(September 7, 2024 at 9:38 am)arealquestion Wrote: G'day all - I believe the Bible is God's Word - I wondered what you would say to that?
Which version of the Bible is the word of God? King James Bible? Jerusalem Bible? English standard version? New English Bible? Geneva Bible? American Standard version? Or some other?
Are all of the parts word of God? Like are the parts of the Bible that say the Earth is flat God's word? Or the parts that say the Earth doesn't move? Or that the Sun moves around the Earth? Or that the stars will fall from the sky on the Earth? Or the parts where donkeys and snakes talk?
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"
