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Originally Posted by Wiggum_PI
The accuracy of the New Testament manuscripts is 99.5% in comparison to Homer's Illiad which is 95% accurate. If the bible is to be discredited, then what about other ancient texts?
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Nobody is saying that ancient texts are wholly accurate. Nobody is taking the Illiad as a basis for three of the world's largest and dominanting religions and applying it to their lives and prosetylizing it, using it to justify their actions, using it to influence government and state action, etc.
Accuracy is not the rubric by which validity of the work is judged. You just have to decide for yourself whether you believe or not that something is divinely inspired and guided into the form you have today and therefore you can take as valuable to you...or not. Hopefully, you will at the same time examine the Bible at length to try to rationalize all the different facets and contradictions within it to try to figure out just what makes your religion and come to your own conclusion instead of accepting it blindly. When a great part of Christianity is the observance and discipline of your conduct and daily actions based on quoted scripture, it's not really WWJD anymore, it's what does Leviticus tell you (and should that be applied?), what does Paul tell you (and should that be applied?), etc. and if there is validity and applicability to those strictures.