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If the Bible was authored by men, you might have a point.
God should have invented a writing course and then taken it in that case. He certainly didn't have his act together when the Bible as we know it was produced.
Interesting OP. It puts a different spin on how inaccurate stories can be because word of mouth and the passage of time.
I'll respond to Cupper's OP the way my fundamentalist mother would. "Would all of the Nixon supporters who tell the accounts of his administration been willing to die a martyr's death for a lie?" Now, we know in this case it would be a silly comparison based on our knowledge of the event, but this is still the example she would use.
I'm not saying I agree with her stances, but it may be worth a talking point. She introduced me to an apologetic's book many years ago called More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell. Even as a current nonbeliever, I found it to be a very good read, especially since he was a skeptic prior to his research and writing of the book.
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If the Bible was authored by men, you might have a point.
Er... it actually was. According to those who wrote it.
The only time the bible even suggests that a god wrote anything was the that first set of the ten commandments. Everything else was cobbled together by men, who, like Joesph Smith and Mohammed, said they were divinely inspired.
Er... it actually was. According to those who wrote it.
The only time the bible even suggests that a god wrote anything was the that first set of the ten commandments. Everything else was cobbled together by men, who, like Joesph Smith and Mohammed, said they were divinely inspired.
Er...wrong.
1 Thess 2:13
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.
2 Tim. 3:16
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
If the Bible was authored by men, you might have a point.
no one wrote the bible. no one ever sat down and said lets write the bible. the church put the bible together. they included what writings they wanted to go in the bible, and excluded what they wanted.
no one wrote the bible. no one ever sat down and said lets write the bible. the church put the bible together. they included what writings they wanted to go in the bible, and excluded what they wanted.
the people who wrote the stories or the people who put the bible together? btw, which bible are we talking about?
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