RE: Is this a contradiction or am I reading it wrong? Genesis 5:28
March 30, 2023 at 11:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2023 at 11:58 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(March 30, 2023 at 10:02 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: In all seriousness though, just because textual ambiguities allow for multiple interpretations of a text does not mean said text can mean whatever you want it to...
They definitely don't allow you to answer simple questions, like do you believe that Jesus was magically implanted into Mary, no matter how long you study them.
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"
