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What is the deal with things being accurate in the Bible? Do they have to be historically and perfectly accurate?
According to this story, everything does have to be accurate. This isn't right or truthful for something that is an interpretation of what one man believes. I don't believe that the crucifixion was portrayed in a wrong fashion. This could just be a way for us as sinners to see what could happen to us and how we would look. Who cares how we can be placed on the cross or in what ways the nails cut into us, just so that we know that we could be crucified. It's getting really out of control how things are being cut in fashions that bring questions to the validity of the way something was done. Makes being a book reader worthless if everything has to be cut and dry truthful rather than up to imagination. This is why I'm personally tired of conservatives trying to force their way into everything in society, book form and whatever else they try to take credit for themselves.
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A reader of the Bible cannot demand that it be historically accurate because, to put it bluntly, it's not. That's not to say its wrong--the message seems pretty solid to me, even if the authors do get the details mixed up sometimes.
Especially when talking about Jesus, one has to know that (s)he's reading an author's account of what happened. Mark, believed to be the earliest Gospel, was written somewhere around 70 CE. If Jesus died around 30 CE, then Mark wasn't even an original source--he (or she) had to reconstruct what happened based on oral tradition and earlier writings (that no longer exist).
I'm a firm believer that the Bible is meant to be interpreted and not read literally word for word. Just think about some of the things Paul wrote about...how drastically do they change when taken out of context?
Plus, part of being a believer is that whole believing thing. If you demand historical detail that is not even possible to know for cetrain, you'll drive yourself mad.
*whew* Here ends my super-long inaugural comment on Chad's blog.
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