(December 18, 2019 at 3:27 pm)maxolla Wrote:(December 18, 2019 at 3:14 pm)brewer Wrote: I've read the bible a few times cover to cover. I believe that this fantasy creature is everything that the bible says.
Maybe you could point out some specific scripture and we can discuss that. Here is an easy to choose from list: https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/c.../long.html
And how's the assignment going, did you hand it in yet?
Sure. We could start by recognizing that hell does not exist and never has it been depicted in the old or new testament within the original text. Yep, it was a completely made up fiction by 3rd and 4th century Christian leaders through the Vulgate translation. The Vulgate was the first translation from the original Hebrew and Greek in too Latin. Out of this translation we have derived much of the modern translations. Only recently have some modern translations begun to undo some of the misrepresentations of early translations.
Ok, so God was good enough to get the original work transferred into several people's minds and then written so that it is the inerrant work. A master work of scripture. But, that is where His power ends? He can't flex enough power to make sure the translators and councils keep the work whole? So if His power fails there, why wouldn't you just take it back a step further and realize that God has not produced a viable book that encompasses what it wants?