(July 2, 2015 at 1:53 pm)cercatorius Wrote: I feel that the bible is a collection of letters, poetry, fables, and word-of-mouth versions of events from history (not necessarily actual history), and a wonderful collection of myths. I do not believe it to be a guidebook, history book, or science book. I do not believe it is inerrant, nor is it the inspired word of god. I think truth can be found in parts of it. I think there is also truth in other myths (different than facts), fables, poetry, etc. I think one of the biggest tragedies is people who want to make it a continuous single piece of work. That takes a lot of perspective away in one fell swoop. In short, I think the bible is the pieced together written record of one group of people's ongoing attempt to make sense of their world and relate to the force of creation, and destruction.
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If the Bible is just a collection of works written by uninspired people, why are you a Christian at all? Why are you not some other sort of theist? It seems to me that you have rejected the foundation of Christianity, but still accept some form of Christianity. Why do that?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
