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Do you think you'd still be a believer if the bible were more pleasant/accurate?

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Do you think you'd still be a believer if the bible were more pleasant/accurate?
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RE: Do you think you'd still be a believer if the bible were more pleasant/accurate?
May 5, 2016 at 9:40 am
(May 5, 2016 at 3:08 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote:
(May 4, 2016 at 5:37 pm)Aroura Wrote: Inaccuracies aside, there is still no evidence for any of it. If you took out all the parts that are clearly un true (the flood, the exodus from slavery, magic virgins and talking snakes) and the parts that are unpleasant, what would even be left? Jesus would have to mostly be deleted.  His magic birth, and violent death and magic rebirth are the mainstays of the story.

The entire old testament would have to go, and most of the new testament as well. So that would leave a slim volume about a man who preached to love thy neighbor. A fine thing and no harm at all to believe in. So I think the question is sort of moot.

The Jefferson bible then?
Basically, yes.
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RE: Do you think you'd still be a believer if the bible were more pleasant/accurate? - by Aroura - May 5, 2016 at 9:40 am

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