There's a fail safe in the Bible that should stop people from adding things into the Bible, it worked especially well in the earlier ages when the Church was more prone to doing so...anyway, basically it says anyone who adds unto the Bible will have a punishment added and anyone who takes away from the Bible will have Paradise taken away from them.
Personally I'm not a fan of the anti-homosexual dogma that is preached by the Church, I must admit at one point I was massively homophobic but I sort of just said to myself one day, is that because of religion or because of my moral code. While I still dislike the whole shoving your cock into another guys arse (to be blunt) I haven't really got anything against the people themselves. Perhaps what was originally construed got misinterpreted when translating from Hebrew to Latin. The thing is a lot of people don't listen to everything the Bible says, rather they pick and choose and it's universal in all religions...for example, women no longer are stoned to death for losing their virginity before marriage, they no longer have to cover their heads, people work on the Sabbath and...people are gay.
I hold the New-Testament dear as truth but the Old Testament is up for debate I say as do some Biblical scholars.
And on miracles...I won't do them justice so I'll let LDG explain. [runs away scared]
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Oh yeah, fair point. Maybe he was just tortured until he lost consciousness.
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