Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
You know, way better than me, that there are parts of the Bible that would be despicable by the moral standards of today, no?

So to be a "good" christian you will have to cherry-pick to have morals that is competable (sp?) with todays standards of morality.
Well, it depends on how you see the Bible.

If you see the Bible as a divinely inspired whole with an overarching structure which is meant to teach morality, and you're looking for God in every word you'll struggle.

But I don't see it like that - it's silly.

Even if the Bible was written on gold tablets bound with silver wire enscribed by Metatron himself, I'd still misinterpret it as soon as I read it, and even if I read it correctly I would not express it properly the first time I related it.

In that context the idea that the Bible is directly written by God is silly, maybe "God breathed" in the sense that he first spoke it, but even then it was only written by human hands.

In other words, the issue of authorship is not worth worrying about so much as the message.

As far as the message goes, if you read the books of the Bible the one thing you cannot fail to take away from it is that all God's chosen prophets fail him in some regard. Even his Angels, his children of light and not flesh, are not constant; his most beloved Angel becomes his most implaccable enemy.

Then - you have Christ, who is God and who preaches forgiveness.