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Originally Posted by M3n2c3
So I guess there are people in the world practicing "Jedi" as a faith/religion these days. . . I have to wonder if, 2000 years from now, it will have its origins lost in time and garner a substantial following
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Actually, it'll be Oprahism.
But seriously, this is an important point. The legitimacy of the Bible as the literal word of god really only comes from the generations and generations of people that accept it as such. When all those books were originally written, they were not immediately recognized as the word of god. It took revisions, editing, and even committee meetings of church leaders over 100's of years before some books were canonized and others dropped. The contents of the Bible were selected by man from a wide range of sources. Since the very start, it was man's interpretation of what he though god's word was that got into the Bible, so to me it's not at all a leap to suggest that man should continue to interpret the Bible with modern eyes.
And not to single out the religious folks, but I'm curious as to why you believe the Bible is the word of god. What evidence do you have that it should be taken as god's literal word? Every answer I've ever received to that question has been a circular argument that boils down to "the Bible is the word of god because it says it is in the Bible, which is the word of god, so it has to be true". What convinces you to take the Bible literally when logically it's so much more likely that it's a man made document that attempts to explain the nature of god/morality/etc?