Apologetics writes:
1. The Bible states that all scripture is inspired by God (2 Tim 3:16) so it is not man’s authority, but Gods. Also that no prophecy came by the will of man, but men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:21)
Which of the over 3000 versions of the Bible is the official word of God? Last time I asked this question (
Message 1), IIRC only two fundamentalists had the guts to answer. Do you?
The prominent historical people in the Bible have many of their flaws listed and exposed. If you were to write a book yourself you most likely would not record your flaws. This also shows that the Bible is inspired by God and men of God lead by the Holy Spirit wrote the scripture. The Computer did not write these words, but was the instrument that I used to convey this message to you.
It is a falsehood to state that Juvenal, Suetonius or Tacitus never said anything bad about the Romans, or Froissart about the French or English, and that is just a start right off the top of my head. You must be totally unfamiliar with all historic writing.
2. It not a hard interpretation when one reads the bible as literal history where the context allows, just as it is easy in American language to tell the difference between poetry and a narrative. The authority of a message does not change based on who hears it, but who gives the information.
Please feel free to tell us which of the over 30,000 sects of Christianity has the perfect interpretation of the officially correct version of the Bible.
Oh and BTW, welcome to EvC.
{ABE} You may want to answer these questions in a new PNT (or in the case of the first, in the linked thread) as the response may veer the rather broad OP topic(s) off course. If you are unfamiliar with how to do a PNT, and are still up for honest debate, please let me know in the next post and I can do it for you. {/ABE}
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen