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		<title>What is the argument for accepting all of the bible when theres contradicting stories?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb & Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weird question, I know. Before I offend people, I mean that question in the nicest way. I believe that people should choose to believe whatever they want to. I don&#8217;t care if your religious or an atheist. As long as you have reason behind your opinion. But this has been bothering me. Theres things in<a href="http://kidsonlinestories.org/what-is-the-argument-for-accepting-all-of-the-bible-when-theres-contradicting-stories/"><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; display: inline;">Read more &#8594;</div></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Weird question, I know. Before I offend people, I mean that question in the nicest way. I believe that people should choose to believe whatever they want to. I don&#8217;t care if your religious or an atheist. As long as you have reason behind your opinion.</p>
<p>But this has been bothering me. Theres things in the bible that obviously contradict. I&#8217;ll go with the first contradiction as an example, the fact that theres two creation stories, written by two of the four original groups of authors, and the two stories are obviously different, since in one god is more close to the humans and more loving and caring, whilst the other god is far away and powerful.</p>
<p>So how can someone say that EVERYTHING in the bible is 100 percent true when theres two stories that clearly contradict each other? Like, as my original question states, whats the argument that proves that right?<br />
NOTE: I am not asking IF I should believe it, I&#8217;m asking WHY I should believe it. I dunno, its hard to phrase. Basically, I have my opinion on the matter already, but I&#8217;m curious what the argument is agaisnt me, since I could never think one up. I am aware that it all comes down to faith, but if you have faith, how do you say that the bible is 100 percent true when you know that the two stories can&#8217;t be both 100 percent true? I&#8217;ve seen plenty of people in my life who accept everything in the bible as true, I&#8217;m asking this mainly to them. And I want a more complex answer then &quot;faith tells me so&quot;</p>
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		<title>Should we read the bible as figurative stories only?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 06:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb & Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstract concepts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an English minor and one of the classes we had to take is a course on studying the bible in it&#8217;s literary context only. The teacher explained that we should take away all of our religious biases and throw them out the window. We were only to look at the stories as embellished,<a href="http://kidsonlinestories.org/should-we-read-the-bible-as-figurative-stories-only/"><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; display: inline;">Read more &#8594;</div></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am an English minor and one of the classes we had to take is a course on studying the bible in it&#8217;s literary context only. The teacher explained that we should take away all of our religious biases and throw them out the window. We were only to look at the stories as embellished, figurative stories to make a point about god and faith. Basically the figurative language is used to speak about abstract concepts in terms of concrete things.Should that be the way we should take these stories or should we take them more literally? Do you think these things really happened or is it just creative storytelling to describe concrete principles?</p>
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		<title>How Are bible stories different from Greek Mythology?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb & Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both depict stories that stretch the imagination and take &#8216;faith&#8217; to believe]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both  depict stories that stretch the imagination and take &#8216;faith&#8217; to believe</p>
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		<title>What are some bible stories with Faith?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb & Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have this school project to find a bibical name and you have to find that in the bible. Is there a story where one characters name is Faith?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have this school project to find a bibical name and you have to find that in the bible. Is there a story where one characters name is Faith?</p>
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