Something to tell a creationist.

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Christianity has been evolving all the time, there have been many sudden changes in the beliefs of Christianity over centuries, not just the age of enlightenment.

Any of the teachings of Jesus that contradict with the word of God are contradictions within the trinity so they are contradictions of Jesus' teachings.

Jesus
Matthew 5:38-39
"do not resist evil, but respond with love and let people keep their teeth!"

God
Leviticus 24:19-21
"an eye for an eye"

"why when people debunk(quite accurately) the bible Christians suddenly assume that it was metaphorical? " This was your context and I was disagreeing with the suddenly. As far as sudden changes in religious history, within the confines of religion's existance, I would call it more of a gradual learning curve.

A similar law is found in the ancient Mesopotamian code of Hammurabi. It's not a practice of poking out someone's eye if they poke out yours. It's a reflection of the laws of equivalency and was a significant development in the history of jurisprudence. Jesus was teaching ways to live and use the laws of the land in personal life. If there was a contradiction (which I don't see) I would side with Jesus' interpretations rather than Abraham's.

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There was obviously slavery at the time, but I am not aware of any instance where Jesus had payed slavery much thought other than using day-to-day life as a parable for the people.

He should have if he really had direct access to god's absolute perfect moral and cared about obvious violations of it. Maybe then he would be noticed by historian writers of the time. And that would have spared early christian church to interpolate fraudulent text fragment into works like that of Josephus.

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Someone else said that History is written by the victors. I don't think being crucified qualifies as a victory (in this existance). So where you see a chruch conspiracy, I see the curch trying to interject some truth back into the truth