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Quote by: James Because scientists like Darwin come up with theories that conflict with the Bible. The Bible says the word of God is pure. One bit of anything but truth makes it impure. So they must either realize their theories are wrong, or declare the Bible is false. |
Where does the bible say the word of God is pure?
Catholism has always practice another choice. Protestants attempted to fix religion, by interpreting the bible literally, and this is what causes the problem. Myth is not to be interpreted literally. Myth is to be understood abstractly and when the bible is intrepreted abstractly, it does not conflict with sceince. If Protestants would give up their conflict with Catholism, that would be an improvement. Catholics who rationalized the bible, found it easier to accept the earth is round and revolves the sun, than the Protestants who were trapped in a literal interpretation of the bible, when they decided to break from the Chruch.
Catholics will explain the bible is about God, and is not meant to be a scientifically or historically accurate book. They use the bible to know what is true of God, not what is true of worldly reality. I still can't go there, because I think the Hebrew understanding of God is faulted, and the later Christian belief in Satan and demons, is really faulted! Still, the Catholics can deal with science better than Protestants. And Islam does much better than Christianity. Although it begins with the same prophets and biblical stories, Islam is not based on a belief in miracles and rejected superstition.
Note: the Protestant movement began the 1500's.
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Historians believe that the church put to death about 300,000 innocent women between 1484 and 1782.
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My World Book encyclodia should clarify the Protestants, not the Cahtolics, put all these women to death. Both the Protestant Reformation and witch hunts started in Germany. Martin Luther thought government persecution of witches was necessary. Without science our Christian reality would be seeped in superstition and brutality. Perhaps we should pay more attention to the Protestant denomiations and the cultures from which they sprang. Quakers have Celtic roots and focus on the teachings of Jesus. Very different from authoritarian German Protestant demoninations, with an autocrat God, and very strong focus on the power of Satan.