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To: Kansas58
Other that that, nothing else matters. Those who try to present the Bible as literal historic or scientific work, in all Books, in all arguments, actually harm the Christian Faith.

If it wasn't important, God wouldn't have written it...

36 posted on 03/09/2009 5:06:07 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
God did not write it, directly.

The Bible was written by many authors, who were inspired by God.

However, the original Editor and Publisher of the Original Bible, the Roman Catholic Church, never claimed that God wrote the Bible, or any of its separate, diverse Books, directly.

It seems odd to me, as a Catholic, that non-Catholics can question Papal authority (Which, by the way, only attaches when it is expressly applied) -— However, the same non-Catholics want to grant “infallibility” to the very HUMAN authors of the many separate Books of the Bible.

The Bible tells us how to live our lives, as the Book was intended to do.

The Bible does NOT tell us how life began, in any scientific sense, but that was never the intent, to begin with.

40 posted on 03/09/2009 5:25:06 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Iscool
God did NOT write the Bible.
Nobody with any real knowledge of Bible history says otherwise.
The Bible is inspired by God, but not written by God.

Also, to those who believe that ONLY the Bible can save your soul: For about 1,500 years after the Birth of Christ, the “Bible” in its present form did not exist, and very, very few Christians had ever come in contact with an actual Bible!

Also, hardly anything was written down, from the First Easter Sunday to at least 10 years after the Resurrection.

When people did begin to write down various books and letters and such, it was rare that one Priest would ever see more than a few different works, in his entire lifetime.

This was true for well over 1,000 years of the early Church history.

110 posted on 03/09/2009 9:54:04 PM PDT by Kansas58
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