BetterBible – The Bible has some issues. Let's make it better.
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-11. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here [am] I.
-12. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me.
+11. And the angel of the LORD whose name was Ashton Kutcher called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here [am] I.
+12. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for I was pulling thine leg. Thou art Punk'd.
"Mommy, did Jesus really say that lisp isn't a programming language, but a construction material?"
If you don't like it the way it is, just don't apply what's in it. Why the need to alter it.
That's like altering Shakespeare's work to modernize it, using "new" English. It became what it is today the way it was written, why change it. Just weird.
PS: I'm not Christian. Maybe that's why I'm baffled.
If I don't agree with it, I'll just do my thing but I mean, why would I change it for others too. We'd have as many religious books as there are people that way.
But then again, maybe God opensourced his word saying "Thou shalt fork me on GitHub".
You are not a Christian but you think that book is holy.
Explain yourself.
I know. I just find it odd that a Bible is more likely to get changed than a rap song.. I don't imagine someone would edit Tupac pieces to make them more fit to "our times".
>You are not a Christian but you think that book is holy. >Explain yourself.
Well, I may not be Christian, but it's the book of Christians, so it is Holy. I think that way about the Torah and Quran.
> I just find it odd that a Bible is more likely to get changed than a rap song.
I think your issue is about who can change it.
Back in the middle ages there were wars and conflict because of who could read it. Catholics said that only Holy people could read it, protestants said that everyone could.
Shortly ago, the Pope asked for 'Prophets' to appear, to make the Catholic church less 'catechismic' and make it adapt to the times. If that happens, the Bible will be edited, possibly but not limited to adding books.
So I think you probably disagree with common people editing and adding stuff to the Bible, but have no issues with Catholic sanctioned 'Prophets' writing new Bible stuff.
I think that this public editing is great and fantastic. This is because the Bible, Holy or sacred or whatever, is just a book like any other. It should not be held above any person, and people should be free of any oppression related to it.
However, I think this effort will fail. Because people can 'respect' and 'fear' things they don't fully accept, and this particular book is basically the most resilient one of these things.