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Quote by: The Thinker What I do believe is Christians do not have the Original Bible in fact the oldest New Testament was written by the Catholic Church then rewritten by the Protestants who threw out books because they wanted their way only to be taught. Much in the Bible could not be what Jesus actually said, for example thou are Peter and I will build my Church... Clearly, back in Jesus's day that word did not exist. I really think it stand to reason the New Testament was written by the bishops of the Catholic Church and these people were very ungodly people. They issued the Inquistions, etc. The Protestants likewise had their Inquistions. When you talk to these people its all spiritualized when they can't answer. |
How about this? Everything said in the bible is human beings doing their best to explain a theology. The sources are all human thoughts on the subject, and the editors did their best to make the bible coherent but could include everything without also including disagreements. Because so many of the bible stories were told and retold, we do not know the original stories and can not be sure of what "Jesus" actually said and what the editors of the bible wanted him to say, and therefore invented as stories of what Jesus said.
In 10 minutes of playing telephone, the original message is changed. Put ten people in a line holding hands, and have the person at one end whisper a message, this person whispers the message to the next and so on until the last person announces the message, and everyone laughs because it so changed from the original message. Accepting the bible as human effort is one thing. Believing it is anything else is another.