Reply #34: The problem [View All]

[Az]

Let us assume that Jesus lived and was the son of god. Let us further assume that he did come here to preach about salvation. The moment he ascended to heaven and left his desciples behind to deal with things everything became the word of humans talking to humans. Between his falling and the actual gathering of the bible over 350 years transpired. Our nation hasn't even been around that long and our history is muddled. So any expectation that the letters and text that they voted to call the bible is a fair representation of the truth is highly subjective.

This leads us to a further problem. Its a huge book. Techicnally many books. And they do not always agree. They are not the clearest text ever written. And some of it just doesn't apply any longer. So we are not really dealing with the literal word of god here. What we are dealing with when we face a Christian is their own personal interpretation of some of the bible as filtered through their biases and perceptions.

The upshot of all this is each and every Christian is their own person. To claim that they alone hold the truth is perhaps a bit egotistic. And to claim that their source is some vault of truth is highly suspect.