'Being Christian' gives one the ability to Ignore Blatant #Contradictions @JWarnerWallace #ColdCaseChristianity #Contradict

True, most of the 'contradictions' are usually more like "conditions that apply differently in different circumstances" (e.g. 'killing disobedient children' might've been more-excusable back when people  on a desert-exodus were scrounging sustanence from 'the morning-mold on the sand' (a.k.a. "manna"), but is unexcusable now that we live in 'boundless abundance');

But Christians today still apply many of the old rules as if the new conditions don't modify them. See ...

hmm ... Five minutes into the video, and I'm already ... thinkin`—he's only mentioned the one 'contradiction' (he calls it an "objection"), "It seems intolerant to think that Jesus is the only way to God"; and I ... I don't even know how 'Jesus is the way to God!'

I mean, I know Jesus 'said' he is "The Way, the Truth and the Light; and no one comes to The Father but by the Son," and I know He 'died a an innocent death on the cross–paying for the natural sinfulness of humanity by blood-sacrifice–and showed that the sin-debt had been repaid by rising from the grave';

But I don't see 'The Way' that this implies for me—I mean, how does 'believing He did all that' make me any-better than a morally righteous human being who's never heard of Him? ...

• Response to his Response #1: Again, I'm not seeing how 'knowing some guy died and came back to life thousands of years ago' is somehow equal to 'going The Way which that guy became.'
  
  The detective goes on to compare it to 'doctors claiming a certain drug is the only cure to a certain disease,' and I (raised Roman Catholic) see a good reason why Eucharist/Communion/'the bread-wafers & wine/grape-juice' is a regular practice of The Roman Catholic- and a lot of other denominations of-church—a good placebo.
  
  We eat the 'bread' (transubstantiated 'body of Christ') and drink the 'wine' (transubstantiated 'blood of Christ'), and we subconsciously know that–even though we consciously know it was just 'regular food & liquid'–it became the blood & flesh of our Lord; and we are reminded that He is our brother (inspiring fictional stories of those who eat others' blood and are briefly embued with supernatural powers).
• Response to his Response #2: "What's the alternative?" My way to God. If God actually exists, he's already here! To illustrate this, I think of Psalms 139:8 (if I go to Heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Hell, you are there).
  
  And Buddhism (particularly Nichiren Buddhism) recognizes The Divine Voice—what you might call 'the will of God.'
• Response to his Response #3: ... This one confuses me as to 'which is the objection & which is the response,' as he's essentially saying "how do you know that your truth is the true truth?" And then he mentions that all truths are 'exclusive'—that we only need to talk about 'a truth' because there are 'conflicting truths' (which cannot be true at the same time as the first truth).
  
  He supports the 'truth' he's proposing–that Jesus is The Only Way to Our Father in Heaven–with an interpretation of Jesus' "I am The Way ... none comes to The Father but by me."
  
  And I object to that interpretation—he (and many other Christians) interpret Jesus' words to mean 'My blood is the sacrifice that pays for your sin-debt'; but I (and hopefully many others) read it as 'The way I live and make disciples is the way all my brothers-&-sisters should live.'

'That word' (below hyperlinked to a discussion about one-or-two popular contradictions found in The Bible) is tied into our lexicon by the group of words that serve as its roots.

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The word “Contradiction” is built on words that mean “|Against (|Contra-) + to Say, Speak (to Show, Pronounce Solemnly)” (and one of the later evolutions of the word is Object).

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