Re: Moderate Muslims and Catholics-Nice But Dumb?
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That doesn't preclude that there's divine truth in those writings, but that truth isn't there with no single missing dot to the "i". The bible is normative, for sure, but not in every single of its 613 comandments as they are written there, as those were written in a certain sociological-historical environment and relate to that environment. That doesn't make the bible arbitrary, but definitely open to debate.
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Sounds arbitrary. If there some definitive meaning surely the 500 -1800 years of debate would have found it. They solved Fermat.
If the debate is not resolvable ( which seems obvious), then any conclusions one comes to are arbitrary. You produce the salve that soothes your wounds.
luckyme
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