Academia as gatekeepers

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[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They believe the Bible must be true as an absolute statement and that any conclusion that disagrees must be false so their evidence supporting their positions becomes heavily biased towards cherry picking out those arguments that appear to support them while conveniently ignoring evidence that doesn't.

I make their heads explode by showing them the Bible itself says it's full of errors and blatant human tampering (Jeremiah 7-8 especially).

[–]IX-Hispana 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm curious, can you elaborate on what the deal is with those chapters?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

God says he never commanded burnt offerings. Yet the Torah is obsessed with exactly that. He also says he never told anyone to burn people, and that he finds it detestable. The Torah commands you to do that on a few occasions. Then in Jeremiah 8:8 he says rather explicitly that scribes have tampered with the scriptures significantly.