(September 27, 2013 at 12:13 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 12, 2011 at 5:07 pm)everythingafter Wrote: ...how can believers live their lives knowing that there just might be some in accuracies or inconsistencies? As you say, shouldn't the Bible be 100 percent perfect coming from an all-knowing, all-powerful god...Only if you insist on a strictly literal interpretation, which is a very small but highly vocal, minority of Christians. For an atheist to reflexively dismiss the Bible because it isn't 100% accurate when interpreted literally is to make the same mistake.
No, it's just obvious that the errors, contradictions and atrocities are just too great of a factor to just ignore. Defenders of the Bible can't just pick the good and reword the bad. If they do, they're ignoring what the true meaning of the Bible is. You can't just apply ad hoc theories to say the literal interpretations aren't what was truly meant. Ancient Jews didn't, and neither should modern Christians.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
