the bible was written by man each religion based on this book tends to put thier own interpretation on things.parts have been added or taken away.think of the bible of a philosophy not the word of god cause im sure the dude having given you a brain and the ability to know right from wrong, expected u to use that brain to come to your own conclusions about things.
if something feels right for u do it if it causes pain or addiction dont do it simple :P

I am sorry but Bible could not have been written by MAN or WOMAN, at least not humans of the TIME that we ascribe BIBLE to be from!

Unless you ascribe to the DARK theory -- that most if not ALL of literature, religious or otherwise, that we know of, were forced to memorize in certain cases, and our next generation does not want to TOUCH let alone read (HEY MSN messenger is more funner way to acquire information!) -- was created by that strange, lanky guy working for Gutenberg in that first and original printing press, the guy who never took vacations, did not have a family and would have been in a BIG problem if he were born today and needed an apartment, bank card or bank loan (all of which NEED name and address and phone number of next kith or kin and having a friend with a stable address and a phone number really helps too!).

Believe me, these are COMPLEX times! Just mingling with Mother Nature and not having PROPER I.D. can get the holiest of us arrested and transfered to Purgatory (correctional systems!) where unless you are really naughty, you don't get solitary confinement and from what I hear, in these prisons of modern times, you WANT solitary confinement!!

Hmmm...





[quote="weeangel"]the bible was written by man each religion based on this book tends to put thier own interpretation on things.parts have been added or taken away.think of the bible of a philosophy not the word of god cause im sure the dude having given you a brain and the ability to know right from wrong, expected u to use that brain to come to your own conclusions about things.
if something feels right for u do it if it causes pain or addiction dont do it simple :P[/quote]

I have my own views on where the bible originates from, but i'd probably end up in solitary confinemant with a nice new white coat that fastens at the back and soft white walls in my room, but hey the way i'm feeling at the moment i'll be there soon anyway lol


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Taken a literal interpretation has some restrictions.  Worrying about who wrote it is redundant at best.  Look how many manuscripts lost from the original collection are surfacing?  Me, I would like to read the original manuscripts not the current interpretations.

ST,

Imagine if everyone had such high standards as you wrote about, not much will get done in each lifetime for there just isn't enough time! And since most of us come back with nearly no useful cognitive memory (reading and understanding needs that!) from earlier births, we would be spending more time each birthtime in trying to learn the language skills that will enable us to read those scriptures. It would be like having to get retooled and retrained for each job that you take. Mind you, many government jobs do work that way!

I rest my case ;-)

RR

[quote="spiritalk"]Taken a literal interpretation has some restrictions.  Worrying about who wrote it is redundant at best.  Look how many manuscripts lost from the original collection are surfacing?  Me, I would like to read the original manuscripts not the current interpretations.[/quote]