Bible Contains "false" stories

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According to the "God Squad" the Bible isn't true:

http://www.mcall.com/business/local/all-godsquad0515may15,0,699228.story?coll=all-businesslocal-hed

-- Steve Jackson (stevejackson100@yahoo.com), May 25, 2004

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We should care why? Sorry, but I am not interested in their opinions.

Likewise, beelie Serpents couidl have, at oen time, spoken, we don't know everythign and it is itsself not wise to assume things always where as we knowthem now.

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), May 25, 2004.


Better read it again Steve. The article you linked clearly says that the Bible IS true - but that the Bible is NOT intended to be a book of science - which is right ON the money! Frankly, this is an unusually well-balanced and accurate treatment of the subject. I wonder who writes "the God Squad" anyway? Certainly not a member of a fundamentalist sect. The article also states that some Biblical stories are allegorical - teaching truth through various literary styles other than literal accounts - which again is 100% accurate.

-- Paul M. (PaulCyp@cox.net), May 25, 2004.

Paul C, what did you mean by the Bible being "teaching truth through literely styles other than literely accounts."

You know, Genisis is so strange. The begining of the Bible is practily the most mysterious. Man created in God's image? I will never understand that! Nor how Satan spoke through a serpant. Was the serpant on legs? It's curious how the text says "the serpant was the most crafty of all the creatures." What does that mean? The literal serpant or snake, or Satan? Very mysterious I say, but through other text it seems clear it was Satan.

-- Jason (Enchanted fire5@aol.com), May 28, 2004.


Sorry, I mean Paul M. LOL

-- Jason (Enchanted fire5@aol.com), May 28, 2004.

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