following an argument with my mother regarding the bible, i thought i would ask how many christians believe that the bible is the 'word of god'?
by that i mean, is your life dictated by the bible? is everything it says correct?

I don't think there are any christians that hardcore. I mean there are some who take the bible literally- i.e. they believe that god created the world in a week or w/e, but there is a lot of strange shit in there, lots of conflicting shit too. different versions, etc. I wonder what your debate was about though?

well, i don't understand how my mother can take the bible as 'holy writ', when it's been adulterated and meddled with so many times in the last 2000 years.
translated from greek to latin, latin to a hundred other languages...
and never mind the fact that the bible is now, historically, very outdated.
in historical context, it's ancient. yet it is supposed to be the word of god.

can the word of god be modernised? how can people be so arrogant to assume that they know what god wants or 'said'?

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old testament condones marriage to a second wife and stoning adulterous wives. Its all in Deuteronomy. Obviously, um, NOT CORRECT. Just sounds like a man wrote a book with cultural indiosyncrisities that could never apply to the world as a whole, of which a "book of truth" ahem, should do. If there is a god Im sure it wouldnt be so punitive and so god damn HUMAN.

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