Hmm, I was reading some stuff the other day and it was saying that Christianity=Bible is a bit of a 19th C idea and too simplistic to see it as just the word of God. TBH I’m not quite sure what it is at all; is the main distinguishing feature just that you take Jesus as God’s son?
I don’t really see how anyone can see the Bible as anything other than a human document – it’s full of inconsistencies and very much of the time it was written. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have some useful messages but as soon as you start adhering to particular bits of it too strongly foolishness results (as it does, frankly, with any belief system). Certainly the Christian attitude to the Bible is very different from the Muslim one of the Koran (I generalise of course) in terms if how ‘true’ it seems to be held to be.
And the NT is more important than the OT – I have trouble getting a handle on the OT as that’s where you find a lot of the stuff that is, to me, a little mad. I always wondered why we always seemed to read the NT at Sunday School – then I read bits of the OT and understood. Or is that unfair? Frankly I am confused as to what is Christianity’s view of the OT. I suspect the answer it is varies – a lot.
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Date: 2009-10-07 12:57 pm (UTC)I don’t really see how anyone can see the Bible as anything other than a human document – it’s full of inconsistencies and very much of the time it was written. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have some useful messages but as soon as you start adhering to particular bits of it too strongly foolishness results (as it does, frankly, with any belief system). Certainly the Christian attitude to the Bible is very different from the Muslim one of the Koran (I generalise of course) in terms if how ‘true’ it seems to be held to be.
And the NT is more important than the OT – I have trouble getting a handle on the OT as that’s where you find a lot of the stuff that is, to me, a little mad. I always wondered why we always seemed to read the NT at Sunday School – then I read bits of the OT and understood. Or is that unfair?
Frankly I am confused as to what is Christianity’s view of the OT. I suspect the answer it is varies – a lot.