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Because I missed ST Bible Talk, and like it: a non-fiction book that is later proven to not be 100% accurate doesn't suddenly become a work of fiction

Posted by TFox Dec 9 '09, 09:38

I wholeheartedly disagree that the Bible was written with the intent to include fictional fables, even if some of what was believed to be fact thousands of years ago has now borne out to be pretty much exactly that (probably).

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- Which I think stems from the idea of "if God guided the hands of those who wrote the Bible, He surely didn't need a couple thousand years to learn." - TFox Dec 9, 09:47 9
  - But if that is true, how can any text of the bible hold any moral weight of The Word of God, if it's *always* interpreted by fallable men (or women). - musubi Dec 9, 09:49 8
    - This is why I chose the religion I did, rather than one of the older ones. Sure, I'm very inactive religiously, but I am still a card-carrying member. - Beryllium Dec 9, 09:54 3
      - Baha'i? -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 09:56 2
        
        Gesundheit. (nm) - musubi Dec 9, 10:18
        
        yes -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 10:13
    - Faith? -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 09:51
    - So then, because we are prone to fallability and mistakes, we shouldn't even try? It's not supposed to be simple. - TFox Dec 9, 09:51 2
      - Not suggesting that we shouldn't try, but how does The Church hold any weight when it's *doctrine* that is supposedly not maleable.....is? - musubi Dec 9, 09:56 1
        
        Not all churchs have doctrine that is fully immalleable (Mordor crafting alert right there). - TFox Dec 9, 09:59
honestly, I'm not even sure the concept of "fiction" even existed back then, as we know it today. - znufrii Dec 9, 09:41 9
- Let me ask you this: Do you think that satire existed back then? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 09:46
- Stephen King created fiction! -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 09:43
- You're just chock full of stuff like this aren't you? (nm) - musubi Dec 9, 09:43 3
  - If bullshit could be burned for power, we would have locked znufrii in a harvesting facility long ago, and ended our dependence on foreign oil. -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 09:48 2
    - *and* made him read from the bible. nm - Dignan Dec 9, 09:50
    - you need to lose another bet. -- nm - Beaker Dec 9, 09:48
- I... wouldn't go that far. People have been making up stories for a long long time. -- nm - TFox Dec 9, 09:42 2
  - All I'm saying is that the oral traditions of storytelling from which a lot of the OT material derives is quite different than our modern literary - znufrii Dec 9, 09:52 1
    - Are you sure... - TFox Dec 9, 09:53

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Because I missed ST Bible Talk, and like it: a non-fiction book that is later proven to not be 100% accurate doesn't suddenly become a work of fiction

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