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Originally posted by Diogenes Of Pumpkintown:
These are claims that the Bible itself does not make. Where in the Bible does it claim to be the infallible, totally consistent word of God?
It is NOT necessary to believe such things to be a Christian.
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It doesn't matter whether the bible makes these claims or not! If someone applies for a job, people ask for references. They want another person, separate from the applicant and who has no vested interest in the applicant getting the job, to back up the applicant's claims.
All holy books claim they are inspired by god. (And maybe they are? Who knows?) What I say is, prove it.
But it's unlikely, in my opinion. Why would god create two sexes, for example, and give one superiority and authority over the other? A recipe for inhumanity, abuse, exploitation - disaster, in fact. And disaster is what has resulted. It's only relatively recently that women have begun to recover from the outrages perpetuated upon them by 200 years of Christianity. (Not just Christianity. Other religions have this same element.)
This kind of UTTER CRAP does lead me to believe that man (rather than woman) had more than just a hand in writing the bible. God, my Aunt Fanny. Are you Christians all simple, or something??
Much power is vested in the idea of a book which is an 'authority', which contains 'truth'. It can be used to perpetuate all kinds of injustice, and has been!
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