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Originally Posted by martinguerre
if you read the prophets...there is a significant amount of revision to the "smite 'em all" rhetoric. and even in the pentatuch...the first five books...there are other notes to the tune.
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Well, I've honestly only read most of exodus and the gospels. And I skimmed Revelation because 8-headed goat demons are the most amusing code I've read.
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it's something that has to be looked at in total. to speak to the topic of the thread a bit...we don't interpret the story in terms of the detail. we interpret the detail in terms of the story.
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Although sometimes you have to interpret the story. I'm hesitant to say it, because I'd rather not start another argument. But what about the creation stories? Modern science has proved them not quite accurate. And I'm sure if I read through the Bible, I could find other examples. Sometimes the story is just a story. But when interpreted, you find a moral.