The Bible is only 'Revered Creative-Speculation on a Basic Truth'
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 8, 2018 7:55am CST
Whenever I see an atheist talking about 'all the crazy stuff "The Bible says" God planned out,' I always want to reply, 'No, it's not like that. Christians say "The Bible is the inerrant Word of God," but they are literally hypocrites! (actors responding to other actors in a dramatic telling of a story)
"The Bible" is a collection of recorded wisdom 'intelligently deduced' from the basic truth (sorta the same way we know the world is spherical because of the different heights of shadows in distant places)—it's a way of teaching that basic truth to future generations without even telling them what "that basic truth" is!
'My point is; The Bible is not "a history," it's more like "a parable." (All of "factual history" is sort of "a parable" too—maybe it all "really happened," but that only matters to us because it brought us "here & now.")
It's a truth Catholics use The Rosary http://preformus.blogspot.com/2018/10/rosary-rosaries.html to remind themselves of The Truth. It's like a Bible in Beads, reminding them of that truth ... not for 'the Truth they say out-loud,' but rather 'the deeper truth that That Truth reminds them of' ... the same way 'riding a bicycle' reminds you of "the system of balance-equations you have to even-out in order to stay upright" 
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
8 Oct 18
I would also question how much of it was intended to be read by "future generations". Everything that is written has an intended audience, and usually that is someone who is alive at the time that the writing was done. It is surely a huge assumption to believe that every word of the Bible was intended to apply to people reading it thousands of years later. That is not to say that lessons cannot be learned from reading ancient texts, but they have to be read bearing the original context in mind.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
8 Oct 18
'Being read by future generations' probably wasn't the intention of most of the writers (well, the Psalms were--probably--but The Epistles were written "in expectation of the soon-returning Jesus" ... and somehow they manage to continue to believe that He's soon-returning 
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but there were The Councils that changed Scripture from 'random writings of ancient prophets' to "The Bible." Maybe they-too thought (as some people today do) that the ends was/is soon.
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but there were The Councils that changed Scripture from 'random writings of ancient prophets' to "The Bible." Maybe they-too thought (as some people today do) that the ends was/is soon.
