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Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
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RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
(January 10, 2022 at 10:08 pm)Ahriman Wrote: The Bible wasn't edited for nefarious reasons.

That depends on how you define "nefarious".  The Bible was curated by mostly Romanized Greeks sometime in the 4th century.  There were numerous disagreements on what constituted valid forms of worship and the selected works included only those deemed worthy and banned all others, which were consequently destroyed.  Recovered fragments of religious writings in the form of the Dead Sea Scrolls have confirmed as much, although we likely know only a fraction of the truth.  So its clear that the Bible we know today was heavily influenced by men who had reasons to only select certain texts and those included culture, society, power, money, sex...etc.

Further, we also know that later translations purposely emphasized certain aspects of culture with the intention of controlling people to a certain degree.  So, the notion that THE Bible is a wholly unmolested text written only through holy inspiration and carefully handed down through the ages with no tampering is a fantasy.  The fact that much of the effort that goes into developing the Bible we know today (which is still being translated in different ways, btw) with the intent to influence culture and society makes it extremely nefarious.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
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RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization - by Spongebob - January 11, 2022 at 9:26 am

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