LOL@The wanderer!!!
For a guy that puts the Bible down, it is interesting
that you have an angel as a representing icon.
You need to look a little closer.
Are you some kind of authority on the subject?
What makes you so qualified to make such statements?
Are you a Bible scholar?
Oh! Suddenly you want an appeal to authority? Where is yours? You (and the Bible) are the ones making all these fantastic claims. I suppose I read the bible just about as much as anyone raised a JW from birth. Since, I've studied (somewhat) other versions. I've read a number of the pseudepigrapha and apocrypha, etc. I am, however, only qualified to speak for myself and my opinion based upon what I've studied and experienced.
But, anyway, would being a "Bible scholar" prove that what you claim is more true? I think not.
For what it's worth, I did not put the bible down. It has it's value as a teaching tool, much as many other books do. I also think the Satanic Verses have something to say, but certainly not infallible and not "the Truth" and I disagree with much in it. I just think you ascribe a supernaturality to the bible that it does not warrant without a certain amount of blind faith.
And I think I'll stop there... ... for two reasons: I have to leave. And I'm afraid the other half of my avatar, which you failed to perceive, might show his face.
Good night all!