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To understand the bible, you need to understand the cultural context of the time it was written.

There are so many different interpretations of the bible, what’s important, what’s the deeper meaning, and what you can ignore. Your interpretation is clearly different to the parent poster.

For an omnipotent being, kinda strange way to get your message across isn’t it? Even the most devout followers can’t agree what it all means, let alone everyone else.

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Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Only an issue if you believe in Sola Scriptura honestly, it’s easy to understand how easily can any message get lost, manipulated, misunderstood through the centuries.

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- EvenOdds@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Never understood how someone decided in the last 5 centuries that a book isn’t the word of God and hence should be removed.
  
  Arbitrary decisions have been made for much longer than 5 centuries about which books are in and out of the bible, and how to change the text to suit the narrative and culture of the day
  
  if there is a God how can a person understand it’s mind?
  
  That’s kinda the point. It all comes down to what “feels right” for each person, not what’s proven to be true. How do we know any interpretation is correct, and we know what’s actually in “God’s mind”? For all we know, no interpretation is correct and we all have it wrong.
  
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