Your version of the Bible has no resemblance to that of 2000 years ago

[Teilhard]

Originally Posted by JohnnyMack

Edited 100% sure about that ... Cut what they didn't like, amended what they wanted to enforce.

The various books collected into "the Bible" were indeed "edited" in varying degrees by their authors before the Canon was established … Scholars have long studied the history of this in what is called "Source Criticism" and "Redaction Criticism" …

So what .. ??

[JohnnyMack]

Originally Posted by Teilhard

The various books collected into "the Bible" were indeed "edited" in varying degrees by their authors before the Canon was established … Scholars have long studied the history of this in what is called "Source Criticism" and "Redaction Criticism" …

So what .. ??

SOME, mostly sexually dysfunctional RWNJs want to use the Bible to control the masses even today.

[MartinEden99]

Originally Posted by JerZ

It would actually be the PERFECT MO, a wolf in sheep's clothing. I mean if it just OUTRIGHT showed its own evil people would just point to it and go, "Holy cr*p. Avoid that thing!" But wrapped and cloaked in platitudes and full of apologetics and mindbend-esque reasoning ("God loves you! But he also loves the person who strangled your infant and threw it into a garbage can so He didn't interfere with the person's free will, I mean God doesn't want robots...because he LOVES us") and adding a sprinkling of fear masked as helpfulness and overwhelming love ("We're just warning you about hell because we love you...and God loves you too and he doesn't want to have to punish you...it would be your choice...") and now you have something that could (and did/does) sneakily enter into every conceivable aspect of culture and daily life, and does its dirty work (polarization, fear, misunderstandings, scripturally-supported abuse and so on) underhandedly.

Just a thing that makes ya go hmmmm.

ETA: I'm not trying to sit here and be inflammatory. This really is something I've wondered, and more than once.

To take it 1 additional step in the challenging of long held brainwashing...the only supernatural entity that doesn't actually lie in Genesis is, you guessed it...Satan in the form of the snake.

Luckily for us its all nonsense. But it is more of a reflection of the poorly formed moralities of the time, and evidence for the evolution of our moralities to now (which are still evolving).