How come people revise the bible to fit with modern understanding, but not the theory of evolution or gays?
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Actually, we are the scum of the earth, 1 Corinthians 4:13, thank you for the reminder!\n\nI don't hate gays at all.  However, having sex with someone of the same sex is a sin.  Having sex before marriage is also a sin.  \n\nI don't know what you mean by "revise the Bible to fit with modern understanding."  Actually, the opposite is true.  Since we have found more and more ancient Greek texts the Bible is actually closer to the original now than it was a few hundred years ago!
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Of course, we believed that the original Bible that given by God to Moses had already vanished in this world but if it can be found, we cannot follow what lies inside it because the born of Quran executed other Holy Books including Bible.\nWhy we should believed to a book that have been spoiled by reckless people, they manipulate everything, the changed every contents ? We could not consider Bible as the Holy Book anymore... Too many version of Bible and we don't know which one is the right ones !.
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I understand what you mean- most people choose to believe only what agrees with them. If something written says what they are doing is wrong they then decide that specific passage is not correct. They want to be seen as perfect so they pick and choose what they want to benefit them. I believe the Bible in its entirety- If you do that then you can't go wrong!
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I'm sure this is tongue in cheek, but obviously one can be christian and not think that the bible is meant to be read as literal truth in every word.  you'd go crazy reconciling the contradictions.
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The Bible is very reliable and the message has not been changed with new translations.\n\nThere is contradictions in the Bible but I would like you to ask specific contradiction so we would be able to help ou to understand.\n\nThere is very big change that the Bible will not make any sense to you if you do not let Holy Spirit in your heart to guide you.\n\nThe Bible is written by men but inspired by God.Feel free to contact me personally....and if you ask specific contradiction questions here, you will get great answers.\n\nGod bless.
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Yeah, i agree with you, and I am a Christian. Not all of us are opposed to evolution, just the conservative hicks living out in the mountains who think what they want to think and fail to analyze anything, including the Bible, very fully. Many traditional Christian beliefs are either interpreted too literally from the good book, or take their beliefs from parts of it but not the really important parts. One good example of this is gay rights: the Bible spends one sentence saying its wrong to be gay, and about a thousand pages saying that you should love everyone equally, and yet these two ideas don't seem to have equal standing at all in today's world. Most "Christians" aren't really Christians at all, they only use that name as a way to express their most violent, passionate beliefs while ignoring the true message of love and peace which Jesus tried to bring us. Oh, well. \n\nSorry... kinda got off-topic there....
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evolution bible almost an oxymoron why do you want to know???
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You are right it is there in black and white. instead of reading for themselves most allow themselves to be lead by another who most likely has his own ideas and traditions of men. and don't forget for almost all religions there is money involved. We can figure the Bible out just read it , it is so simple to understand.
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Because people dont actualy read their Bibles. Sad.
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Because the Bible was created by people. It is not straight from the lips of God. Therefore it has as many versions as there were people interested in writing about it.
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A belief in god and evolution is mainly a problem for closed-minded bible literalists...typically fundamentalists, who believe that every word in the bible is written as god intended.\n\nThe problem you face is this. If the bible isn't taken as a literal document of belief, how do you choose which bits to believe and which bits not to believe? So, is execution right or wrong...because the bible is both "for" and "against". Same for homosexuality (although not in modern terms).\n\nMost scientists I know who are christians accomodate this dilemma by using the bible as a broad belief framework - which is perfectly acceptable - and they talk about how they are able to draw their values from this position, but they keep an open mind about what science discovers and how science can help. \n\nBible literalists have a hard time trying to present their ideas without attacking science, as though science is some kind of enemy - the kind of enemy that will end up saving their lives from cancer or serious accident someday. The greatest disservice these people play in society is to present the idea to children that science is somehow seriously flawed and that nothing can ever be proven - unlike their belief system, however, which has a complete video record of god creating the earth in 6 days (sorry, that was sarcasm...something bible literalists will have a hard time understanding).\n\nTo Vangyblue below - that's the biggest pile of nonsense I've read for for at least 30 minutes. All the evidence of the failure of American education is present in your response.
