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In reply to the discussion: Today's Republicans do in fact have Christian values [View all]
Stardust Mirror
(685 posts)37. "The context for interpreting the Bible from a Christian perspective is the words of Christ"
apparently the context for interpreting the Bible is not what is written there, or in the history of how it came to be written there, but only can be properly understood if you put on your "Jesus is good therefore these words must be good" glasses.
How do you interpret the Old Testament without the "words of Christ" since (supposed) Jesus hadn't even been (supposedly) born yet?
How about this lees?: "The context for interpreting the Koran from a Muslim perspective is the words of Allah" Exactly the same soundness as your proposition.
How about this, less? The Bible is total made up crap. None of the values you'd like to claim for it cannot easily be found in virtually every other MAN-MADE religion.
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Not all Christian denominations take the Bible as the absolute word of God.
Elessar Zappa
Jun 2024
#2
You don't even believe in their God, nevermind just getting God wrong the same way they do.
ancianita
Jun 2024
#39
That's DemocRAT if you seek the prober hypocritical Khrishtun inflection.....
magicarpet
Jun 2024
#68
Oh no,... not at all,... nobody is trying to run off genuine Christians who.,..
magicarpet
Jun 2024
#72
Yes. They were considered an outlier sect, and that possibly John the Baptist was from them.
ancianita
Jun 2024
#33
"meek and poor of spirit who try to live by the golden rule and share a few loaves and fishes"
Stardust Mirror
Jun 2024
#35
"The context for interpreting the Bible from a Christian perspective is the words of Christ"
Stardust Mirror
Jun 2024
#37
I've read a bit about Ingersall. And that's what HE says is in the Pentateuch. It's not.
ancianita
Jun 2024
#28
It's in there. Numbers 31. Having spoken to the Lord, Moses executed the Lord's vengeance upon the Midianites.
Goodheart
Jun 2024
#43
Don't niggle. My parallel was about people being so immersed in their slavery that they feared the unknown
ancianita
Jun 2024
#74
Cool. So the book isn't about ONLY the early Dark Ages, but two hundred years before it.
ancianita
Jun 2024
#50
set me straight - show how the Bible doesn't condone slavery rape genocide
Stardust Mirror
Jun 2024
#60