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In reply to the discussion: Record low take bible as literal word of God. Record high say it's collection of man written fables [View all]TheBlackAdder
(28,181 posts)33. Churches push Divinely Inspired to keep infallible man to justify its over 300 errors and conflicts.
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They tried to push that it was the work of God, but ran into issues when people questioned how God could have created such an abomination of written words. They had to fall back to divinely inspired so that humans were involved in the creation and therefore those errors were not by God.
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Record low take bible as literal word of God. Record high say it's collection of man written fables [View all]
Demovictory9
Jul 2022
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Churches push Divinely Inspired to keep infallible man to justify its over 300 errors and conflicts.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2022
#33
Hah. The Catholic Church frequently serves as an inoculant against more virulent religions.
hunter
Jul 2022
#29
I overheard my nephew beginning to question the santa clause logic.."why is SC at every mall"
Demovictory9
Jul 2022
#31
This is why the continued dominance of the GOP/Evangelical alliance is so perplexing.
tanyev
Jul 2022
#22
And the delusional will point to this as PROOF of the imminent rapture.
Ferrets are Cool
Jul 2022
#25