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I take note of your tagline, which reads...

"The bible is either 100% true, or in it's very nature it is 100% a lie"...

Now, whose interpretation of the Bible is 100% true?...I mean, whenever I read the threads on the religion forum here at FR, there is constant disagreement on what various passages actually mean...there is even disagreement on what individual words actually mean in their particular context...so granted that the Bible is 100% true, is it true according to your specific interpretations, or it is true according to the interpretation of someone who disagrees completely with you on a number of points...if you and others cannot agree on what a particular passage in the Bible, actually means, then you all have different interpretations, which represent the truth to you...is there, then, more than one truth...many of those on the religion forum are well read, well versed, and well educated in the Bible, and yet they come to entirely different 'truths' as you call them, from the Bible...

"Now, whose interpretation of the Bible is 100% true?...I mean, whenever I read the threads on the religion forum here at FR, there is constant disagreement on what various passages actually mean"

Thats disagreement over individual understanding not interpretation. And since the anti-christians can't even agree on the meaning of "is" I don't think Christians are behind the curve here.

I do appreciate the candor of your question, and I would note that no interpretation of the scriptures in circulation today is in the script. I can however say that there is one exact, and precise meaning, and or interpretation. Though I would not say that I have a plenary understanding of every individual passage within the scriptures, nor does anyone alive today, I will say that there are several passages of the scriptures that need no "interpretation, nor explanation" for the most part, the Bible is very straight forward, and it never, I repeat never contradicts itself. Though several different "Christian" groups may indeed debate over the interpretation or theology surrounding certain passages, there is an absolute truth, as well as absolute morals. Anyone who denies this denies the very foundation of the scriptures. The word Gospel is interpreted as being truth, since the Bible refers to itself as the Gospel, then if there is just one lie within it, then it negates the claim to being the truth. Hence the Bible is either 100% true, or it is in it's entirety a lie.