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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
Another interesting point that I'd like to see Bible literallists address...the original texts for the gospels were written in some other language (Greek? It doesn't matter) and have gone through numerous translations and edits over the centuries, for example four gospels were included others excluded (Gospel of Thomas).
My point is that the Bible many evangelicals hold as the literal truth is an edited, revised document. Not to say it doesn't have good stuff in it someplaces, but c'mon people give your heads a shake...
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Granted, and the bible was also written by many different people over a large number of generations, and again its a document written on the premise of divine intervention. In other words, god didn't sit there and dictate to these people, but inspired them to write about thier interpretation of events that occured around them in thier own human words.
It was also overseen and kept by flawed human beings who had political agenda's at the time of thier passages.
Even if an evanglist holds a bible as a literal proof, where the argument breaks down is that those literal pages are interpreted by a man or woman with thier own view of what its trying to say. Thats why a KKK member in Kentucky believes that he can prove that the white race is the best race based on passages in the stories of Cain and Abel (sp?), or that someone else can prove with passages from the bible that god loved all of his children equally and that man no matter what color or race should be held above all.