Once again we're back to these crazy fallacies of the Bible. If we are to assume that the Bible was written by God, and God is a perfect being, then he should have known better than to write these errors that have been scientifically proven to be false.
This will only help to prove our case that the Bible is NOT the word of God, and it was written
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This line of reasoning is as faulty as fundamentalists who interpret the text as factual truth.
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Says who? Liberal religious perspectives can take this route perhaps, but there are a lot of people who insist that the bible (or the Torah, or the Koran) is the EXACT word of God.
"This line of reasoning is as faulty as fundamentalists who interpret the text as factual truth."
This argument agrees with the fundamentalist when they say 'if the text isn't literally true then the faith is bankrupt.' It just asserts that the antecedent is true, hence the conclusion must be as well, whereas the literalist thinks it's the other way around.
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That very well may be, but it doesn't mean the entire religion can be thrown out along with just one article of faith. Interpretation of text is one of the most contended issues in religion, even among practitioners, I don't see how pointing out inaccuracies brings down any religion.
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Perhaps that, in and of itself, is an indictment of religion. If there were such obvious inaccuracies in, say, a scientific theory, or a political ideology, or a philosophical frame work then surely this would be at least a major objection to these would it not? The very fact that religion is so immune to the facts seems to make it less relevant.
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The obvious next question: Why all the circomvulations and tricks and obstacles, why doesn't God show us the way directly, no middle-men, no prophets, no parables? The point here is that God doesn't want to force salvation, men must freely and willingly choose the right path.
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