Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Here's my objection: It's man-made, and heavily edited. It has historically been used by humans and institutions run by humans to control other people, usually by taking parts of it out of context and using them as an excuse for dogma. Even read as a Narrative, where it doesn't contradict itself, it still tells a story that is radically different in message than the one most Christians believe in. Jesus himself occupies a pathetically small part of the text. Everything in the Bible before Jesus is what Jesus was trying to change, and everything after the gospels is just people trying to capitalize on his popularity.

With an objection like that, you would think I'm a staunch Athiest or something, but that's not the case. I do believe in a God, and I do think that Jesus embodied everything that is good about us as a species. Was he Divine? Not for me to say. The nature of divinity itself defies mortal comprehension, so why apply labels for the sake of dogma when you're dealing with a concept you can't understand? The man tried to change things for the better, died for it, and had his message twisted by the very forces he was preaching against. A more tragic tale couldn't be told.

Kinda surprised another one of these threads popped up.

I disagree with your unsupported opinion, you claimed its man made and heavily edited, are you referring to church councils?certain text through the years? what are you referring to ? when were what is your evidence etc. You than go on claiming that many take parts of bible out of context, i agree fully, what does that have to do with anything about objections to bible, not pastors. You than claim that the text tells a story different from what most christian believe, could you give any example? any major doctrine?. it is also false to claim the bible teaches one thing,than jesus changed it all. As far as jesus divinity, either he was mad since he claimed to be god, or he was god in the flesh.