Re: Pascal\'s Wager...
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...orthodox Christians accept the Bible as God's word...and why it is essentially inerrant or infallible, and it's also why the primary attack on Christianity is against the Bible. Obviously, prove error in the Bible and it's reliability collapses and along with it, logically, Christianity. ...for thousands of years it has survived every attack from every side. That alone is impressive.
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The Bible, like other scriptures, is metaphorical. However, many people have been taught and/or believe that it should be interpreted literally to one degree or another. Oftentimes, this kind of misreading inhibits rather than enhances a person's ability to increase their sense of spirituality and connectedness to life and the world.
With the exponential increase in the knowledge of the natural world in the last 150 years that shows no sign of slowing down, I expect the ancient scriptures will more and more tend to be seen for what they really are, and the number of people that buy into the whacky beliefs that stem from a literal reading will steadily decrease. This trend is already strongly evident in advanced western societies, while Christianity continues to gain converts in poor, undereducated, and technologically backward third world locations.
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