(July 11, 2014 at 12:15 am)Purplundy Wrote: I feel this fits the topic of this thread.I would like to see a thread about who wrote all those books and why, and how they found their way into the Biblical cannon. There will of course be people popping up to claim that every book was divinely inspired and that nothing could have been added afterwords.
Has anyone noticed that the Bible doesn't claim infallibility, like, at all?
That makes sense. The Bible doesn't talk about itself because not a single writer expected to have his text copied down next to the words of some other guy in a different place at a different time, bound in leather, and shaken vigorously at gay people.
Unless the Holy Spirit magically possessed each author like in some sort of horror movie, the Bible is incapable of giving a coherent opinion on quite a few things.
I just think it's weird that both Christians and atheists begin arguing from the assumption that Christianity is, or should be, dictated by the words in the Bible.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.