is his personal Savior, and the Savior of the World as set forth fully and completely in His Holy Word, fully and completely without error or fault.

I was a doubter. I am a lawyer and believed that unless I could have proof acceptable to at least a legal degree of proof beyond a preponderance of evidence of the entire Bible, I would not believe any of it.

God came into my life over 45 years ago, almost 50 now, and gave me the proof, His proof planted deeply in my heart, that He was exactly who the Bible said He was.

This occurred when a crisis arose in my life and I had no where to turn. I could not even speak to anyone but my mind was clear. God spoke to me and I spoke to Him in desperation. If you will just help me, I will seek you out and try to follow you for the rest of my life.

He thereafter answered in words and clear instruction and answers such as was proof to this doubting sinner and student of the law. He placed a New Testament version of His Word in my path, left on the train I commuted on at the time. I read and believed by God's Grace Alone and He Alone gave me the faith he promised in His Holy Word, for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast.

God gave the faith I did not have, and the Salvation from my sin forever more that I most desperately needed. I had no part in the process except seeking God out when He Called by His Grace Alone.

That faith and sure hope continues to this day and my faith is that it will see me through surely forever more as it is all of and from God through the Cross and Blood of His Christ Alone, by planting His Holy Spirit in my Life to guide me forever more wherever He leads and takes me by His Grace and His Faith Alone.

God Bless All, Bud A

1 Corinthians 13:12King James Version (KJV)
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

 

[rrguy]

God is God Almighty beyond human comprehension.
So accepting God is God, but rejecting parts of the Bible cause you don't know how to read the Bible is lunacy. If it doesn't make sense to you, or you can't interpret it correctly doesn't make it false.

So I'm sure you can have issues with the Bible & still be a Christian. If you can only believe the parts a man in lab coat says happened then you might have bigger issues than me?

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

What does GOD/ JESUS say in SCRIPTURE about rejecting anyone who HE sends,
or rejecting HIS WORD ?

 

[Thedictator]

Can you be a Christian and only believe some parts of the Bible? For example, can you reject a global Noah's Flood, a six-day creation, a literal exodus, etc.? Could you reject other parts as well, like Christ walking on water? Discuss.

No, Jesus is the very Word you are rejecting, (John 1) In Revelation 3:14-16 Jesus in his own words rejects the one who does not commit 100%. Christianity is a total commit or nothing. There is no fence sitters in heaven.

 

[geiroffenberg]

Can you be a Christian and only believe some parts of the Bible? For example, can you reject a global Noah's Flood, a six-day creation, a literal exodus, etc.? Could you reject other parts as well, like Christ walking on water? Discuss.

i wouldnt say you are rejecting the bible just because you dont believe in 6 day creation or global flood.
It would be foolish to claim by anyone they understand everything in the bible and the original meaning of it anyway. Lets just say ppl have a hrd time accepting a literal interpretation of many places in the bible. On the other hand many chrsitians INSIST on a literal translation of books like johns revelation, a book that is claimed by the book itself to mostly conssit of "symbols" o "sign". u see, its all foolish belifs, but not something that would make God reject you. Acceptance by god is a spiritual thing, not whether we believe in certain doctrines or not. Thats pharaseism.

 

[geiroffenberg]

What does GOD/ JESUS say in SCRIPTURE about rejecting anyone who HE sends,
or rejecting HIS WORD ?

its a big mistake to claim a different interpretation of passages in the bible si rejecting gods word. beseide,s it is the bible taht calls Jesus gods word. See how foolish it is to just constraint gods word to a book, while that same book starts out by declaring gods word is the living force that holds the universe together.

 

[surrender1]

Can you be a Christian and only believe some parts of the Bible? For example, can you reject a global Noah's Flood, a six-day creation, a literal exodus, etc.? Could you reject other parts as well, like Christ walking on water? Discuss.

Of course! If God's love for us depended on how well we can figure out what is true or not true in the bible, his love would be not any more unique than any other human being's.

 

[HEAVENS S01D13R]

But at what point in time does a "different interpretation" really become rejecting the Bible itself?

