But anyway...
I've been thinking. The Bible has been around for what, 2000 years-ish? Is there any other book that's been around so long that we would trust? Any other book that we would still consider accurate? What if "God" has changed his mind over the past couple thousand years and no one told us. Maybe what's written in the Bible is obsolete. What if "God" likes homosexuals and thinks abortion is okay? WHAT IF??? You know, if "God" really didn't like those things, wouldn't he have done something by now? I think that he would've... But he hasn't. So maybe he doesn't care, or maybe he doesn't exist.
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I would feel there would be other books that have been around that are still accurate to their original text. Do I trust them to be divine revelation? I don't. Maybe some could be. Does that make me discount the bible. Not really. I hold it as the book for me. I have read extra canonical books.... the Apocrypha, the pseudepigrapha. I don't base my theology on them. Some people do. If I base my beliefs in the bible it generally says that God isn't wishy washy on certian issues. Some issues he has changed his mind on but they are not issues that diminish his character. He protects his holiness. If he dislikes a behavior its safe to say he continues to dislike it. According to the way he describes himself. Answering this from a biblical perspective, God takes care of all the things in the last day that he does not like. He used to take care of things differently in the first covenant he set up. Now there is a new covenant. I know If I were God I might would do this or that but I'm not. He say his ways are higher than ours. He lives in the past, present, and future. He just might not act like me. I could put endless what ifs in front of me and sometimes I do but I also need to have something I can go by that I trust and the bible happens to be it.
I don't see how anyone could see the Bible as an absolute to define their lives. It's different interpretations over the last 2000 have at times been grossly distorted and the Catholic church made the decision which "divinely inspired" books would make up the Bible.
It is also very apparent that even if the Bible was truly divinely inspired, it was still written by man and you can't keep a man's opinion from leaking onto the pages from time to time...Paul being a perfect example.
If you want to believe in a book "divinely inspired by God" fine, that's your delusion, ::clears throat:: decision, but at least have the mere intellect to take its writings with a grain of salt.
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