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To: biblewonk

I was simply making a point. Over the past several millenia, humans have been interpreting the Bible in differing ways. Heated arguments and even wars have been fought because different people have interpreted Scriptures differently. Other than your own faith, what evidence do you have that your interpretation of the Bible must be absolutely the correct one and that anything that anyone else has to say is completely without merit? As I said before, Scripture is inerrant, but humans are not. If the Bible is so easy to understand and no interpretation is required, why are there so many different opinions as to what the Bible says?


455 posted on 03/28/2005 8:48:58 AM PST by stremba
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To: stremba
I was simply making a point. Over the past several millenia, humans have been interpreting the Bible in differing ways. Heated arguments and even wars have been fought because different people have interpreted Scriptures differently. Other than your own faith, what evidence do you have that your interpretation of the Bible must be absolutely the correct one and that anything that anyone else has to say is completely without merit? As I said before, Scripture is inerrant, but humans are not. If the Bible is so easy to understand and no interpretation is required, why are there so many different opinions as to what the Bible says?

Way too many of those disagreements in interpretation are not necessary and not valid. Have you ever been a person who reads the bible everyday and has read through it 50+ times? Then found yourself in a debate with someone that is just sure they know what the bible says and has never even read it once. I don't consider this a valid difference in interpretational opinion. Then there is that whole Catholic thing where they happily supplement the bible and call it valid. Here we have 1 billion people in a ~Christian~ denomination who are all over the map in their beliefs and are convinced that the bible can't be trusted on it's own. Once again, not valid. To the outsider it just looks like everyone is reading the same amount and can't come to any agreement. That's simply not the case.

466 posted on 03/28/2005 10:02:39 AM PST by biblewonk (I wouldn't want to live like that.)
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