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PaulK
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Message 265 of 283 (865429)
10-25-2019 12:44 AM
Reply to: Message 264 by Faith
10-24-2019 8:56 PM


Re: Was The Snake In The Wilderness With Jesus?
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Hint: The Bible is to be read as a whole, and all its parts are to be read in the context of all the other parts of it
Hint: The Bible is a collection of works written from a variety of perspectives. Which includes reinterpretations of earlier works. What you’d call revisionism. Funny that someone who so frequently complains about revisionism would endorse it.
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Standard rules there.
Rules which are hardly sensible if you want to understand the Bible. The original audience of Genesis would have no idea of the content of Revelation.

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PaulK
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Message 267 of 283 (865434)
10-25-2019 4:07 AM
Reply to: Message 266 by Faith
10-25-2019 2:32 AM


Re: Was The Snake In The Wilderness With Jesus?
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The contemporaries of any given part of the Bible would only have it up to that part but they would have known to read it all as one piece.
The fact that they didn’t have it all is sufficient to show that the later parts are not necessary for understanding. The idea that they would not have realised that the works they had were separate and expressed differing views is just weird, why wouldn’t they know that?
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Cuz it isn't any ordinary collection of writings, they all work together in amazing ways if you understand them as God's own revelation.
I understand that you think it’s just a tool for putting your beliefs in God’s mouth. That doesn’t make it right in any sense of the word.

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