A thoughtful, scholarly look at the way the Bible is used and mis-used in modern society. A complex book, written over the course of centuries, translated and copied thousands of times, disagreements over meaning and significance are natural, and just because i disagree with you over meaning doesnt mean Im changing its meaning; maybe thats you. One can revere the Bible while still recognizing its flaws and inconsistencies. From the article: But the history, complexities and actual words of the Bible can’t be ignored just to line it up with what people want to believe, based simply on what friends and family and ministers tell them. Nowhere in the Gospels or Acts of Epistles or Apocalypses does the New Testament say it is the inerrant word of God. It couldn’t—the people who authored each section had no idea they were composing the Christian Bible, and they were long dead before what they wrote was voted by members of political and theological committees to be the New Testament. The Bible is a very human book. It was written, assembled, copied and translated by people. That explains the flaws, the contradictions, and the theological disagreements in its pages. Once that is understood, it is possible to find out which parts of the Bible were not in the earliest Greek manuscripts, which are the bad translations, and what one book says in comparison to another, and then try to discern the message for yourself.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:04:13 +0000
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