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Originally Posted by Solumina
Fair enough, I doubt anyone here is going to refute that and say the bible was *poof* created by God since there are very few people who actually think it is, there are a lot of groups that think it was written through divine inspirations, which means that yes it is divine but since it was written by human hands it is still fallible.
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I think you're underestimating the sheer number of Christians who believe the bible to be the Word of God. There's a massive debate in the United States about Gay marriage because of a few lines in Leviticus. One of George Bush's (theorized) reasons for invading the middle east was to bring about the Armageddon spoken of in Revelation. A politician who isn't a Christian is all but unelectable. Yet all the while the entire thing is based around an amalgamation of stories from a bunch of savage dessert-dwelling barbarians.
Besides "Divinely inspired but fallible" is a cop-out. Precisely what sort of all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful god allows his own instruction manual to become so chock full of errors? I mean this stuff is kind of important, if you get it wrong, you wind up in a lake of fire for all eternity, and if you can't trust God's own blueprint then what can you trust?