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Originally posted by Schroeder:
Whatever God is up there, I would certainly hope he has sense enough to judge a human life based on the person's character, not the religion they were born into. There are Buddhists and Hindus that live a better Christian life than some Christians and vice versa.
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There are also atheists, deists, etc. who live better lives than people who avidly believe in a God...so if they have a fantastic character but don't believe in anything they are "worse" than a person who has a fantastic character and believes in the
wrong God? You're contradicting yourself.
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Originally posted by AcTivE:
And as I pointed out--it had to be created by man. We live in an imperfect world, how could there be a perfect text straight from God?
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Maybe I misunderstood...if you'd take a concrete stance on this issue it'd make it a lot easier. I read this as you asking the hypothetical question "how could there be a perfect text straight from God", inferring that this is an impossibility, and that he would have to channel himself through man to have the book written. But other people have pointed out that even if the Bible was influenced by God, it was still written by man, which leaves it subject to errors...So in this question you gave a reason as to why people should not completely trust the Bible.
That's how I took it, anyways.