Capital Punishment

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

I got the impression that you interpreted more from my question than was intended. I wasn't expecting you to come down easily on Christianity. I was curious to see which specific parts you and others thought were vile; I guess you thought I couldn't believe someone could think of the Bible as vile.

I disagree with your second paragraph, though. Over time, things change. Girls getting married when they were children and slavery are two things found in the Bible that are no longer acceptable and are wrong. I do not believe that God still wants us to practice those things just because it's in the Bible. I think many people realize now that homosexuality, as discussed in the Bible, simply is not how we understand it in modern terms. In fact, many Biblical scholars believe the passages discussing homosexuality refer to the condemning of pedophilia and/or orgies. I have investigated myself and agree. There is also strong evidence of homosexual couples in the Bible who were favored by God.:

so you do believe in the bible, but you don't?

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Anyway, the Bible was written by man and is read by man, and is therefore subject to interpretation. You and I could read the same poem and arrive at different conclusions....but no one really knows how the author intended his/her work to be interpreted.
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right, so why take the bible as the word of god? And if you believe some parts are the word of god, but other parts are inconvenient and outdated, and that god wouldn't want us to do that, then how can you believe any of it is the word of god? does that mean you actually just pick and choose which parts are the word of god?