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- gramme0
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southern ministers used the bible to justify slavery, time and time again.
it's just plain wrong.
lemmys_wart
(Feb 27 07, 16:22)SOUTHERN MINISTERS ARE NOT GOD THEY DID NOT WRITE THE BIBLE.
I mean, are you actually trying to be thickheaded? Good grief...
- gramme0
divine to him? perhaps.
hearsay to you? absolutely.
lemmys_wart
(Feb 27 07, 16:11)Who's talking about absolute truth now?
- 23kon0
what? jesus had a son? and was buried?
:O
so the bible isnt 100% true and may be proved wrong in so many aspects of its story that was written by the church?
so is christianity all based on falsehood and storytelling?
my word! wonders never cease!
- ********0
haha, i was very close to posting a thread on this yesterday, cos i felt like a bit of flagellum baitin, just for kicks you now.
well done team!!
- ********0
is this true then? the bible condones/promotes slavery over infidels??? i thought it was the source of all moral authority??
Come on, morality can't have changed THAT much in the last 3,000 years!! Not if the biblical code is eternal....
- gramme0
children.
- lemmys_wart0
SOUTHERN MINISTERS ARE NOT GOD THEY DID NOT WRITE THE BIBLE.
I mean, are you actually trying to be thickheaded? Good grief...
gramme
(Feb 27 07, 20:20)but the people who did had slaves...
fact.
- gramme0
but the people who did had slaves...
fact.
lemmys_wart
(Feb 28 07, 10:17)The only Biblical author who was documented as having slaves was King Solomon (there is much historical evidence proving his existence, by the way).
God allowed his empire to crumble at the end because Solomon strayed from God – he worked his slaves & servants to the bone & had multiple wives.
Anyway, none of the Bible's authors were perfect by any stretch. Although Solomon, for example, had his problems, nowhere in any of his writings does he condone slavery. It was the moments of truth provided by God that his Scriptural writings stem from. There is nowhere in the Bible that actually condones slavery. Paul even goes so far as to tell slaves to try to gain their freedom if at all possible.
FACT.
I completely understand if you believe none of this, because you won't or can't or whatever. But if you try to disprove or invalidate the Bible, you'll never be able to find a loophole that can't be explained by some other part of Scripture. Especially when you're dealing with someone who has spent their whole life studying said book. Keep trying though, it might eventually make sense to you, as it did to me.
- Mimio0
Aside from the run of the mill attrocities and injustices perpetrated by God in the Bible. There are factual errors too.
Within the first chapter actually. The Bible claims that the universe was created in six days, which is false, and that the earth was created before the sun or any other celestial body, also false.
- TheBlueOne0
Actual Mimio there are two different creation stories in Genesis which contradict each other, you don't even need to bring science into it...
- Mimio0
There's two stories/tellings in much of the pentateuch. The flood story, etc. Kinda creepy.
- M0NEYCIDE0
there's a lot of crazy details about the bible. the numbers they used and geometry/astrology. historical aspects, it actually says to think about it as a story and as a number riddle in certain parts. just because it's a story doesn't mean it's not god's word, or an amazing historical relic that should be fully understood. there is truth in the bible.
- TheBlueOne0
I don't mind a little paradox/contradiction in my truth (see cat, Heisenberg's) but the whole single supreme being who gives a shit about my personal life nonsense I just don't buy...
- Mimio0
Moneycide, far too few people use the Bible that way.
- flagellum0
Mimio: your understanding of how the Old Testament works should embarrass you. Here's some remedial homework for you:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/…
http://www.christiananswers.net/…
8 year old sunday school kids could demolish your criticisms. You're going to have to aim a little higher.
- Mimio0
No need for the insults Discipler. Too bad the authors of the Bible didn't include html links to Christian apologisms.
- BonSeff0
Day One
Watery, formless planet Earth suspended in the darkness and void of space (no stars, no sun, no moon, no planets - except for Earth).
awesome, just awesome
Day 2.
Sun and unicornyou've got to be kidding me.
- driftlab0
The Bible instructs us to handle it carefully and dig deep to properly interpret it. Not fumble through it like a reckless drunkard, tearing passages out of context.
Nothing good ever comes of the latter.
- flagellum0
You a believer, driftlab? A YEC?
