BrazosDog02 said:
BigRobSA said:
BrazosDog02 said:
Ugh...God is genderless. I thought that was pretty well understood. He is not a he, not a trans, not LGBTQ...if anything, it's an it. Jesus was a dude, but his daddy ain't.
John 4:24 something something spirit and whatever pesky Bible stuff it says.
Even Jesus, the guy who knew HIM best, called him "Father".
The Church also hangs up a white, blue eyed, blonde haired dude in the front wall as a representation of a middle eastern carpenter.
Literary and artistic liberties have been taken after 465,000 translations of a text by imperfect scribes to get us where we are today.
I guess there are words to describe modern religion and the bible but 'consistent' is definitely not one of them.
The old testament matches the Dead Sea Scrolls, they where unearthed in 1946.....and it matched the books we had. The accuracy was amazing, over a thousand years!
Your comment about translations is faulty when it comes to the Torah and other books in the OT. Also the NT books are generally traced back to only two versions, Alexandrian and Byzantine.
instead of trying to make a faulty point about mistranslations you are welcome to peruse the oldest works and translations. We also have well documented vocabularies for Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, and Aramaic.
In other words, many of the books we have in the OT especially are EXACT MATCHES to books unearthed and dated to be even as early as 200-400 BC. Yes many woke loonies like the person in the OP distort the words, but you can read the actual oldest translations yourself.