The amazing pliability of Bible verses and the words of Christ especially, seem, to the theists to be of considerable value. I can't help but wonder, by way of example, why this might, on fact, be wrong.
Let's say, just for the moment, the words of Reverend Martin Luther King were as flexible as so much of the Bible is today. We'd have folks asserting King supported segregation, opposed integration, and repudiated non-violence in the pursuit of his cause.
Is that the Reverend Martin Luther King we know of ?
Why is the Bible (and Jesus) perceived so often as saying/attesting/witnessing the opposite of what so many plainly worded Bible verses state ??
Let's say, just for the moment, the words of Reverend Martin Luther King were as flexible as so much of the Bible is today. We'd have folks asserting King supported segregation, opposed integration, and repudiated non-violence in the pursuit of his cause.
Is that the Reverend Martin Luther King we know of ?
Why is the Bible (and Jesus) perceived so often as saying/attesting/witnessing the opposite of what so many plainly worded Bible verses state ??
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
