Thank you for the question, “If the Bible is filled with contradictions, what else can we depend on to gain knowledge and guidance?
If a person rejects the Bible as truthful and true, then one’s experiences and the experiences of others become the bases of knowledge and guidance.
The personal observations or experiments would lead or contribute to that person’s knowledge and guidance. His discoveries by trial and error or wisdom passed down from his/her parent or from the social beliefs. The social norms becomes a bases of one’s gaining knowledge and guidance.
As man/woman begin to write down their observations of life or their experiences, those who are able to read those writings increase in their knowledge and wisdom. In my opinion, the observations are subjective and not necessarily absolute.
For example, we once we thought that no man can travel faster than the speed of sound. Today, we think that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Is that an absolute fact? It is at this time, but who knows what will be discovered in 100 years.
One’s knowledge is based on the observations and experiences of others or of ourselves. It is subjective since it is subject to man’s interpretation of the observations of nature and of life.
SUMMARY: One will base one’s life on observations and experiences of others/oneself or on the Creator God of the Universe and of our world.
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