Since you like to play with the Bible so much, why don't you repent by becoming a believer of it?
I do not wish to surrender my discernment to any one set of texts, that is totally irrational.
I would FAR rather READ IT ALL and judge in wisdom of
knowledge. That is called "using God's gift of reason".
According to YOU, ANYTHING could be in the Bible and it is still valid, even if it is a LIE added by man:
Scholars didn't get into God's mind to see that He wanted that ending in there, so He had it added later.
Wow, how convenient!
No need to think critically or even rationally, just use
post-hoc reasoning and believe that ALL of history aligns to your worldview and your magical thinking. There
must be some kind of magic in that book you call Bible!
Since you like to study the Bible so much, why don't YOU stop being SO NARROW in your "studies" and read the 24 other Gospels that you missed? Oh, I see that you won't accept anything from those other books because the
Church of Rome did not accept them into the official canon of "inerrant ancient writings" and declared them to be heresies? Wow! You will get
nowhere in your studies with
that attitude.
You are an intellectual child, BADecker. At least MMH has enough critical thinking to realize that the Bible has been tampered with. You are totally into magical thinking and using post-hoc reasoning to justify your "perfect book" which is actually full of LIES added by man. Jesus tried to tell you that God's kingdom is within YOU, but you choose to think that God's kingdom of perfection is within the Bible.
What folly! You are just like those scientists who search for consciousness within the structures of the brain; you seek out the radio announcer inside the radio;
what part of "God's kingdom is within YOU" is so hard to understand? Your narrow-mindedness will not EVER lead you to KNOWLEDGE, and your faith in GOD'S WORD is in error if you think that the BIBLE is inerrant. It is NOT, and you are promoting a horrible lie that does not stand up to reason nor even basic moral scrutiny (the Binding of Isaac is an OT story that has God terrorizing a child; how could that story be true if God is morally good?).
No need to post your irrational opinion in this thread until you have faced the facts about your narrow-minded and fallacious claims about the Bible. God intervened to make that book perfect? NO WAY, THE QUALITY OF ANY ISOLATED MESSAGE DECREASES OVER TIME, AND THAT IS A LAW OF NATURE.