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To: lsee
Fascinating...do you have any use for any of that other Bible stuff?

Not really, I consider it about 10% history, 20% philosophy, 30% fantasy, and 40% vague stuff that has been interpreted 1000 different ways, hence, that many denominations from the different versions of basically the same literary work. I've heard some people even think that a large guy in a white robe, with a long white beard actually made a quill pen appear from out of the sky, and wrote it all down on paper. Of course, I learned in Religion 101, that all of it is from oral traditions that finally were set down on some sort of writing material many, many years after the events were supposed to have happened. And later, other people without a clue, or a way to get one, fought over which parts of it to include, and which parts to exclude. Then, it was translated a few times, picking up nuances along the way, and even in the English language, there are many versions of it, depending on who was holding the lever on the printing press.

So, while I have trouble taking passages like, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" (1 Tim 2:11-12) seriously, I realize that all is subject to current interpretation. I expect that before very long, someone will interpret away all of the anti-gay stuff, when it no longer shocks people to find that there are homosexual people in the world.

78 posted on 10/21/2002 11:56:43 PM PDT by hunter112
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To: hunter112
The good thing about questioning the Bible is it often drives people to search its pages for errors and in so doing, they discover the truth. Is the Bible True?

I am not a Bible scholar, and have questioned the Bible's validity and accuracy myself. In spite of my past doubts, I've discovered that life WITH Christ is infinitely better than life without Him. When I tried to save myself, I merely discovered how lost I am without God.

1 Corinthians 1:18 "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."

83 posted on 10/22/2002 8:59:00 AM PDT by lsee
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