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To: Junior
The author is God regardles of who held the pen. II Tim 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,...

Now you are certainly free not to believe or accept that the Bible is God speaking to us. That's what the free will part is all about, but I doubt you will be convincing any Christians of anything different. Christians certainly recognise that various men *wrote* the Bible, as in holding the pen and putting words on paper, but it's more a matter of dictation, as it were. The author of a book is not required to write every word with his own hand, as far as I know, to still be considered the author.

1,369 posted on 02/21/2006 8:20:16 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Now you are certainly free not to believe or accept that the Bible is God speaking to us. That's what the free will part is all about, but I doubt you will be convincing any Christians of anything different. Christians certainly recognise that various men *wrote* the Bible, as in holding the pen and putting words on paper, but it's more a matter of dictation, as it were. The author of a book is not required to write every word with his own hand, as far as I know, to still be considered the author.

Perfect. You make an elegant and succinct argument on why evolution should be taught in science and creation taught in religion/theology.

1,371 posted on 02/21/2006 8:23:55 PM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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Madam, the authors of the piece claimed to have been divinely inspired. Claiming does not make it so. If Christians were to subject the Bible to the same scrutiny they visit upon biology...


1,401 posted on 02/22/2006 4:00:26 AM PST by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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