They look at one verse, 2 Timothey 3:16
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,”
and apply that to the entire Bible, including the letters written to different sects in different cities/regions clarifying rules to keep them from breaking apart. Kinda like from Ghost, they imagine god reaching down and writing through people I guess.
Thanks for the reply! In the end, to any reasonable adult, truth is evident from falsehood and “good words” stand by themselves. Solomon’s “everything is vanity”, Jesus’ “it’s easier for a rich man…”, James’ “faith without works is dead”, all of it just makes sense, and because they said (and did) a lot of deep shit that made sense these characters became iconic. But the words by themselves are meaningful or not! 👍
The joke is that the bible is “the word of god.”
That’s not even textually true, as many books start with “this is X, son of Y, and I’m writing to you”. But people are functionally illiterate. 🤷
They look at one verse, 2 Timothey 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,”
and apply that to the entire Bible, including the letters written to different sects in different cities/regions clarifying rules to keep them from breaking apart. Kinda like from Ghost, they imagine god reaching down and writing through people I guess.
Thanks for the reply! In the end, to any reasonable adult, truth is evident from falsehood and “good words” stand by themselves. Solomon’s “everything is vanity”, Jesus’ “it’s easier for a rich man…”, James’ “faith without works is dead”, all of it just makes sense, and because they said (and did) a lot of deep shit that made sense these characters became iconic. But the words by themselves are meaningful or not! 👍
But many believe that god was the on really writing and that the person who wrote it down merely served as gods tool