(June 29, 2013 at 5:44 pm)catfish Wrote: lol, so this is your cop-out? Arguing from the past? No quoting scripture? No insisting that it is to be read a certain way?
You're waffling man, deal with "eternal" before you fill your posts with fluff, deflection and denial please.
I've always believed this. I was taught that the Word of God is perfect. When I first encountered someone who rejected certain books of the Bible I was shocked.
I understand why the sentiment that the Word of God is perfect originated though.
Because it makes no sense for God to give us the Bible and then let everyone fuck it up, change it, rewrite parts of it, and then we're stuck with all kinds of miscommunication.
It's a deal breaker. That's not a cop out.
Saying that God didn't give a crap about the poor people living in the backwoods in 1832 that were trying to be good little Christians but were following a fucked up Bible is a deal breaker for me.
That's not a God who gives one shit about people.
So, if you try to defend the Bible by saying it really doesn't say what it is supposed to say because God doesn't give a fuck about keeping it accurate that's a deal breaker as far as I'm concerned.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.