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bible interpretations

how can anyone logically interperate todays bible exactly as it was thousands of years ago?


  • it is greatly flawed...

    have you ever played telephone?

    you know, the childs game where you tell the person next to you something, and it ends up completely different...

    imagine a game of telephone streched over 1500-ish years, wouldn't some of the information be altered?

    there is a 12 year period where christians claim that there is no written information on jesus... which is purely and simply a lie... the catholic church REMOVED those 12 years out of the bible... they took it out because jesus got married and was living the "good" jewish life... which to the catholics, made him impure...

    now they certainly didn't want their messiah to be impure, so they "lost" those pages...

    then theres the issue of translation... first it was greek, then it passed through multiple other languages befor going to old-english, then modern english, then todays english...

    and i cant help but think that if each of the translators, and writers of the bible had made only one mistake each, would that not give the bible a hellofa lot of typos, and mis-interperitations?

    so how is it that christians can wholely interperate the bible as pure?

    as far as i know christians dont have a super-power that lets them translate and copy something ver-batem..

    in fact, if anything, they are gifted with the ability to alter and ignor logic and fact in the persuit of conversion...

    just a little somthing for you christians to wrap your head around...

    60%  Voted for by Crazyhead, Sssid, Ominee Haynes.
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  • Allegory but not worthless

    At this point, most Bible interpretations are largely allegorical and much much more of an ethical manual than a literal book. You don't read Little Red Riding Hood and believe that it's real. And, although Jesus did really exist, most normally people probably wouldn't believe that Jesus really performed all those flashy miracles. But just because we can't take it literally doesn't mean that it's not a good guide for ethical living.

    If you believe that killing, stealing, and adultery is wrong, then I suppose you could say that this book is for you. Just like how you read fables and get a lesson out of it (Turtle and Hare for example), it doesn't mean that the story really happened. But it also doesn't mean that the book doesn't have value. I'm sure that anyone who really does think that killing random people is good, or taking other people's things is acceptable, or disrespecting your parents is perfectly fine and healthy probably should be either kept under heavy watch or be removed from society to some extent just to ensure the safety of those around him or her. Christianity is much more a way of life than supernatural beliefs, but more importantly, it is the belief that such a way of living is a good way of living.

    Voted for by holloweyed.
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  • bible is extremely fundamental part.

    I do agree the fact that it has been misinterpreted. Even then, i just want to make one point. Just look at the commandment "thou shall not kill" you can easily make out that this and other commandments were preached to people who were extremely uncivilized.

    And one more important point is that jesus has clearly said that, there are a lot more which he would want to preach, but the people are not prepared for that.

    In this context, i would like to remind that, the lot more philosophy of life which jesus had talked about was already available in the part of southeast asia, which is presently called India. And one interesting fact i want to make out is that the 12 year absence of jesus was his presence in this part of the earth.

    I had definetely love to give data on this matter if anybody needs it.

    Voted for by susheel narayan.
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