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uriel1972

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38. Too true...

Wed May 29, 2019, 09:03 PM

May 2019

All these people say the Bible is true*, but when pressed have tended to cherry-pick and selectively quote. Then we get the literalists who will say that some of it is metaphor and poetry, but that these are clearly signposted.

I have read the Bible from go to woe ( and so much woe) at least twice and have my own opinions on what was probably meant. Probably, being the important point.

The Bible was written for various audiences at various times then put together to establish a theocracy. We don't have the same understanding and assumptions, or even the knowledge of the peoples of the past who were the various audiences, so how can we say with any confidence what it was supposed to have meant.

*for a certain value of "True"

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See Post 34. n/t Kind of Blue May 2019 #35

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