Dumb lawsuit, if the Word of God offends then so be it, but God isn't the one thats wrong, its the idiot who's suing thats wrong.
Funny.... last I heard, it was men who wrote down the words.
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Dumb lawsuit, if the Word of God offends then so be it, but God isn't the one thats wrong, its the idiot who's suing thats wrong.
Funny.... last I heard, it was men who wrote down the words.
You seem to forget the defense used upon that utterance. Those men, according to the Religious creed were "divinely inspired" If you do not know what that means, it means the words they wrote down were in fact not THEIR words but Gods.
Now a more accurate argument, at least against the Christian and Muslim religions would be WHO decided what got IN the book and what was left out. I do not know Hebrew/Jewish history or religion well enough to know if they had committees or sects choosing to leave out entire books because they did not like them or they did not say what the powers that be at the time wanted to hear.
And another effective argument would be how man now chooses to interpret the word of God. Actually I believe there is a passage or two that forbade "interpreting" the word of God.
You seem to forget the defense used upon that utterance. Those men, according to the Religious creed were "divinely inspired" If you do not know what that means, it means the words they wrote down were in fact not THEIR words but Gods.
Now a more accurate argument, at least against the Christian and Muslim religions would be WHO decided what got IN the book and what was left out. I do not know Hebrew/Jewish history or religion well enough to know if they had committees or sects choosing to leave out entire books because they did not like them or they did not say what the powers that be at the time wanted to hear.
And another effective argument would be how man now chooses to interpret the word of God. Actually I believe there is a passage or two that forbade "interpreting" the word of God.
You presume I believe the words were divinely inspired. Either G-d gave the tablets to Moses or he didn't. Either he wrote the words or he didn't. And if he divinely inspired the words, why didn't he make sure that when the words were translated that they were translated correctly?
If there is a passage in the bible that prohibits interpreting the word of G-d, no one has told the Jews. Our entire manner of bible study has to do with interpretation of the words. That's how we got so many rules....
Fundies hate this stuff. And I mean fundies in all religions that have revealed texts. Interpretation - hermeneutics - is apparently a challenge to faith. It's only a challenge to blind faith.
Not only that, but before the printing press the Bible was hand written and edited by thousands of nameless people, mostly marginally literate by today's standards. If one made a mistake, that mistake would have been copied over and over, or misinterpretted into something else.
The margin of error was far and wide. How did God make sure that the Bible is accurate again RGS?
No, the original texts do not exist. All of the New Testament books were second and third hand copies scribed from oral traditions.Your argument fails yet again as the ORIGINAL text still exist on scrolls and such and are maintained by the Catholic Church.
Now you could argue that the translation from Greek or what ever language was used to write the New Testament books in ( I believe it was Greek) was and still is off.
But again you fail to grasp the simple expediant answer given by religious zealots, the words were divinely inspired, God actually wrote them THROUGH the individual. Which negates any influence from the flawed man and negates any chance any errors were inserted later by man as well.
By the way, there are surviving bibles from those times. Yet no great list of errors appears to exist. Explain THAT to the Zealot.
Actually I might mean Latin.
No, the original texts do not exist. All of the New Testament books were second and third hand copies scribed from oral traditions.
Besides, all of those old Bibles will not have a list of errors because dopes like you believe they were divinely inspired. But that doesn't mean they are not filled with errors and lies. They are, and your blind faith is evidence of that.
I am also gay, and those passages in the Bible also offend me, but unlike the man involved in the lawsuit, I chose to ignore those particular passages. They cannot affect me unless I choose to allow them to affect me.
Fundies hate this stuff. And I mean fundies in all religions that have revealed texts. Interpretation - hermeneutics - is apparently a challenge to faith. It's only a challenge to blind faith.
No, the original texts do not exist. All of the New Testament books were second and third hand copies scribed from oral traditions.
Besides, all of those old Bibles will not have a list of errors because dopes like you believe they were divinely inspired. But that doesn't mean they are not filled with errors and lies. They are, and your blind faith is evidence of that.
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Dont like it? Dont read it. Thats my position.