Im pointing out that the Bible does not tell us what you clearly would have wanted it to say!.....
A person cant take a lack of Bible verses in the Bible as a means to support something that is not found in the Bible!
An example is?...An example is that there is no place in the Bible that teaches that Jesus drove a FORD TRUCK.
So you cant in the next moment turn around and say, "Show me in the Bible where is clearly says "Jesus did not drive a Ford Truck????"!
Here is the personal rule I use when dealing with the more crazy issues that different religions and Cults come out with-
- Outstanding claims need outstanding proof -
Another example, I dont believe anywhere in the Bible it says that Jesus was married. However the Bible does tell us about the age of Jesus at several points of his life.
Now at times Jesus is old enough that many men his age were always married.
But so what???
Because the Bible never says "Jesus was married" we cant turn around and say he was married based on a LACK of supporting Bible verses!!!!
We cant say, "Show me where it says clearly, "Jesus was never married" as a way to support the idea he was married.
It
does not matter SQUAT what some university teacher might say "other people" were doing at that time!
Let me say that again-
On matters of religious Christian doctrine it
does not matter SQUAT what some university professor might think was common for "other people" at the time as a means to sneak into doctrine ideas not supported clearly from the text!
Here is another personal rule I use when dealing with crazy teachings out of some religions-
- Unless its found in the Bible, you cant use it as doctrine -
I will give you another example where people try to use a LACK of supporting Bible verses as support for their claims:
Here is a question I run into all the time:
"In the story of Genesis, where does Cain get his wife?"
Now the real answer from the Bible to this question is-
"The Bible does not tell us"
That is the only answer that you can support from the text!
No other answer is able to stand up to criticism.
All the other answers men have dreamed up to answer this question are a
big pile of FAIL because they simply will NEVER be something you can trust because there simply is nothing you can proof with the Text!!!!!!
But some people just dont care.
When talking about the subject of Cain's wife they use the lack of a Bible verse as proof of their ideas.
They say, "Well if he did not marry a sister who did he marry?"
So they have turned the question around and tried to make it look like the answer they have is "his sister" is the only answer supported by the text....and challenged us to find a verse that proves their answer wrong!!!
In other words, they dreamed-up their answer and now act as if its the only correct answer...
But the truth is that their answer is just as invented as all the other answers people have come up with for this question about Cain's wife...
all are just "ideas"....dreamed up ideas that some men bend the knee to.
Some people think that if they can get enough names on a list of people that all think the same that this must count?..........
Once again that is -
EPIC FAIL!
My final comment and conclusions:
We don't know where Cain got his wife from.
We can't teach that Jesus was ever married.
We can't teach we know the age of Mary at any point of her story.
Thus.....
Any Mormon today that hopes to put a better "look" to the many perversions of their founder Joe Smith, can not try to use the life of the mother of Jesus in their misguided effort!
Here is another personal rule I use when I think about all that I teach-
- The good Christian Bible students cant teach as doctrine ideas that are not found in the Bible -!