Given the broad range of opinion on the bible - from derision to rock-solid faith, by smarter people than you and I who have spent decades in professional study - I'm amused that you would call my observations ignorant. I doubt I'm having this debate with Bart D. Ehrman.
Me and the millions of others who have read it and not had your experience while doing so. You were apparently ready to see something that's not visible to us.
Well, all of the new testament but only once, as a youth. I suspect I haven't made the study of it that you have. I've also done sort a survey on Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity in general, Islam, and the New Age. Again: out of interest, not adherence. A sort of busman's tour of Man's search for meaning in life, as it were.
There are over 800,000 words in the King James version. You don't know it all either.
Given the broad range of opinion on the bible - from derision to rock-solid faith, by smarter people than you and I who have spent decades in professional study - I'm amused that you would call my observations ignorant. I doubt I'm having this debate with Bart D. Ehrman.
Me and the millions of others who have read it and not had your experience while doing so. You were apparently ready to see something that's not visible to us.
So we've both read bits of the bible. Why are your bits better than mine?
Well, all of the new testament but only once, as a youth. I suspect I haven't made the study of it that you have. I've also done sort a survey on Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity in general, Islam, and the New Age. Again: out of interest, not adherence. A sort of busman's tour of Man's search for meaning in life, as it were.
What distinction do you make between the old testament and the new?
Sorry - I thought I mentioned that. I've read all of the new testament but I haven't made a study of it.
What do you make of all that stuff in the old testament about slaughtering the unbelievers, all that putting to death in Leviticus?