If God can do something, can he make a rock so big that he can't move it?"...nonsense is still nonsense even when we talk about God" - CS LewisIsn' It's not surprising when otherwise intelligent people become contradictory lunatics when we talk about religion? Why does this happen? I have a couple of thoughts. First, often in religion, what I say/believe is tainted by what I want to be true. Now, in mathematics this is not the case. In math, I'm not tempted to believe that 2+2 is 5 because I want it to be 5. I just don't care what 2+2 is as long as I can learn the answer. But with religion we are different. I may believe that man will be the "head of the house" because I read it in the Bible, but it is simply not true that I have no interest in the outcome of that study. I want it to be true. "Ah-ha! You see, then it must not be true that the man is the head of the house," says my wife, "You only think so because you want to believe it!" Do you see the complication here? She doesn't want to believe it and I want to believe it. So is it true or not? “Well,” someone says, “for you it's true, for her it's not true.” This is nonsense. The truth does not change from person to person, unless it is truth about opinion. Either God says man is the head of the house, or He doesn't say so. [To see His response, read Ephesians 5:22-32]Recently my daughter was writing a persuasive paper for a college class. His thesis was that "blue is a better color than red". Oh really? This may be true for me, and not true for you, because it is just a matter of opinion or context, but it is not true in the broadest sense of the word truth. Complexity comes when we forget that something isn't true or false "just because I want to... middle of paper... you believe your line, I'll believe mine." or in other words, there is no Truth, but only opinions. In reality the verses are all true. You must believe, repent, and be baptized. My final testimony in this post is John 14:6 where Jesus stated "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me." Either this is true or it is not true. Is there any other way to the Father except through Jesus? To say yes is to call Jesus a liar. Contradictory and mutually exclusive things can only be true at the same time if they are opinions. In Christianity, many things are left to our opinion (for example, celebrating religious holidays - Romans 14), but many things are not, and the things that are not... are not. Be especially careful not to try to keep the peace by talking nonsense and never ever excuse your nonsense by blaming God for it.!