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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."

Posted by TFox Dec 9 '09, 09:47

"He's God." Which, while having some merit, still lends the problem that the text needed to speak to those people too, in their terms and to their understanding of the world. Our inability to translate what all these rules mean in our new modern context is generally our own failing to distill the specificity of the document into guiding principles that apply to our modern understanding of the world.

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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

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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."

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