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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
In all fairness, this book is thousands and thousands of years old. When you have these stories being passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, of course you are going to find contradictions. And when you have multiple authors (Mathew, Mark, Luke, John for example) writting about the life of a person (Jesus) you're going to find contradictions.
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Not to mention that the gospel authors weren't even first hand witnesses.
The Bible is FAR more interesting if you embrace the differences and start to look at where the differences come from. Instead of trying to mash the gospels together to come up with some 5th gospel with no contradictions that no one ever wrote, ask why did Luke change Mark one way and Matthew change Mark another; there's theological reasons that are very interesting.
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Originally Posted by Mtt48
Atheists who look at the bible as something other than allegory and metaphor are as silly as believers who view it is something other than allegory and metaphor.
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I don't think the atheists are looking at the Bible as something other than allegory and metaphor.. if they did they wouldn't be atheists. Something like this is in response to believers who view it as something other than allegory and metaphor.