• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I ain’t a Christian! But the Bible is a collection of books and correspondence, with many many authors (usually they say who they are in the first few lines of the book/letter), not just one book. And of course everything past the Old Testament can be more than iffy because Christianity/Catholicism was a tool for social control put together by the imperial power of the time to ride the wave and not get overwhelmed by it. Anything Paul says sounds like a fed cosplaying a believer, lol, and besides the additions, who knows what exactly had been modified? It must be read with discernment, basically.

    Ecclesiastes is one book, for instance, upon which one could rely entirely to believe in God and do good deeds… but the Qur’an is also one book, more comprehensive and, at least for many of us, the word of God itself!