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Originally posted by R Havell@Apr 4 2005, 09:38 PM
@Hkizzle, I still do not understand why you think you have to take every word of the bible as absolute truth to be a christian.* The bible was written by people (the new testament by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and the information in them was gathered a few generations after the happening in the bible, they travelled around looking for people who witnessed miracles and speechs by Jesus and wrote down what they found out.* That is how the new testament was written, there is much space for exaggeration and mistakes, especially during translation (I don't understand what you meant by your "Hell no" comment), it was written by people and people, by their nature make mistakes.
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@R Havell
I agree with you totally from my own personal belief. I think the bible was just written by a group of men that followed a guru called Jesus around, and there have been tons of translation and exaggeration that over the years made him God.
But if we follow the real belief that the bible is the Word of God, inspired by God through these prophets, then he is an all powerful being and the word cannot be flawed. Some topics are up for interpretation. But core themes like the miracles of Christ, or the flood (which covered the entire earth), the creation of the World (6000 years ago) are not meant to be changed as we like.
As all of you have mentioned, religion changed with the times, it is not the same as 2000 years ago, and even within Christianity there are Catholics and Protestants (Baptists, Methodists, etc) and they practice many beliefs that are often completely different.
Then there are Mormons with their book, The Book of Mormon, so if we can keep "developing" religion, where does the truth go?