Magus55

And whose definition of wisdom do we go by? Human wisdom is foolish.

Starboy

I can see you point. If you think the bible is not foolish then everything else would have to be foolish. A Christian version of "I'm not crazy, everyone else is crazy."

Starboy

Abacus

And the Bible is obviously full of foolish human wisdom.

Tharmas

Article 1:

His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.

Biff the unclean

Tell ya what. Why don't we test them against each other? You keep shooting your trap off about how God is smart and people are stupid...so let's compare the two against reality and see. Human wisdom against God's "wisdom."

Rational BAC

I noticed that Magus scriptural passages were all from Corinthians.

Paul wrote lots of damned letters to various churches trying to impose his own view of Christianity.

But dammit they are just LETTERS. MEMOS if you want from the CEO to his underlings. And just like the CEO's of Enron and Tyco, Paul could have been quite in error. I believe he was in much of his writings.

I cannot imagine how anyone could take the egotistical ramblings of Paul all that seriously.

Paul was just a means to an end. A way to spread Christianity enormously. But that is all he was.

We are supposed to be very skeptical of what Paul wrote. And I think that was and is God's will--for us to realize that Paul was just a means to an end. Paul done good in what he done good in. But for Christ sake don't believe every damned thing he wrote.

Starboy

RBAC, your position reminds me of those that call themselves Wicca. The problem the Wicca has is that there is little to nothing left of the original religion that is known today so they pretty much make it up as they go along. Your observations about the bible basically put you in a similar situation. You want to be Christian but as far as you can tell, not much of the original religion has made it to the twenty first century. If it were me I would declare it a dead religion and move on.

Starboy

Magus55

The Bible comfirms that what Paul wrote is in accordance with God, not Himself. Now do you have any support for why we shouldn't accept what Paul wrote? Why accept what Jesus wrote since you don't even think He was perfect? What about Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter? Why accept them and not Paul? Who determines which authors are right and which aren't?

christ-on-a-stick

Magus - But isn't that a perfectly circular argument?

Magus55

No. Its not circular if a completely separate author attests to Paul's validity. The Bible is not one book.