There may be passages within the Bible that say "Every word in the Bible is the Word of God." But that's like saying "This sentence is true," or someone writing a book about describing their visit to another planet and saying "Every word in this book is true."
Belief in God is one thing. But belief in a group of writings confuses me. How can we really know who wrote these works? How can we really know God told these authors what to write? How can we be sure God told the early church fathers what books to accept and which ones not to? If someone as powerful and all-knowing did these things, why are there so many mistakes and inconsistencies?
Wouldn't it make more sense that these author's were just pretty darned close to God, smart, loving, etc? But what they wrote is no more divine than the millions of other religious books that have been written since writing began?
2006-07-07
03:54:27
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Bill Bittner
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