No it isn’t, or else this conversation wouldn’t be happening.
The Bible is a thousands-year-old compilation of local folk tales and the musings of illiterate sheepherders, munged together by rich elites who saw its usefulness in controlling the masses, and has been translated. modified, and reinterpreted dozens of times to keep it effective at controlling the masses. It’s fraught with inconsistencies, and calling anything in it “quite clear” is honestly just laughable.
The parts aren’t, the whole is, and I showed why. You have the right to disagree of course; but then it’s not a bad thing to answer to arguments by arguments.
You didn’t show anything, you shared your interpretation and claimed that it’s the one “most” Christians believe without any evidence.
More to the point though, your interpretation isn’t even clear - you yourself admitted that the Bible uses difficult prose, suffers from translation issues, and needs to be viewed through a cultural lense calibrated to the times it was written. How is that “clear” at all?
And I did give you an argument. I directly countered your claim that “the Bible is quite clear” by saying nothing in the Bible is clear and giving examples and reasoning for why I believe it isn’t clear. I thought that was quite clear.
No it isn’t, or else this conversation wouldn’t be happening.
The Bible is a thousands-year-old compilation of local folk tales and the musings of illiterate sheepherders, munged together by rich elites who saw its usefulness in controlling the masses, and has been translated. modified, and reinterpreted dozens of times to keep it effective at controlling the masses. It’s fraught with inconsistencies, and calling anything in it “quite clear” is honestly just laughable.
The parts aren’t, the whole is, and I showed why. You have the right to disagree of course; but then it’s not a bad thing to answer to arguments by arguments.
You didn’t show anything, you shared your interpretation and claimed that it’s the one “most” Christians believe without any evidence.
More to the point though, your interpretation isn’t even clear - you yourself admitted that the Bible uses difficult prose, suffers from translation issues, and needs to be viewed through a cultural lense calibrated to the times it was written. How is that “clear” at all?
And I did give you an argument. I directly countered your claim that “the Bible is quite clear” by saying nothing in the Bible is clear and giving examples and reasoning for why I believe it isn’t clear. I thought that was quite clear.