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In response to all those "contradictions" that rottie posted, there are two things that I, as a practicing Christian, feel the need to point out.
1) Context. If you take verses from the Bible out of context you can make it say anything you want. But that's not how it's intended to be read.
2) English is *not* the original language of the Bible. It was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, & Greek. *All* other translations have errors and inaccuracies, sometimes cause by simple poor translation, sometimes by the limitations of the language it was being translated into (especially English), and sometimes an *unwillingness* on the part of the translators to accurately translate something that they didn't like. For example, the "Thou shalt not kill" thing...in the original language, what it actually says is closer to "Thou shalt not *murder*"...however killing in war, for example. or in self defense, is never forbidden in the Bible.
But the context issue is the most important thing...believe me, though I don't have time to go through each of those contradictions point by point, I've looked at enough of them before to know that there are *no* true contradictions in the Bible...it only appears that way until you actually get the full picture of what's being said in any given passage. Just wanted to throw my $0.02 in, that is all [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] .
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