How does the Christian confront proof that the Bible is not the word of God but the word of man? [Spirituality & Religion]
How would it affect your view of the Bible as the inerrant word of god to know that one of its most beloved passages was added in later for effect?
The Pericope Adulterae. You've all heard of it even if you don't know it by that name: John 7:53—8:11, the story of the adulteress where Jesus outwits the Pharisees and challenges the man without sin to throw the first stone.
Well it's not actually part of the bible. It's a later addition and most of the early manuscripts don't have it. And this isn't even a point of significant dispute but is agreed upon by most biblical scholars.
Is it difficult to believe that the Bible is god's word when men can change it like this?
@FlowersNButterflies could be. I was an atheist for well over 30 years of my life. I still don't have all the answers, and i don't exactly follow scripture. I tend to view it as more of an individual, personal relationship thing.
No one could write a book on how you personally could get along with your spouse or parents. Every relationship is different, including that with Christ.
Especially when many don't believe that a god exists, that a god impregnated a virgin (when he was said to have made Adam from dust and Eve from Adam's rib, so that Mary would give birth to himself as his son in order to die for our sins yet send "sinners" to eternal damnation for those sins he died for. Insane. Not at all believable. @PrivateHell @PrivateHell
@FlowersNButterflies How so? In order to be "ineffective" one has to be seeking an effect in the first place. You came to me, i didn't seek you out, and i honestly don't give a damn what you believe or don't. But, apparently, my beliefs bother you somehow. And since you aren't even close to changing them, who is really being ineffective here?
