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God Says Scripture Is Not Of Any Private Interpretation!!

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Sub, I understand where you're coming from.

I really do.

Lack of total agreement is a bummer.

Especially when we're supposed to be being guided by the Holy Spirit.

But that's no reason to carry an atheist card.

Especially since ... despite our (we Christians) many differences ... every Christian ever born, alive today, or ever will live believes IN THE BEGINNING, GOD.

That's 100% agreement, chief.

Join us.
 
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The problem is that there is so much in the Bible that is clearly wrong. And that answer was a dodge, a tacit way of admitting a huge problem, if not quite an admission that one was wrong.
 
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Especially since ... despite our (we Christians) many differences ... every Christian ever born, alive today, or ever will live believes IN THE BEGINNING, GOD.

That's 100% agreement, chief.

Except that y'all can't agree on who is a Christian.
 
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So who was Job talking about when he said ...

Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
God, the redeemer.


  • Isaiah 47:4
    Our Redeemer—the Lord Almighty is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.

  • Psalm 78:35
    They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

  • Job 19:25
    I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
 
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Then don't expect me to believe Job was the "kind of [Old Testament writer] who would reject the Gospel."
I don’t, never sad that. In Babylon, those scriptures which were already in existence were tampered with, reworked, exaggerated. The secular books in exestence were destroyed.
 
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In Babylon, those scriptures which were already in existence were tampered with, reworked, exaggerated. The secular books in exestence were destroyed.
Why did you do that?
 
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The people who killed Jesus did that.
I find it very hard to believe that a society of misfits could locate and eradicate all secular writings and replace them with their own version of what went on ... all within a single generation.

The activity alone should arouse suspicion.

Can you imagine a society of misfits today going around and looking for every secular writing on Thomas Edison, destroying them, then replacing them with someone else?

Going to the library, going house-to-house, going through the schools, the stores, the nursing homes, and even the outhouses, looking for any writings whatsoever on Thomas Edison ... while the people not only comply with them, but accept their replacement!?

I don't think so.

Only academia would try and pass that on us.
 
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Those secular books, which were few in that age, are mentioned within the scripture that survived but those books vanished. Besides, you believe the flood story which is far more difficult, impossible really.
 
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Those secular books, which were few in that age, are mentioned within the scripture that survived but those books vanished.
Those books were to be painstakingly copied and recopied.

Are you saying someone just walked into a scribe's office, took the book he was copying, took the parchment he was writing on, and walked out?

Then came back later with a fake book and told the scribe to, "Get to work on this."

Is that what you want us to believe?
 
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The early Catholic Church did "purge the records" a bit. There were gnostic Gospels and other works that were declared to be false teachings and they were actively suppressed. And who knows what happened with the Old Testament when we have little to no record at all of how it was written. Modern scholars put a much younger date on it in general than literalists do. There is too much evidence that much of the writings were influenced by the Babylonian captivity. That means the oldest books of the Bible were likely written around 2500 to 2600 years ago. All that they have that are older than that are some prayer fragments that look like they might have appeared in older works. Tell me, why can't we find older evidence of the Old Testament?
 
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The early Catholic Church did "purge the records" a bit.
That's not what I'm talking about.

I'm addressing the poster who called them:
The kind of men who wrote the Old Testament ...

Then later, called them:
The people who killed Jesus ...
So I assume he's referring to the Jews.

The early Catholic Church didn't exist yet.

More specifically, I'm addressing the point that all verbal plenary records, along with their copies, along with any secular references were purged in some kind of Fahrenheit 451 scenario; then replaced with fake, mythical fables, and all done within the space of a single generation, while those who were alive at the time were alive at the time.

So not only would they have had to have purged any true stories and replaced them with fables, they would have had to have killed any eyewitnesses.

And all done without drawing any suspicion on themselves.
 
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Tell me, why can't we find older evidence of the Old Testament?
Because their molecules detached and separated over time?

How many times have you had to buy a new Bible in your lifetime because you "used up" the old One?
 
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But even so, the evidence tells us that the Old Testament dates largely from about 500 to 600 BC.
 
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Because their molecules detached and separated over time?

How many times have you had to buy a new Bible in your lifetime because you "used up" the old One?
Never. And there were various ways of preserving scriptures yet they are not found. Do you think that people at that time pulled out the Torah and pored (poured?) again and again? I don't think your analogy holds water.
 
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But even so, the evidence tells us that the Old Testament dates largely from about 500 to 600 BC.
What evidence specifically?

Just give me one piece of evidence.

I'm sure it didn't come with a timestamp.
 
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What evidence specifically?

Just give me one piece of evidence.

I'm sure it didn't come with a timestamp.
I am far from being an expert in the field but it appears that dates of the Bible are determined largely by writing styles including specific forms of words that were used. And those can be dated by comparing writings of known dates that use the same forms. As you know, languages do change with time. That appears to be how they get the dates mentioned here:

Old Testament - Wikipedia

Now an older shard of pottery has been found with verses similar to Bible verses but no identical to any of them. It may push the date back a bit but it is rather doubtful if you would call this "The Old Testament" since it may be significantly different from what we call the Old Testament today:

Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier, Text Suggests

Would you accept a significantly different book as being the "Old Testament"?
 
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