The Bible?, historical acocunt or a political agenda Options

[sadolakced acid]

we all know this book. we've at least seen it in hotel rooms. this is the book with tissue-thin pages, the book that was first printed. this is a book that people rally to.

and it is a political agenda.

in the early years of christianity, there were many, many sects that called themselves chistian. one sect decided they were the real christians, and condemned the rest as false sects.

this sect evolved into the church. In order to make all other sects wrong, they edited the bible. they threw out the parts they didn't like, added parts they liked. The bible is a manual for how to live your life- so, why not add in a bit about who you should give money to?

over the years, the bible evolved as it's editors saw fit. It was changed, in the case of the king james bible, to help conquer ireland.

It was rewritten to support values the political leaders wanted supported.

want a reason to allow slavery? put in a bit about cain and able.

want to be able to get precious farmlands in the middle east? put in a bit about that being the holy land.

the bible, it seems, is nothing more than a written propoganda tool; too far edited from it's original text to be considered anything more than a pamplet that's designed, not to ensure truth of history, and that all sides are protrayed, but to get the godless heathens to convert to christianity.


now; you can either flame me and tell me how i couldn't understand, and cite bible quotes and give me something to laugh at,
or you can prove me wrong with a bit of rational debate.

i'd enjoy it emmensly more if you'd pick the first one, although the second is nice.

have a nice day!

[sammi rules you]

so...anyone who's not christian..even though there were religions existing before christianity..goes to hell? no matter what? no matter how good or moralistic they are, they go to hell?

and a sociopath who kills ten people, but is a christian..however, seems to not abide by the christian ideals..goes to heaven?

seems like the bible is advertising christianity....seems like trying to get everyone to be christian. and if christians are supposed to be accepting of others, this doesn't seem very religiously driven.

[*suddenly she*]

so...anyone who's not christian..even though there were religions existing before christianity..goes to hell? no matter what? no matter how good or moralistic they are, they go to hell?

and a sociopath who kills ten people, but is a christian..however, seems to not abide by the christian ideals..goes to heaven?

seems like the bible is advertising christianity....seems like trying to get everyone to be christian. and if christians are supposed to be accepting of others, this doesn't seem very religiously driven.

if they didn't get a chance to become christian, then i don't think they would go to hell, but instead have a chance to decide after death.

for the sociopath, that's what we call grace. it's something that nobody deserves. the bible says heaven cannot accept sin, but somehow, humans who make mistakes and do wrong on purpose can still get in.

that ties in to the whole forgiveness story.
love/accept the person, hate the sin or what the person believes.

i have trouble with that a lot.

by the way, good job don.