(July 27, 2014 at 4:49 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Um, I thought they were divinely inspired. Surely God could keep track.Well, I don't buy into the notion that Yahweh somehow possessed random Hebrews as if he was in a prequel to Paranormal Activity. If there's some reason that I should believe that because I'm a Christian, I'd like to know.
Seems somewhere He says He is not the author of confusion.
The Bible was written by people looking for God in their lives and disseminating their discoveries to their communities. What Christianity DOES teach is that God prompts (or "inspires") people to go looking for him.
The Bible authors came to some decent conclusions, and then Jesus expanded their comparatively narrow view of what the ultimate standard of goodness would say or do.