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Question: Parts of the Bible are divinely-inspired, but not all of the Bible is literally true, in historical or scientific understanding or even moral teaching -- and that truth from God can come from other sources besides the Bible too... (see post)
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Statilius the Epicurean
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« on: April 12, 2020, 06:38:04 AM »
« edited: April 12, 2020, 06:41:30 AM by Statilius the Epicurean »
For this kind of question I think it helps to consider that "The Bible" is itself a historical/literary construction of diverse different texts thrown in together. E.g. Paul probably wasn't writing to the Thessalonians thinking his letter was going to be later read as sacred scripture alongside Genesis. Point is some books are historical, some aren't.
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Statilius the Epicurean
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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2020, 04:32:10 AM »
If one wants to argue against the divinely inspired truth of the Bible, Christians are usually quite good at batting away single verse problems. There's more archaeological, historical, textual-critical evidence on that score which I think is fairly devastating to such a claim.
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Statilius the Epicurean
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« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2020, 04:38:38 PM »
Quote from: If you are not angry you are an ostrich. on December 22, 2020, 02:00:39 PM
Also, how important is the Hebrew part of the Bible to most Christians. Do you have to take any of it literally to be a Christian?

The Hebrew Bible is (more or less) literally half of the Christian Testament so I would say yes, probably.
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