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It was written by man, not God. Though the Bible does preach some respectable morals, and I wish more people would consider following them I do not believe that it should be used as a reliable source. It's kind of like writing a paper about "George Bush" using only Wikipedia (so to speak).
@kaaady - Christ taught those "respectable morals" hand-in-hand with declaring His divinity. If He was a liar or a lunatic about that, then his "respectable morals" go out the window too. There's also more historical proof and apocrypha that the Bible is historically and eventually accurate than any other literary work in the history of the world. And they keep re-affirming that with more evidence. There's a book called "Evidence That Demands a Verdict" written by a guy that set out researching the Bible and it's origins in order to prove its inaccuracy and ultimately its non-divine nature, but even though he traveled multiple countries and continents, the evidence he found only led him to believe in what he was trying to disprove. The writings and analysis he found are ALL referenced in that book, so it's clearly there for people to read, but most people don't WANT to believe because it means they have to ultimately put something above themselves, and so they claim it's all false and never go looking for the proof that someone tells them is there. So which category are you? If it could be proven to you beyond ANY doubt, would you believe?
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@Marker2ndLT - So then where does the Old Testament come into play then, because it was written between the 12th Century and the 2nd BC, before Christ's birth. Is that just forgotten and shuffled under the rug? As far as I'm concerned, you can't teach something to someone before you've been born.
Also, the New Testament was written between the years 45 AD and 140 AD, offering nearly a hundred years in between for stories to be mixed up, forgotten with age, or to be mixed up by word of tongue.
Can't forget to mention the numerous other gospels that didn't make the cut into the Bible. What makes them different and who decided what is right and wrong? If those Gospels were refused from the Bible, then how can you use the published works to base a religon on?
Though I am not sure if this is relevent -- it sure needs to be said in reguards to the non-Christian wife cheating on your best friend: Cheating can happen in any relationship. I know that adultry is considered a sin, and Christianity teaches against it but it still happens no matter who you believe in.
Plus, what ever happened to loving someone unconditionally? It seems many people forget that "religion" should not come between unconditional love.
Well you can't deny that all of those things happened, and you can't deny that they are Christians because they follow the same Bible that you do. So why not? It doesn't hurt to cause controversy to get people to think differently.
@kaaady - So...Christ caused people to think differently, and he definitely cause a TON of controversy.
I certainly can't deny that people are Christians, but you can't say AT ALL that a small deviant group speaks for ALL, let alone MOST of the group they CLAIM to represent. And the Bible they "follow" apparently is missing Galations 5: 23-26:
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another"
That fringe group certainly seems to be provacative.
And they seem to be on their high horse, so they're not very meek. Gentleness is not conveyed with "God hates fags!" "Falwell in Hell" certainly is not temperant to his family and loved ones, even if he did have some rather eccentric views on world and political events. "God is your enemy" is certainly not found ANYWHERE in the Bible. God can never be anyone's enemy except where people directly try to usurp and persecute Him, so that's a straight-up LIE. Obviously this all represents a HUGE lack of self-control as well... So we're left with love, joy, peace, goodness, and faith...so yeah any of those messages are fairly eclipsed by the LOUDNESS of the horrible message they're yelling to the world...they might as well be "bullhorn-guy" you see in crowds outside football games.
LAME. All of it. They are taking it upon themselves to impose THEIR views on the world, NOT God's.
Don't EVER associate me with those phonies...