The Bible is a work of man, not God.

Yes, the Bible consists of many books compiled into one. How does this make a work of God? I don't understand this argument. People are different, but so are the parts of the Bible. In my sentence (So many people today attempt to use the Bible to justify discrimination against gays and lesbians, when they are only just small and scared people, hiding behind what they claim to be a work of God in order to justify themselves.) I said that bigots are using the Bible in attempt to justify their hatred towards gays and lesbians. I said that those who commit these acts of hatred scare (you thought I wrote "sacred") and intimidate such a small group of people (gays and lesbians). I did not say that hatred only comes from taking the passage out of context (that was worded confusingly by me, so I apologize) because the Bible is teeming with hatred already. People do not need to twist the words of the Bible to make it sound any less hateful. What I meant is that people often jump to these passages promoting bigotry when they ignore basic guidelines like "love thy neighbor as thy would thyself." The books do not fit perfectly together, as we can see this as an example in the Bible of hypocrisy. Or maybe you can tell me why we should ignore one guideline in order to smite another group of people. When people are attempting to quote someone years after they die, or to recall incidents at a crime scene several years later (for example), details, sometimes important ones, get left out or forgotten. It is not any different in the times of Christ. And, for the record, I certainly hope my newspaper does not use biblical methods for writing articles. I'll have to look into that. Maybe a few days after, but years? That argument doesn't really make sense. And I did not mean to write about Christ before he was born, but, rather, the Bible should have been started to be written much sooner than years after. And if you are going to sit here and say that science is all wrong, when thousands and thousands of years of research among millions of scientists has been documented, supported, and pretty much proven, then you do not have very much credibility on this issue. Or is it because science conflicts with religion? Excuse me for saying so, but your argument is similar to how you claim mine to be. "The Bible is right because... THE BIBLE IS RIGHT!!!" I found it to be slightly comical that you suggested that there is a conspiracy among scientists with the carbon dating system, in that scientists alter their findings in order to make the Bible look nonsensical... just on a side note. I never said that man knows more than God, which is why the Bible is essentially a slap in the face to God. Man wrote the Bible and therefore assumed on such issues as the origin of the universe. It is not I who say that humans are superior to God. Those people who say they know what God commands of us, an act partly of assumption, that makes people feel like they are at God's level, and then attempt to legislate morality in the government. I can not think of people who do more disservice to humanity and to religion than Bible-belters. You have not really proven that the Bible is a work of God. Instead, rather, you have pointed out that the Bible was written by man. Once again, I never said that humans know more than God does. The point of my argument was that if God has inspired the Bible then minor details, like the origins of man, would be a little bit more accurate, as opposed to us appearing on Earth magically. And please explain to me what you think of dinosaur fossils? A liberal conspiracy? You claim that the Bible is "infallible" because it has never been altered. This makes no sense whatsoever. Hitler claimed he was right, but did that make it so? If anything, science is more logical, due to the fact that theories are updated and altered when it is found that there are falsehoods present. Science will continue to update itself in this way, as it should. I find much more credibility in science due to the fact that individuals admit that certain aspects are wrong and then correct these aspects, as opposed to "self-righteousness" and refusal to admit when the scriptures are wrong. Once again, you state that there is not one error in the Bible. Why? You do not support this in any way, shape, or form. You want example of how the Bible is wrong? I will use something that was used in another debate you took part in: "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)" I would love to see you attempt to justify that passage. That is an example of barbarianism, not God. Unless you believe that God is a barbarian, which is, once again, probably a slap in the face to God, provided you believe in faces. What baffles me is that you believe that Bible is infallible, even though it was written by humans. Then you even go on to say: "And yet you recognize that god exist in this debate, but you don't recognize that humans could be wrong, and that god is superior to humans." It is one thing to believe in the existence of a God, and to believe that Jesus Christ is the savior of man. However, if you are going to say that science is wrong, after science has accomplished such things as to finding cures for raging diseases, put a roof over your head, and warm clothes on your body (unless you are a nudist), then we have some serious problems. I will take logic over fairy tales strewn together any day. Having faith does not mean throwing away coherent thought. God gave humans the most well-developed brain of any of his species. When will humans start to use theirs?