Different interpretations are those given by other men based on their understanding or belief on what it means to them.
The 6 days of creation do not mean a literal 6 days. It represents the 6000 year plan from when God created Adam till the beginning of the Millenial reign. Then the 7th day is the 7th 1000 year period symbolizing the Millenial reign of Christ. Each of the 1000 year(day) periods represend one of the days of Creation. You will have to look outside of traditional interpretations of the bible because most bible scholars and teachers really have no idea of the hidden interpretations and meanings of the scriptures. It has taken me quite a few years and countless hours of research to come to discover certain truths hidden within the scriptures.
In order to truly understand the end-times(whiich we currently are in) you need to read the book of Enoch. The Vatican denied it when creating the Canon because it was too controversial, but certain versions of the bible(like ethiopian bible) include it.

 

[Thedictator]

Well I never think about whether if was a literal six day creation or not. That has no bearing on my salvation ( in my view)
A global Noahs flood wouldn't either.
The problem you run into over Jesus walking on water us. If you reject it, you must believe the gospels contain error in them. I don't think it is easy to then build a sure and steady faith through reading gospels you believe contain error

Just my view of course

Your wrong Creation and the flood has every thing to do with salvation if you reject these things you are rejecting the very nature of God, If you do this you are creating a false idol like God, there is no salvation in false gods.

 

[Thedictator]

Of course! If God's love for us depended on how well we can figure out what is true or not true in the bible, his love would be not any more unique than any other human being's.

God does not accept Heresy.

 

[LionDog1]

Can you be a Christian and only believe some parts of the Bible? For example, can you reject a global Noah's Flood, a six-day creation, a literal exodus, etc.? Could you reject other parts as well, like Christ walking on water? Discuss.

There are numerous most Christians reject today and still claim Christianity. Example: Exodus 20:8-11 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your G-d. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” (American King James Version×). If you can't adhere and honor the Decalogue, how can you adhere to any other parts?

 

[GreekOrthodox]

Of course you can.

Protestants have rejected entire books of the Bible.

And Rome rejects books that the Orthodox Church uses, and then again maybe the Ethiopians are the only ones with the correct canon since they have the most books.

 

[KWCrazy]

I do not believe God created the world within six days. I believe God has guided the development of species.

Can you show ANY passages of Scripture to support this?

 

[marineimaging]

I hate to say it, but sometimes I come across thing in the bible that make me wonder. When I was reading the book of Mark, I noticed some things toward the end, such as:

Mark15:46
"So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb."

This seems to say that the stone covering the tomb was rolled into place by Joseph himself. How large could it have been if he was able to do it alone? But then we read:

Mark 16:2-4
2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb
3and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”
4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away.

The stones were carved and set at the entrance to a tomb so that removing the "lock" would allow one person to push it over the hole. However, the stone had a flat so that it would take a team of labor oxen to remove or open it again. They would leave severe scratches at the door, tore up ground, evidence of the oxen straining (they relieve themselves often), in other words heavy evidence that couldn't just be hidden in one night. What they found was the door rolled aside and locked open, the guards gone, and no evidence of the kind of work had been done at all.

In John verse 24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. 25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.

Think of this. God does not NEED to explain anything to you. The Bible is accepted on faith and faith alone. That is what Genesis to Revelation is about. Faith, not works. What you want it seems is to have a list of works to explain how and why God did what He did and if you don't get it they way you want it, then you wnat to reject the event according to the heretics and atheists and non believers in public schools. No, you need to accept the Word of God on Faith and not worry about how God parted the waters, or flooded the whole earth. Why concern yourself that Jesus raised Lazarus from 4 days dead, that Jesus was resurrected from death and walked alive among the living. 500 witnesses saw Jesus after His crucifixion. His coming was foretold hundreds and hundreds of years before He was born of a virgin in Bethlehem. His WHOLE being here on earth as God incarnate was a miracle from start to finish, so to reject some things is to call the Bible a lie and the authors liars and God a liar. And you think your going to be redeemed and go to heaven? Seriously?