I am trying to get you to look at the Bible a little more realisticly though.
Bit rich, PD, to put the Bible and reality in the same sentence. The 'Bible', in whichever version, is an attempt to distance believers from reality. To help weak and deluded people cope with the harshness of life. The very fact that it hasn`t been preserved in an unadulterated form should give pause to followers. Thus, we have Protestants waffling on about'providential preservation', Catholics ranting about infallible Popes, and the lesser lights claiming hot lines via the Holy Spirit. Apologists engage in triple reverse somersaults in the pike position to make some coherency in contradictions, scribal errors, myths and interpolations. And what does it boil down to? The rationale driving this retreat from reality is the belief that Numero Uno will make the transition from the only life we will ever have to eternal bliss. Talk about the ultimate in selfishness, regardless of whatever salves a believer employs on the road to stardom. Believe in any variety of nonsense you choose, but please don`t include reality.
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