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Originally Posted by kiaora
The bit where you said how bits of the Bible could be wrong because it was written by men. God is in control. He chose his diciples, and he chose who he wanted to write the bible and he wrote it through them. sorry i'm not very good at explaining this but i don't think God would let his bible get stuffed up.
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But, man has free choice, so he couldn't be FORCED to write the Bible in a specific way. AND the Bible has been translated and re-written by scribes so many times, there were many oportunities for mistakes are prejudices to get in. Believing that the Bible today is exactly the same as the Bible written 1200 years ago is just ignorant. And which edition are you taking literally? There are tons of editions, so having more or less than others, and some translate sections in a COMPLETELY different way.
As for the story, that was like third-hand, and i was using it to make a point that perhaps God has a different sense of time than humans. Doesn't mean he can't think in human terms, like the 144 years, just that perhaps that's not what they meant with the 6 days thing. Just a different viewpoint.
And if you take the Bible so literally, do you wear clothing made from more than one fabric, and eat shellfish, and do you stone adulterers? Did you know the Bible says it's okay to sell your daughter into slavery?
If the Bible isn't taken as a general guide, then it's being used just to justify whatever behaviors one feels like performing, and is being ignored for every other part.
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Originally Posted by kiaora
since when was God described as 'she'?
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You've obviously never seen Dogma...
