(November 9, 2016 at 10:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I have a .pdf version if you want to read it.
book arrived
Immediately noticed the author is Moody Bible College alum. LOL!, MBC published (and I suspect HEAVILY helped with the first draft onwards) my Tanner book, Mormonism: Shadow or Reality outlining the connivance of all that is Mormon.
And after reading just a ways into it, I note a strong similarity in some regards to seeing scriptural quotes and cross comparisons with 'things that just don't make sense' from the bible to the blizzard of citations in the Tanner tome.
One doesn't need to read very far into Jesus Interrupted to realize the concept of Biblical Inerrancy makes as much sense in reality as Xemu flying around our galaxy in a DC-8 looking for a planet with volcanoes to drop souls and nukes into.
-however-
no matter how ignorant, or brain damaged, or deluded one has to be to believe BI, aren't True Christians® stuck with it regardless ?
Once the door is opened a crack into the possibility the Bible not only contains flaws, but is absolutely riddled with them, we're going to have people, imbued with hubris and a sense they know more than the God of the Bible does leading other people with the imprimatur of God's seal of approval as to what's right and what's wrong in scripture.
And that is NOT religion. It's fraud.
There is, IMO, no First Amendment cover for that. Even Jesus, despite being in a moment of befuddlement possibly, nevertheless, intoned, "Defraud not".
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
