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It's time to look rationally at the Bible.

The Bible, especially the Old Testament, is a collection of stories that were passed down through hundreds of generations verbally before they were ever written. They, like any story passed down through the generations by memory alone are subject to chance, modification, bad memory, etc.

Next, there are many versions of the Bible. Which one is the Word of God is all claim to be but differ in so many ways?

What about the Gnostic Gospels. A few years ago, a few Kings decided they shouldn't be in the Bible, so they were thrown out. They tell many different stories than the King James version.

The "Bible and Only the Bible" crowd fails to realize that the Bible was not written by God. Men, with all our failings wrote the Bible. Even if they did their very best, there is certain to be discrepancies in tales that were passed down verbally for centuries.

Take a look at how, even with the ability to record events as they happen, how much all history is subject to revisionism.

Even today, we have false prophets and money-grubbing TV evangelists claiming they can find something in the Bible that supports their actions.

The problem with inaccuracies and contradictions in the Bible is not God. The problem, as always, is Man.

The Bible, especially the Old Testament, is a collection of stories that were passed down through hundreds of generations verbally before they were ever written. They, like any story passed down through the generations by memory alone are subject to chance, modification, bad memory, etc

100s?!
average generation=approx.
70 years. X 300 generations = 21,000 years.
We are talking about the OLD Testament - BEFORE Christ.
Christ was about 2,000 years ago...
I'm not buying your math on this...

What about the Gnostic Gospels. A few years ago, a few Kings decided they shouldn't be in the Bible, so they were thrown out. They tell many different stories than the King James version.

The canonization took place a LEEEEETLE further back than the KJV translation. Lol.