(December 11, 2017 at 4:00 am)Starhunter Wrote: If you find inconsistencies etc, it is up to you to find out the truth that will prove perfect consistency.
Not true because there are many different christian denominations which cling to certain rules in the bible while other denominations cling to other that are contradictory. Like divorce or some believe in transubstantiation (Catholics) while other denominations (Anglicans) find it idiotic.
(December 11, 2017 at 4:00 am)Starhunter Wrote: if you connect with God through prayer, the difficult passages will be made plain to you
so why have christian denominations warring against each-other for dogmatic truths when all they needed was to pray?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
