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Imagine the Bible written by normal and intelligent people.

Just one part could have changed the world:

Life is only one. It is up to the people if they want to live in hell or paradise. When you die, you become part of the universe. But before you die, you have the power to choose between hell vs heaven by building the perfect society. What's the point of living in hell, if you can live in paradise? It is better to die hard or live free, than live like a slave of degenerates.

Imagine the Bible written by normal and intelligent people. Just one part could have changed the world: Life is only one. It is up to the people if they want to live in hell or paradise. When you die, you become part of the universe. But before you die, you have the power to choose between hell vs heaven by building the perfect society. What's the point of living in hell, if you can live in paradise? It is better to die hard or live free, than live like a slave of degenerates.

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But it was......like really, it truly was. Now I won't go in a long rant about why I studied theology and why over the years I stumbled across certain things, would make what I write too long and arduous to read.

But the bible was written by normal and intelligent people for their time. It has been "patched", and "updated" over the centuries, ever heard of the first council of Nicea? What do you think that was? Scholars,intellectuals debating about what should and should not stay in the bible. They decided what is canon in faith,yeah....no kidding on that one.

The King James version has almost nothing to do with the original bible.

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Explicit teachings on divine things are often more difficult to understand, less easy to affirm internally, and generally much more verbose. This is why Christ taught only inbparables when addressing the masses - He left us a Church to provide exegesis. What authority or competence do you have to question this approach? It doesn't seem to have prevented the faith from spreading.

Your description isn't even entirely coherent. "Part of the universe" after we die? Arent we part of it now, since the universe is multiplicity. You even affirm that all (or life, at least) is One, so how does it make sense that our ultimate destination after death would be situated in the universe of multiplicity, rather than the One?

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If it's to be interpreted by morons the end result will still be shit

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Normal, for what period? Intelligent, again that's relative to their times. Those who wrote the Bible were some of the only people in the world who knew how to read and write.

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This cannot happen, and I'll explain why. The Bible is the "word of God." How does God get his word to humanity? He uses prophets as his instruments. Moses was one such prophet. A prophet is somebody who hears voices in his head and sees visions. That is not what happens to "normal, intelligent people." Being a prophet of God is abnormal. If God speaks to you, you are going to be different -- either you are different to begin with, or the voice of God will make you different.

The prophet doesn't choose what words to write down -- God tells him what to write down. And it is written down in the holy books of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. We don't get to decide God's word -- God tells us the way it is going to be. We have free will, and we can defy God if we wish, but the consequences of doing so are not pretty, as we are finding out in our society today.