the so fallible Bible

[Drich]

"God did not 'create' the bible."

If this is true, Drich, why did you jump through so many loops not more than 10 days ago to integrate the story (and that is the right word) of Genesis with current scientific theories as to the creation of the universe.

If God didn't create the Bible then whoever wrote Genesis did it off the top of their own heads.

Just because God did not write the whole bible as He did with the Ten commandments with Moses, Does not mean He did not guid the hand of those who did.

The writers were certainly not there.

Are you familiar with the book of Revelation? If you read the first few verses you will note that revelation is not a book of prophesy. It is a historical account of the end of the world. God took John of patmos and placed him in a position to record all that he saw, and told him to do his best to describe the following events. John did not live at that time, yet God gave him a oppertunity to witness it.

Genesis would have happened in a similiar way.

Wouldn't it make much more sense - if all you really need is a synopsis of the gospel to simply write the whole of the creation story off as a simpler explanation for simpler times?

Need for what? Salvation? Salvation is not the finish line, it is the starting point of the 'race.'
Books like revelation and Genesis give us insight to God. With this knoweledge comes understanding, with understanding comes the oppertunity for a deeper relationship.

Your argument in this thread seems to be the Bible isn't an exact record because it doesn't have to be. All you need is the key message.

No not even close. My repeated message is that we do not need or are we required to understand the bible and everything written in it. We are
Simply held to account for what we do understand and comprehend.

That's great an'all but the scope for misinterpretation of what the key message is must be huge, judging by the number of different variations of Christianity and how quick you are to disparage them.

Diversity in Christianity is the key to understanding it. Again we are told to do our best to worship God. Because we are all different it means our worship will be done in different ways, so as to serve our unique comperhensions of God.

You do seem to have a very confused take on your own beliefs sometimes, one that isn't consistent for any period of time.

I know what I believe and it has not changed since I have been posting on this board.
Perhaps you simply do not fully understand my beliefs because you are trying to reconsile what I have stated with your personal understanding of what 'christianity' is supposed to be.

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but they are confused because the teaching of the Bible is so self-contradictory, as I will show later.

looking forward to that.