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Originally Posted by August
You need to look past all the spin and the begats and the errors in translation introduced by thousands of rewrites over several millennium and see the underlying message of the Bible, the actual divinely inspired parts...
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But how do we go about determining which parts are the errors, and which parts are the
real divinely inspired parts? It seems to me that the people that take this view tend to either:
A. find the parts that back up the views they already hold are the
real parts, or
B. find the parts that make them feel good are the
real ones.
I find neither to be particularly more reliable than just randomly drawing verses out of a hat.
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Originally Posted by August
Those are pretty good morals to teach, don't you think?
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The book (and other books) do have some good moral lessons. But to find them, you also have to pick through a ton of bad moral lessons on slavery, genocide, conquest, etc.
Besides, you are already able to tell that there are good moral lessons in the book. Why do you need the book to tell you what the good moral lessons are, if you already know they are morally good?