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The Bible was written by ancient people who also believed  that the Earth was flat. They lacked the intelligence to comprehend the things that they wrote about and they made  mistakes.  If 21st century man witnessed the things that they saw we would not call it God. If you were alive then and had a cigarette lighter and flicked it, everyone would call you God because you could make fire come from your hands. If we all came from Adam & Eve, where did Chinese, Hispanic, or Aborigines people come from?  There are over 1 million different species of insects, how did Noah get to the Amazon Rain Forest to gather some of them? I'm not 100% certain that we came from apes but the World is loaded with religion disagreement problems because we have been forced to accept a God concept from people who had no idea as to what was going on.
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If you notice, everyone seems to have a different idea to so Fundamental a question. Everyone seems to have a different view. People can have different interpretations of the same book and this is the case of the Bible. Also the Bible has been passed on from one generation to the other by scripts who rewrote the book and made altercations on the way. No Original bible as such exists, the one we have now is a continuosly revised edition of the first. And the bible was not written in the presence of christ which is clear however you look at the fact. All Religions lead to the same end, heaven. As long as we have faith in our hearts, we dont have to worry about anything else.
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My impression from the Christians on this site (myself included) is that we are trying to at least clear up the confusion about Christianity and the Bible, but whether or not anyone is interested I can't say. \n\n My personal feeling is that if you're going to reject something, say Christ, you should at least know about what you're rejecting.  Some people do understand and reject what the Bible says, but most don't understand at all and have all kinds of pre-conceived notions that they've learned from the culture at large.
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People who say that the Bible obviously condemns homosexuality have not studied the sources very well. The simple historical fact of the matter is that many, many Biblical passages, including those which are now said to be about homosexual acts, have been interpretted and reinterpretted with the times to mean vastly different things. Add to that the fact that some translations of the Bible, such as the King James version, were rewritten in areas to fit King James' political agenda and you have one big mess. \n\nThe best way to understand the Bible is to realize that it was written thousands of years ago, and to try to interpret what it was supposed to mean during those times. Figures of speech and illusions to things that were common place and obvious back then aren't the same now. For example, many Biblical scholars agree that the old testament lines regarding "unnatural" acts between men had to do with condemning pagan rituals of the time that involved sex. Much of the old testament is dedicated to laws that would preserve Jewish culture and keep it separate from competing cultures in the area. Sodom & Gomorrah's sin was bad hospitality to travelers, NOT homosexual sex.\n\nAlso, eating shellfish and wearing fabrics made of two separate materials are considered abominations and called such in the same chapters of the Bible that condemn men laying with men. Christians are fond of saying that Jesus made the old laws obsolete, and yet they quote out of Leviticus to condemn homosexuals. What about the abominations they commit everytime they wear cotton/polyester or eat at Red Lobster? Those are easy to ignore, but when there's an easy quote to throw at gays, they'll use it.\n\nIf you're interested in a more scholarly interpretation of the Bible than what a few biggots would have you believe, please read "What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality" by Daniel Helminiak. He's not some random gay person who could be said to have an "agenda," he's a real Catholic priest.
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The bible is not to be taken literally.
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Its perfectly OK. C'mon people we are living in the 21st century now.\n\nAnd for all those, who use Bible as a weapon against homosexual desires, I'd like to tell you that its not Jesus himself that wrote it. How can you gaurantee that whosoever wrote it, did not misinterpret Jesus. \n\nIts only the "personal interpretations" of the homophobics that make it against it. Even rayburnlarry above has cited a "version" of Bible, while going against same sex love.\n\nJesus, the messiah always promoted love, understanding and accepting those who might be different from us.\n\nNothing makes God, the Jesus more happier than seeing Love rather than hatred and selfishness.