the bible writers got it wrong when talkig about creation, about eunuchs, about women, about lots of things. Jesus is the living word not the bible. we can see in the bible a evolution of religious thought paticualry if we use the eunuchs for example.
this is the prob with so many Christians, biblical literalism when the bible cannot be taken in such as way. It is possible for the bible to get it wrong sometimes you know.
That's kind of my point. Assuming that we have discovered that the Bible is "wrong" on all these things, the most rational thing to believe is that the places where the Bible got it "right" are just coincidences. A religion cannot be wrong in so many places and still claim to be a source of divine revelation.
People who believe this would have so much more integrity if they just aknowledged that they believed there either was no literal God or that we cannot be certain of the mind of God. After all, church leaders seem to change what they believe about God every couple generations.
It would make so much more sense to just say "we don't know" when it comes to God and embrace a form of secular humanism. When church leaders tell people that God's will is one thing one generation and another the next, they are basically saying that God's will is whatever "we" (the leadership) believe now. On some level its as though they are saying that they are God (but not literally of course).
Honestly, many of the conservatives in the Anglican Communion are no better when it comes to this issue either. The hypocrisy is pretty obvious when you think about how they have condemned the ordination of gays because they are compelled to do so by the historic interpretation of the Bible. However when it comes to the ordination of women or the acceptance of divorce and other issues, suddenly they say "it's ok because our culture has changed." If it's acceptable to depart from the historic understanding of Scripture in one area, then the whole of Scripture should at least be up for reinterpretation.
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