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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
The Bible is an outdated book that was written for a community that existed hundreds of years ago and has very little relevance in our lives in this day and age. It's like someone worshipping a fucking "I'm Rick James, Bitch!" t-shirt or something 500 years from now.
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Thats not true at all. The bible is a collection of communal stories, proverbs, social norms, milieu etc etc.. but it constantly evolves. The NIV translation of the bible reflects the thoughts of contemporary people, just as the translations of each era reflect the audience. If anything, the bible is one of the few religious texts that has had such an evolutionary history, and is in fact a composite of the way people have been thinking for two thousand years at least..
If it a valuable book just for its cultural and historic factors alone, let alone religious implications, and any lover of literature understands that there is no more human a book than the bible, it is a thorough review of the entire spectrum of the human experience. It is taking it as some kind of rule book that gets you twisted, in Orthodox Christianity the rule books are separate from the Bibles.