I don't get it\nwhere in the bible is that found?
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As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with being gay.I have a couple close friends who just happen to prefer the same gender, and I wouldn't change them for the world! I think it's a huge compliment for a woman to tell me she'd like to sleep with me,even though I'm straight.The bible says homosexuality is an abomination in the Old Testament.I'll get back to you on the specific verses.
650979
Look, I've never read the bible before.\nAll I know is it's all on how you want to interpret it.
413021
Actually, I think it would be quite difficult to "understand" the Bible as each concept that is presented is contradicted by another.  It's hard to understand a book that has no clear message.
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Not laughing here.  Even Christians don't always understand Revelations and the signs.  I think the big thing is, our human mind just can't comprehend what the Bible says on the subject.  Most don't want to believe it's happening or are too wrapped up in themselves to care.
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Interesting how so many people quote a different part of the bible without dealing with the fact that there is a clear contradictino here.\n\nTHis guy posted a verse that says basically, ask and you shall receive. Not "I'll think about it", but you shall receive.  And you all quote verses saying "not so fast".  Well, which is it? Can we move mountains with faith? Only if it's for a good cause? What?
573596
<squeeee>  Where'd you get *that bible??  I want one too!!  The bible I read didn't say cool stuff like that.  drat.  I was robbed!
631240
the bible is something like "believe but do not search". But if you read between the lines you could get a scientific answer.
565504
that might have been contradicting to the ideas of some other author.  This way you can see how the Bible is tried to be manipulated by some shrewd persons. In that case where remains the authenticity of the Bible, where any body can modify any part of the Bible?
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I never question the word of God. he said it, and i believe it. I may not understand everything in there, but that is when i pray and ask God to reveal it to me. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. Seek, and you will find it.  He has showed me many things. he can do the same for everybody.
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I am currently of "undetermined" faith, but here's the answer I think you're looking for:\n\nIt's possible that your friend believes in God, and believes that the Bible was the original word of God, but that through translation, some of the true meanings of that important history of the religion have been lost. If I ever return to Christianity, that would be my idea on the matter.\n\nHowever, there are whole religions that have either additional passages that are included in the Bible or who have selected only excerpts from the Bible (such as the Jehovah's Witnesses). Just my personal beliefs, but I tend not to trust someone else's vision of what is or isn't important from that religious work. But many people do accept this.\n\nAnd overall, the Bible is only a collection from a vast array of religious works available, that the Church set about in the early years to determine what was "important" and what was either a duplicate work, would be confusing, or just wasn't important. You can read a lot of these additional works at the Guttenburg project's Web site: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page.\n\nPerhaps your friend wouldn't be as upset about your question, and would be glad to explain her personal reasons to you.
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The bottom line of Poki's post is "because someone said so". But that isn't true. \n\nThe oldest book on earth, a copy of Isaiah found with the dead sea scrolls, is essentially identical to what we have today. Through the dead sea scrolls we have again proven that the Bible that we have is reliable and accurate and consistent in it's message. There is no scholarly authority or archaeological evidence that proves otherwise. Nada. \n\nSaying the Bible is corrupt is just the same old lie; "Yea, hath God said...?"
218532
yes. i dont see the big deal about that book...or the bible for that matter, its just words, ya know?
584378
Well Its to bad they don't understand. I don't like to see any walk in darkness. What they should understand is there has been a steady attack on the scriptures for as long as they have been around and by much better scholars than most or maybe any who have ever visited this site. Higher Criticism subjected it to all kinds of scholarly attack along with most of today's "institutions of higher learning". No book has been examined more closely than the Bible and no work could ever stand under that kind of attack. Yet the Word stands and carries on and the old saying that the shovel always verifies the Word remains true.
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Interesting theory....I'm not sure how well that's going to work for you, especially because so many people see so many things in the bible differently.  If you do find something let me know though, like I said, sounds interesting.
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check your bible for answers
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That's because parts of it seem contradictory or counter-intuitive if you take them literally, or out of historical or literal context.  After all, the Bible is a set of books written by different people in different languages thousands of years ago.  It is only reasonable that there would be something lost in the translation, especially given the ambiguity of the English language.  It may also require a great deal of research to resolve the issues you confront them with, and they satisfied themselves of what they believe and do not remember how to explain it to you.  Ignorance and laziness are also sometimes reasons, but there are some people who are able to explain those issues to you.  If you really want good answers to your questions, you should try a few apologetics websites.
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if you arent sure about somethign someone has told you then you need to check it out in an OLD bible, such as the KJV, because people change and have opinions that are their own feelings.. God doesnt change , we do and we have totally lost how things used to be and come so far from the truth... dont trust people only the bible