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Why does the Bible need to be interpreted ...
To keep ignorance from spreading, and the ignorant from self-destructing.
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... and who says it does?
Peter.

2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
 
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It is rather amazing that you missed the warning given to you in that verse.
 
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To keep ignorance from spreading, and the ignorant from self-destructing.
It's not working is it?
Peter.

2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Is that the same Peter who was an illiterate fisherman?
 
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It's not working is it?Is that the same Peter who was an illiterate fisherman?
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled;

Are you marveling too?
 
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Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled;

Are you marveling too?


No implication that they could write at all in that verse. Try again.
 
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No implication that they could write at all in that verse. Try again.
2 Peter 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

Revelation 21:5 And he said unto [John], Write: for these words are true and faithful.


Does it look to you like Peter and John were illiterate?
 
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It doesn't look like they wrote those books, either.
 
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Since those are the works that are in contention they are not evidence that Peter or John wrote them.
 
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Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled;

Are you marveling too?
No just smiling at the unlearned and ignorant men, it seems that some people will believe anything especially if it's what they want to believe.
 
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Since those are the works that are in contention they are not evidence that Peter or John wrote them.
Contention, by whom? atheists? unbelievers?

What else is old?
 
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No just smiling at the unlearned and ignorant men, it seems that some people will believe anything ...
Only today's educated elite would read something someone else claimed to have written, claim it wasn't they who wrote it, then claim the claimers couldn't write they claimed it, because ... for some odd reason not specified ... they were illiterate.

Go iron furnace!*

* Egypt, a type of the world.
 
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There is no reason to assume that Peter "claimed to have written" that passage. It is rather apparent that someone claimed to be Peter when he wrote it.
 
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There is no reason to assume that Peter "claimed to have written" that passage. It is rather apparent that someone claimed to be Peter when he wrote it.
And when they crucified him upside down (at his request), he died knowing he fooled them, didn't he?
 
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And when they crucified him upside down (at his request), he died knowing he fooled them, didn't he?

Even if he did request that it no more proves that Jesus was real than Buddhist monks lighting themselves on fire proves that Buddha is real.
 
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