Basstrap
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I am bewildered by the amount of people who will, in response to a question, answer "because the bible says so"!! Thats not a good enough answer for anything.
You have biases I don't care who you are and medieval monks had vry very strong biases.
Does anyone here honestly believe that what is in the bible has survived 100% untouched by biases, untouched by errors in translation, untouched by biased transcribing by monks.
God inspires human -> human writes, human makes human mistakes -> mass production of bible in middle ages leads to mass transcribing, more human mistakes -> translations for other languages to read -> many mistakes were possibly made here. each translation of the bible for is probably a little different. Many words in one language have different meanings in another.
Result:
HYPOTHETICAL situation
beginnning -> drunkenness is not evil and can be tolerated if not carried away
Biases -> oh...we believe drunks are horrible people lets just change a couple words.
The point is...we as christians cannot and should not take the bible to be the be all and end all. It can be a nice foundation but we need to look inside ourselves and, as paul said "work out your own christianity".
within reason of course
I get drunk sometimes...am I going to hell. I get more friendly and I get playful and childish. I have more fun and I'm more outgoing and relaxed. If I felt like the holyspirit was condemning me for this I would stop...if I was a violent or angry drunk who would grow up to beat his wife I would certainly stop.
But I honestly feel like it in no way hinders my christianity.
I will shut-up...
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now
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end.
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I'm not living
I'm just killing time
[This message has been edited by Basstrap (edited 05-23-2002).]
[This message has been edited by Basstrap (edited 05-23-2002).]
You have biases I don't care who you are and medieval monks had vry very strong biases.
Does anyone here honestly believe that what is in the bible has survived 100% untouched by biases, untouched by errors in translation, untouched by biased transcribing by monks.
God inspires human -> human writes, human makes human mistakes -> mass production of bible in middle ages leads to mass transcribing, more human mistakes -> translations for other languages to read -> many mistakes were possibly made here. each translation of the bible for is probably a little different. Many words in one language have different meanings in another.
Result:
HYPOTHETICAL situation
beginnning -> drunkenness is not evil and can be tolerated if not carried away
Biases -> oh...we believe drunks are horrible people lets just change a couple words.
The point is...we as christians cannot and should not take the bible to be the be all and end all. It can be a nice foundation but we need to look inside ourselves and, as paul said "work out your own christianity".
within reason of course
I get drunk sometimes...am I going to hell. I get more friendly and I get playful and childish. I have more fun and I'm more outgoing and relaxed. If I felt like the holyspirit was condemning me for this I would stop...if I was a violent or angry drunk who would grow up to beat his wife I would certainly stop.
But I honestly feel like it in no way hinders my christianity.
I will shut-up...
.
.
now
.
end.
.
------------------
I'm not living
I'm just killing time
[This message has been edited by Basstrap (edited 05-23-2002).]
[This message has been edited by Basstrap (edited 05-23-2002).]