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No, because my reading of it is not going to affect the progress of civilization either positively or negatively. It doesn't do anything for me personally.
"Hence, because the Holy Ghost employed men as His instruments, we cannot therefore say that it was these inspired instruments who, perchance, have fallen into error, and not the primary author. For, by supernatural power, He so moved and impelled them to write -- He was so present to them -- that the things which He ordered, and those only, they, first, rightly understood, then willed faithfully to write down, and finally expressed in apt words and with infallible truth. Otherwise, it could not be said that He was the Author of the entire Scripture."
God is the author of the scriptures. The bible is refered to as the "Word of God". The writters were human and each were also able to express their own human personalities through the written word. So, God did not erradicate the human while allowing the human to write his word. Just like Jesus Christ (who is called the word) is fully human and fully God seemless, the same is for the bible, Fully God's word, yet fully written by man.
God is the author of the scriptures. The bible is refered to as the "Word of God". The writters were human and each were also able to express their own human personalities through the written word. So, God did not erradicate the human while allowing the human to write his word. Just like Jesus Christ (who is called the word) is fully human and fully God seemless, the same is for the bible, Fully God's word, yet fully written by man.
God is the author of the scriptures. The bible is refered to as the "Word of God". The writters were human and each were also able to express their own human personalities through the written word. So, God did not erradicate the human while allowing the human to write his word. Just like Jesus Christ (who is called the word) is fully human and fully God seemless, the same is for the bible, Fully God's word, yet fully written by man.
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If you claim that is true, then you are choosing to believe the expression of "their own human personalities through the written word" not necessarily the word of God.
>>So, God did not erradicate the human while allowing the human to write his word.<<
Yes he did. If not, then the product is human, not divine.
And, of course, you must disagree with the following
"Hence, because the Holy Ghost employed men as His instruments, we cannot therefore say that it was these inspired instruments who, perchance, have fallen into error, and not the primary author. For, by supernatural power, He so moved and impelled them to write -- He was so present to them -- that the things which He ordered, and those only, they, first, rightly understood, then willed faithfully to write down, and finally expressed in apt words and with infallible truth."
Here you are confusing the word of God (scripture) with the Word of God (the Logos).
The Logos was the "builder god," the firstborn of all creation. The concept was developed by Plato, popularized by the Jewish philosopher Philo about Jesus' time, and taken up by the New Testament writers.
God is the author of the scriptures. The bible is refered to as the "Word of God". The writters were human and each were also able to express their own human personalities through the written word. So, God did not erradicate the human while allowing the human to write his word. Just like Jesus Christ (who is called the word) is fully human and fully God seemless, the same is for the bible, Fully God's word, yet fully written by man.
And you have so many examples on which to base this ludicrous claim of God protecting things from human flaws and corruptions . . . Riiiiiiight!!! Such magical thinkers are still wallowing in primitive ignorance and superstitions. Isn't 2000+ years well past time to mature beyond such juvenile beliefs?
And you have so many examples on which to base this ludicrous claim of God protecting things from human flaws and corruptions . . . Riiiiiiight!!! Such magical thinkers are still wallowing in primitive ignorance and superstitions. Isn't 2000+ years well past time to mature beyond such juvenile beliefs?
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Some people even think that God authored the Bible.
Mark, Luke, and John have Jesus sending for and riding one animal whan entering Jerusalem. Matthew has Jesus sending for and riding two animals when entering Jerusalem so he can "fulfill" a prophecy in Zech 9:9.
Are both versions "inspired" and therefore error free ? Or do you want to claim that someone introduced a "flaw."
In this case, Jesus really didn't fulfill the prophecy. Is that it?
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