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<p>[QUOTE="Xprimentyl, post: 4200, member: 20"]</p><p>I believe that qualifies as Agnostic which is also how I qualify my beliefs.</p><p></p><p>And that's not really a fair question; you're prescribing objective truth to your faith's text which doesn't really leave room for an answer you'd ever find remotely reasonable.</p><p></p><p>The text exist; this is true, but by the allowance of God (let alone directly by His hand) is a matter of belief, not fact. Not to take anything away from your beliefs, but as a good Agnostic, I can only say I don't know why the scriptures exists. They could easily have been written by man completely removed from divine influence at all. There's a version of the Bibles called the "King James Version;" that alone tells me that man had a significant hand in its creation, and man is fallible. Hell, the Bible has been translated into dozens of languages; which is the <em>actual</em> Word of God? Modern English? Greek? French?</p><p></p><p>At over 2,000 years old, the Bible certainly has stood the test of time, but seeing as one need only go back half the time to the language of the Anglo-Saxons to find "English" unrecognizable, you have to wonder if some things may have been lost (or added/intentionally omitted) in the Bible's iterative translations which is why I personally find it difficult to understand faiths that put 100% stock that "the Word" exactly as it is written in their text of choice is THE truth and their learnings become somehow what they "know" and no longer what they "believe."</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong, the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, etc. all have excellent lessons to teach for those seeking spiritual guidance, but I feel those lessons are deeper than the ink on the page on which they're printed and requires more of someone than simply believing what a books says and doing what other members of [insert religious group here] say.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Xprimentyl, post: 4200, member: 20"] I believe that qualifies as Agnostic which is also how I qualify my beliefs. And that's not really a fair question; you're prescribing objective truth to your faith's text which doesn't really leave room for an answer you'd ever find remotely reasonable. The text exist; this is true, but by the allowance of God (let alone directly by His hand) is a matter of belief, not fact. Not to take anything away from your beliefs, but as a good Agnostic, I can only say I don't know why the scriptures exists. They could easily have been written by man completely removed from divine influence at all. There's a version of the Bibles called the "King James Version;" that alone tells me that man had a significant hand in its creation, and man is fallible. Hell, the Bible has been translated into dozens of languages; which is the [I]actual[/I] Word of God? Modern English? Greek? French? At over 2,000 years old, the Bible certainly has stood the test of time, but seeing as one need only go back half the time to the language of the Anglo-Saxons to find "English" unrecognizable, you have to wonder if some things may have been lost (or added/intentionally omitted) in the Bible's iterative translations which is why I personally find it difficult to understand faiths that put 100% stock that "the Word" exactly as it is written in their text of choice is THE truth and their learnings become somehow what they "know" and no longer what they "believe." Don't get me wrong, the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, etc. all have excellent lessons to teach for those seeking spiritual guidance, but I feel those lessons are deeper than the ink on the page on which they're printed and requires more of someone than simply believing what a books says and doing what other members of [insert religious group here] say. [/QUOTE]
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