(June 18, 2015 at 12:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: So, long story short...we can't trust that jesus actually said what the bible claims he said, or that jesus intended for his audience to take it in the way that the arbitrators of biblical truth decided to write it?
Oh we can; as long as we stick with the assumption that everything he is written to have said is a shimmering pearl of wisdom, with nothing but the best possible intentions. Rather a narrow brief, but literally everything can be made to fit by waving them away as mistranslations, out-of-context distortions, etc.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
