Originally posted by @josephwDoes your all-literal no-allegory perspective, make your version of the Christian god 'bigger' than divegeester's version, to your way of thinking?
Is your god too small to do that? God created the whole universe and all life on earth in six literal days. Why is that so difficult for you to believe?
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-Removed-A copyist error among the many MSS of the Bible.
There are thousands of them among the thousands of manuscripts from antiquity.
It is by these many discrepancies that scholars are helped rather than hindered to ascertain likely original versions.
To those interested in more details of the general debate about biblical textural criticism :
A Formal Debate Between NT scholar (agnostic) Dr. Bart Erhman author of popular - (Misquoting Jesus) and Dr. James White prolific Christian scholar on the reliability of the text of the New Testament.
-Removed-A copyist's mistake does not an error make. At least the translators had the integrity to not add or subtract from the manuscript.
Seriously, try and find a real error in the scriptures. Something important like in the area of doctrine. Like a major error that would cast real doubt on the veracity of the truth of God's Word.
Why do some people seem to wet themselves over such menial and trivial issues over a single word?
Go for something big like the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Find an error in the Bible that contradicts what the Bible teaches concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ for example.
Originally posted by @fmf2 Timothy 2:23
Does your all-literal no-allegory perspective, make your version of the Christian god 'bigger' than divegeester's version, to your way of thinking?
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
My God is an awesome God. He created all that exists in six literal days just as He said He did. That is the God of the Bible. For someone to say otherwise only diminishes God and exalts one's self above God. It is the root cause of man's separation from the life of God.
"Hath God said?" A foolish question.
Originally posted by @josephwHow would the six days story being allegorical "diminish" your god figure?
My God is an awesome God. He created all that exists in six literal days just as He said He did. That is the God of the Bible. For someone to say otherwise only diminishes God and exalts one's self above God. It is the root cause of man's separation from the life of God.