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The problem in making sense out of the Bible is that it was written by a number of authors over a long period of time and each of them had a different point of view and style of writing. It would be like taking the essays written by random religious seminary students over many years, throwing out the ones you don't like, and putting what's left into a book and saying it came from God.
... but a habit of being tuned into each others' minds which they made into a tradition (there are better educated minds around here to say it more elaborately)... Now the contents of such communication may just have been hostility and belligerence, not so different from today's ...
How can we accept a book which condones killing people who don’t listen to priest, kill witches, kill homosexuals, kill fortunetellers, allow you to be killed for hitting your dad, killed for cursing your parents, killed for adultery, killed for fornication, killed for being another religion, killed for being a non believer, killed for being a false prophet, kill an entire town if one person worships another god, kill women who are not virgins on their wedding night, kill all blasphemers, Kill all followers of other religions, kill all infidels, kill anyone who approaches the Tabernacle, Kill all who work on the Sabbath, Kill all brats, kill the curious, kill the son’s of sinners, kill the first born in Egypt, and assorted killing of men and women mixed with the rape of some thrown in for good measure. I think it is best we reject the whole thing.
Yeah, it's pretty much a bunch of made up bs as far as I am concerned...
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It's not the number of those authors,
)... Now the contents of such communication may just have been hostility and belligerence, not so different from today's ...
