The only reason Holy Books survive is if they are ambiguous and open to multiple interpretations. The Bible is SUPPOSED to be hard to understand.
It's written in archaic language, full of contradictions and aimed at an audience that has been dead for a couple thousand years. That's why there are five million versions of Christianity, each of which says that they have the only correct opinions about what the book says.
Yes, Exactly. And one thing I would also like to point out is every western religion have books that tell the same stories. They just tell them in different ways. These books are not historical. They where meant to be read and have there stories retold to inspire the masses who could not read. The masses who spent all day working just to survive. People who don't have the spare time to contemplate god or religion.
Even if god is the author it was man's hands who wrote the words. And men are flawed.
IIN to sometimes be uncomfortable with the Bible?
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The fault lies in the book, not you.
The only reason Holy Books survive is if they are ambiguous and open to multiple interpretations. The Bible is SUPPOSED to be hard to understand.
It's written in archaic language, full of contradictions and aimed at an audience that has been dead for a couple thousand years. That's why there are five million versions of Christianity, each of which says that they have the only correct opinions about what the book says.
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Yes, Exactly. And one thing I would also like to point out is every western religion have books that tell the same stories. They just tell them in different ways. These books are not historical. They where meant to be read and have there stories retold to inspire the masses who could not read. The masses who spent all day working just to survive. People who don't have the spare time to contemplate god or religion.
Even if god is the author it was man's hands who wrote the words. And men are flawed.