(January 31, 2017 at 1:57 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote:(January 31, 2017 at 11:10 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
I like how you atheists seem to think you know the bible, but can't seem to grasp that the Bible wasn't originally written in English and therefore what you perceive as a contradiction is not so in the context of the original language.
You're absolutely right, except that even biblical scholars accept that there are contradictions.
To say the original manuscripts were pure even if contradictions exist in the translations is to reduce the bible to a provincial document not meant for those outside the original language culture. If God couldn't preserve the purity of the translations what good to me is the purity of original manuscripts meant for another people at another time?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
