[Matchett-PI]

js1138: "My conservatism is shaped by my own experience, not by what was said two hundred years ago. I respect the actions of the founding fathers (yes fathers) and I admire the power and poetry of their language, but it does not alter reality. I have nothing against the belief in a creator God, but I don't know anyone smart enough to know the mind of God in enough detail to lecture me about it. I believe the people who wrote the Bible did thge best they could to convey their knowledge of God, but they accepted slavery, even codified the rules. They did not know the mind of God."

RightWingNilla: "Well said js."

Why Bible Critics Do Not Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt

[js1138]

Yes, the Bible is difficult to understand, particularly the Commandments, the Ten and the Great. And Jesus' instructions to the wealthy man for getting to heaven are so obscure that no one at all can understand them.