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pyresword posted...

Paratroopa1 posted...

But that is not at all a universal interpretation of that line. "Has spoken through the prophets" doesn't mean "literally every word of the bible is 100% true and equally important, yo"

Further clarification: I don't think I ever interpreted that passage in quite this extreme a manner. I did, however, think it necessitated treated the Bible with a greater degree of reverance than just a tool created by humans to better understand God. Maybe to attempt an analogy, I treated the Bible sort of as a human-made (and still therefore imperfect) transcript of God's word, as opposed to an author's interpretation of it, which seems to be how a lot of people in this topic view things.

Oh I agree with this for sure. It is definitely called upon to treat the bible with reverence - that in itself is why it's taken seriously despite the fact that so many things in it are obviously either mythological or long out of date and nonsensical in a modern context.