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Inspiration
January 14, 2012 at 2:28 pm
christians or muslims say that their religion is true because the text for the bible or Qur'an because it was inspired by god or allah. but are not all books a product of insperation yes. So if this logic is true the stephen king's book IT must be true. because it was inspired by a crazy demonic clown. sooo that clown must be true right? we all know that the crazy clown does not exist because we are smart, same should go for the bible or qur'an
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RE: Inspiration
January 14, 2012 at 2:30 pm
It's not EXACTLY the same though is it?
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RE: Inspiration
January 15, 2012 at 8:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2012 at 8:16 pm by Ziploc Surprise.)
Well in Christian fundamentalist theology they believe a small handful of people wrote the Bible. Those people were supposedly divinely anointed by god himself to write scripture. After the last book of the Bible was written god got tired of all that gibberish and stopped anointing people to write scripture. Everything that was not written by those supposedly divinely inspired is not really scripture.
This is why paring a book of the Bible to a specific author is so important. To "prove" that these people were divinely inspired by god himself to write scripture they (naturally) use passages in the Bible that state that these authors were divinely anointed by god. After all the Bible is so true that you can use it to prove itself true.
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Oh, and I forgot, the Quran and all those other books are not real or valid because none of the authors were anointed by the Christian/Jewish god to write scripture. See, problem solved. Nothing else needs to be considered. Ugh!
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RE: Inspiration
January 15, 2012 at 9:36 pm
We ARE talking about the elevation of scribes amongst a population of illiterates?? Hence scripture?
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RE: Inspiration
January 19, 2012 at 12:09 am
You should have used The Matrix as an example instead of IT.
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RE: Inspiration
January 19, 2012 at 8:00 pm
lol, i just watched the movie before posting it. lol. but good point. I just don't see why they think the the bible is inspired by god, in wich they are ready to die or give their families up for. But how puff the magic dragon is not acceptable. or the lord of the rings.
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