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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The Bible is not a moral guide. It has some moral rules in it but the vast majority of it is just stories, things like the descriptions of the temple, and hundreds of ways of saying that God is great.

The people who wrote it took the earlier parts of it to be literal truth.

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