Did God Author the Bible?
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Surprisingly I think we all know what the word "repealed" means. But you said "The Magna Carta was repealed so many times as to contradict itself". It was NOT repealed because it contradicted itself. In fact, the first time any clause was repealed was 1828 - a VERY long time after it was written. Nothing to do with it contradicting itself.
If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?
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So now she's pretending she doesn't know the difference between to "contradict" and to "self-contradict".
I'm wondering how stupid she is prepared to make herself appear just to get attention.
Any bets?
I'm wondering how stupid she is prepared to make herself appear just to get attention.
Any bets?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Church in Wales inquiry after rector burns Bible pages
The Church in Wales says it is investigating after a Gwynedd rector burnt some pages from the Bible.
The Reverend Geraint ap Iorwerth of St Peter ad Vincula Church, Pennal, also cut up pages from the King James Bible to create an artwork.
Unveiling it at a church event, he said it revealed a "cruel and vile God".
The Bishop of Bangor said: "Destroying parts of the Bible we don't like is disrespectful and will offend many people."
Mr ap Iorwerth told BBC Wales he had burnt scraps of cut up the passages at the public event because he had been making a statement as part of an art experiment.
He said he had had nothing but support from people at the church near Machynlleth, close to the Gwynedd-Powys border.
He revealed his controversial piece of art at an event to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
He said: "I find it highly offensive that people would think I have given my life to serving that type of God and that I would regard the words of the King James Bible as sacred truth.
"I cut out all the nasty bits of that Bible, the language of which is being celebrated all over the place this year, because I don't think you can separate that language from the God it is representing.
"I was gobsmacked no programmes or articles are representing the cruelty, revenge and hatred of this version of God."
The artwork, which also contrasts the language of the Bible and the festive greetings of Christmas cards, is mounted on a 9ft by 7ft board.
Mr ap Iorwerth wants to show it in a gallery and also promote it as an alternative Christmas card , because he thinks it will provoke thought and discussion.
He said it is the "most-popular" version of God as cruel that he takes exception to, whereas he thinks more attention should be paid to God's life-work and the view that "God is love".
"People have told me they turned away from the real message of Jesus because of this God - that this version put lots of people off him as children.
"My version of God is Jesus, who was pure compassion and unconditional love.
"The King James Bible should be praised for its language but not for the God it represents - the two need to be separated."
He said he burnt the pages, which were the remaining scraps of those he cut up to make the display, as a "symbol of all the suffering in the world".
"The point being that some people are more concerned about destroying a few bits of pages than about those who have died after suffering."
He said he had not yet heard anything of an investigation against him and will be pursuing his own "evangelical" investigation after the summer into "how such a cruel God has so prominent a place in national life".
He said he also planned to create a "wall of shame" at the church naming all of God's "cruel actions".
The rector claimed "incredible" support from parishioners.
The Bishop of Bangor, Andy John, said destroying the Bible, or passages from it, would cause offence to many.
He said: "I have therefore written to the Reverend Geraint ap Iorwerth and will be investigating the matter further.
"There are parts of the Bible that we struggle to understand today because culturally our life is so far removed from that period in which the Bible was written.
"However, it is not given to us to pick and choose - sometimes the most challenging parts are those which we need to wrestle with most of all."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-14241857
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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It's a saner answer than you wittering on about the Magna Carta and other things of which you know nothing...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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It doesn't. It was not mean to to. It was an example, from within the church, of how even Christians do not believe the whole of the bible to be the word of god.loCAtek wrote:How does this answer the OP question?
Some quotes;
He said: "I find it highly offensive that people would think I have given my life to serving that type of God and that I would regard the words of the King James Bible as sacred truth.
"I cut out all the nasty bits of that Bible, the language of which is being celebrated all over the place this year, because I don't think you can separate that language from the God it is representing.
"I was gobsmacked no programmes or articles are representing the cruelty, revenge and hatred of this version of God."
"People have told me they turned away from the real message of Jesus because of this God - that this version put lots of people off him as children.
"My version of God is Jesus, who was pure compassion and unconditional love.
"The King James Bible should be praised for its language but not for the God it represents - the two need to be separated."
He said he also planned to create a "wall of shame" at the church naming all of God's "cruel actions".
However the Bish disagrees with hi;
The Bishop of Bangor, Andy John, said destroying the Bible, or passages from it, would cause offence to many.
"There are parts of the Bible that we struggle to understand today because culturally our life is so far removed from that period in which the Bible was written.
"However, it is not given to us to pick and choose - sometimes the most challenging parts are those which we need to wrestle with most of all."
So, two men of god, with different perspectives on what should be done with, and how the bible should be interpreted.
Did god write the bible? Well if even the leaders of the god cult disagree (and these are just two examples of such god cultists doing so,) then what sort of god wrote it. Not a very good one at best.
This sort of concept and debate requires some thought, you'd best get an adult to explain it to you.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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That perspective was already well-presented, E.G.;
Gob said, "...then what sort of god wrote it."
We just agreed, that the Bible wasn't directly written by God, so claiming the Bible isn't any good because God didn't write it; or that God isn't any good because he didn't write the Bible; is a circular Red Herring.
liberty1 wrote:The Christian view is God is the architect of the Bible, but was not the builder.
When you say something along the lines of "Alexander Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower" he didn't drive a single rivet or forge a single beam, but he defined where each rivet went and how each beam was forged.
Gob said, "...then what sort of god wrote it."
We just agreed, that the Bible wasn't directly written by God, so claiming the Bible isn't any good because God didn't write it; or that God isn't any good because he didn't write the Bible; is a circular Red Herring.