The theology in the Bible may be always appear to be contradictory. In fact, it is a sign of contradiction, Luke 2:34. Yet, belief solely on signs should not be what Christian's believe. To the Christian the Bible is not a book but a person, "ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ," -St. Jerome.

Do we have free will if someone else knows what we will do? Of course. Whenever you look at child who is hungry for food, and put food in front of it, you know the child will want to eat it because its hungry. Well the child could also not eat it too, of which you know that as well. Still the child will choose which direction it wants to go. Whatever the child chooses, you know that the best choice, if it is hungry for food would be to consume the food and not wear it as a helmet.

Knowledge doesn't impede will. God will never bully someone into believing in Him, but He will do everything in his power to reach out to humanity always stopping short of 'making' someone believe. Hence the Bible, divine love letters from Heaven.

So how can we fully understand how can the justice of God seem to contradict mercy shown to sinners? To the Christian, we are all sinners, believers and unbelievers. Yet while we merit the eternal pains of hell, all, including those unaware of the message, Jesus has reconciled man to God. Nobody deserves or merits it. It is a gift freely offered and freely received.

The mercy of God is higher and more profound than the mercy of Man. Really, the mercy of God is justice because while He is well aware that not everybody will come to know him through the Bible, He is not not going to have it written. God is love and love will conquer death in order to be reunited with the soul of man. It is wrong that a just man die without meeting the fullness of justice Himself! It would be merciful to bring the just man, who is ignorant of Christ, to see God face to face rather than to let him perish.

To even the one who is willfully ignorant and despite all attempts from Heaven to reconcile with God, God will still be merciful and respect his free will. Its man who chooses Hell for all eternity, God simply honors the decision.

Whenever someone quotes the Bible it always tends to be out of context. First, picking up a Bible and simply reading any passage sounds nice but a problem exists even in those days on how to interpret the texts in its FULL meaning. That is with the full intent of not only the one who wrote them but also of the Holy Spirit. Christians believe that the Bible was written by men and divinely inspired. So, of course you can expect parts of the whole text to be easily read and understood and others not. Which is why someone is necessary to translate/ interpret the scriptures with respect to the overall message of the Bible itself. I invite the person who started this debate to look into ACTS 8:30 & 31.

To anyone else interested in bashing the Bible ask yourselves why? It seems like most of the conclusions from this debate, arguing that the Bible is illogical, is not from an intellectual conclusion but from a series of premises that never end. Always reasons not to believe or prove that its illogical because of a few sentences but not because of its message.

The Bible is logical, for divinity is the fullness of reason. If we define logic as reason and divinity (i.e. God) being the fullness of reason (by definition he would have to be), then the text by which man was inspired by God, would also be logical. It doesn't matter, in fact it hardly ever mattered the types of men who composed it because the Divinity behind the messenger of the Bible still delivered the all perfect Word.

The logic follows.