Mike, this post (below) was a great post.
I agree the problem is not the Bible, but is how it's used. And ya can't get a higher authority then to use the Bible to justify what you want to do (like the formation of the Southern Baptist church, who used the Bible to justify the holding of slaves.)
And the problem we see in the middle east today ; with the Jews using the Bible to justify taking all the land they say God give to them in their Torah.
Yes the Bible has impact. WWIII might be the result of it.
Come Apocalypse come. Screw our neighbors. Let them suffer. Like when they took the Promised Land in the OT.
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Originally Posted by OBW
Harold,
Things are sketchy right now. But I have a different view of this one comment or yours:
This is something I have heard from others. But this is one of those places where "root causes" probably require a deeper look.
And I wonder if the deeper look would find that people who have done bad things with the Bible did so because they wanted to do them. But since they did not want to act contrary to the Bible, they put their own spin on things (a verse, passage, etc.) to create commands in scripture for their errors.
The KKK uses Romans 12:1-2. Anyone think that their version of "present your bodies" is what the Bible is talking about?
It is harder to see the religious errors that are not so blatant. But Lee had quite a few. Just not the same kind of egregious twist that the KKK found in Romans 12.
Don't blame the Bible for the evil that men do. The Bible has not spoken to anyone to do evil. Rather the evil have argued that the Bible has blessed their evil.
But it does not.
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