Current Events > If the bible is the infallible word of God...

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...then how is it that the book and its message can be interpreted so differently by each person as to spawn tens of thousands of different denominations of Christianity that all disagree with one another?

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Because each of them believe theyre the right one and the others are wrong. Religion as a concept in this century is kinda dumb tbh.

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Recently I've learned that many Christians don't view the Bible as the infallible word of God. I'm starting to wonder if it's an American thing or something. I'll have to look into it more.

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there's also books that were taken out, you can ignore those, they don't matter

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Jabodie posted...

Recently I've learned that many Christians don't view the Bible as the infallible word of God. I'm starting to wonder if it's an American thing or something. I'll have to look into it more.

I don't know, my family was Roman Catholic and I can tell ya that even though we owned bibles, they just sat on the bookshelves collecting dust and no one read the damn thing.

I also just recently learned that the Catholic Bible has 6 or 7 books that the Protestants removed because they decided on their own accord that these books didn't count. wtf

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SSJKirby posted...

there's also books that were taken out, you can ignore those, they don't matter

Yeah this is what I was referring to, several books just removed and I didn't even know that until like a week ago

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It also contradicts itself several times in just the first 16 chapters of Genesis

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Most Christians don't believe that the Bible is the infallible Word of God. It was said that the Bible was not meant to be interpreted literally

In the 1970s, there began a movement named creationism that insisted that the Bible was the infallible Word of God. This infallible stuff is a modern creation that did not exist in the previous 1,970 years

idk

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xue1 posted...

Most Christians don't believe that the Bible is the infallible Word of God. It was said that the Bible was not meant to be interpreted literally

In the 1970s, there began a movement named creationism that insisted that the Bible was the infallible Word of God. This infallible stuff is a modern creation that did not exist in the previous 1,970 years

Most commentaries I've read also mention that literalism, particularly with Genesis, is actuality a relatively new phenomenon, which I find bizarre.

Phantom36 posted...

I don't know, my family was Roman Catholic and I can tell ya that even though we owned bibles, they just sat on the bookshelves collecting dust and no one read the damn thing.

I also just recently learned that the Catholic Bible has 6 or 7 books that the Protestants removed because they decided on their own accord that these books didn't count. wtf

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Yeah this is what I was referring to, several books just removed and I didn't even know that until like a week ago

Yeah, it's a difference in the Christian canon of the Old Testament vs the Hebrew canon. Before the protestant split there was a trend to refer to these books as a deuterocanon.

For a while, they were useful religious books that were not "divinely inspired" in the early days of protestants. Some protestant churches are very anti apocrypha, some aren't.

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You mean to tell me a book written thousands of years ago, edited by men and translated into many different languages is a mess that can be interpreted in any way anyone wants? Who would've thought.

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