(February 9, 2013 at 2:13 am)catfish Wrote: I'm saying that with several different passages stating the scribes, prophets and priests lied, you have to discern what is real and what is made up. (of course you're welcome to reject all of it)
Combine that with 3 separate places in the Bible that states that God wrote his laws on the hearts of men and you have what it takes to determine right from wrong on your own irregardless of what the fundies and atheists say.
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By "right and wrong" are you referring to burnt offerings in terms of a decision of morality? If god wrote his laws on the hearts of men, then the commandments, etc. are made up. I, for instance, don't think slavery is okay. Maybe the scribes lied about god claiming to write the law on our hearts. So, yeah, I reject all of it (but not just due to contradictions). If the scribes lied in the OT, then why not the NT too?
The problem is that there is no definitive reading of the text; even if we assumed it to be fiction and suspended disbelief for that reason, we still couldn't reconcile the bible with itself...then again, that may have been your point in the first place.
