Why does the Bible get misinterpreted so often????

spendi, Yes, the catholic divorce rate is 21 percent. Here's a chart by different christian groups:

Denomination (in order of decreasing divorce rate) % who have been divorced
Non-denominational (small conservative groups; independents) 34%
Baptists 29%
Mainline Protestants 25%
Mormons 24%
Catholics 21%
Lutherans 21%

Only a comparison by a christian would come to that conclusion. Atheists/agnostics don't give a shet about similar or unsimilar statistics on divorce.

Only a comparison by a christian would come to that conclusion. Atheists/agnostics don't give a shet about similar or unsimilar statistics on divorce.

Wunner if this means I oughtta immediately divorce 21% of my wives.

Never said you needed my permission for anything on a2k. Have you learned reading comprehension yet? Show me where I said you needed my permission for anything.

Do it work on do-goodness and holier than thou?

Do it work on do-goodness and holier than thou?

Magginkat wrote:

Do it work on do-goodness and holier than thou?

'Fraid not - thats usually untreatable; mostly they die with it.

Magginkat wrote:

Do it work on do-goodness and holier than thou?

Magginkat,

Sweetie, I'd be more than happy to send you the recipe! :wink:

Momma Angel wrote:

Magginkat wrote:

Do it work on do-goodness and holier than thou?

Magginkat,

Sweetie, I'd be more than happy to send you the recipe! :wink:

Ms. Angel... The last time I heard someone talking about their 'recipe', it was for moonshine and it sure didn't have any prune juice in it. That might explain why you are always so giggly and zapping those smilie faces & wink , winks all through your posts.

timberlandko wrote:

I accept you will not - actually, given the proposition you champion cannot - agree, Implicator, but I submit your latest replies amount to sophistry, confirming by example the very point I am making.

The notion that a perfect deity would provide the perfect word, "The Revealed, Immutable Truth", in a manner such that it would require interpretation and interpolation to be understood is self-cancelling - an absurdity. Such a notion is neither more nor less than a job guarantee for the priesthood.

I agree with you Timber. It is impossible for me to (logically) agree with you, because I don't find your position tenable. My latest replies have provided a refutation of your position, one which includes and applies the very definition of the words in question ("interpret"). To simply claim that I am unable to agree with you (which implies you are correct and I am not), is insufficient. If my comments amount to sophistry, then please proceed to show what it is that distinguishes what you would agree is a plausible argument from an argument that is truly sound.

If God did not reveal what he meant with perfection, then man would have no hope of understanding the concepts he was expressing to us via his revelation. That man is able to incorrectly interpret what God has said does not minimize the usefulness of the original words which were delivered - such a conclusion relies upon the assumption that God wants every person to understand exactly what he says the first time out without any reliance upon God.

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