I thought I had done John?
The bible is distorted and opinionated with texts that are man created.
For example:- "Though shalt not suffer a witch to live"
Did God place that?
Or did it cause many tragedies whereby old women were murdered and classed as witches?
You simply cannot be selective and take bits that suit.
No, you didn't explicitely show how there were contradictions. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, just glorifies his Father. How is that surprising? He is God himself ONLY because God makes deeds THROUGH him, through his Son.
Maybe you didn't see your own contradiction in your first sentence. If man created a text from thin air he couldn't have distorted nor opinionated it since it would be his own creation. Why would he need to change something he controlled? It's one way or another. If he created the text, no need to distort something he created in the first place. If he distorted a previous text, you should know to what extent. This is where people shut up because they don't how far it was distorted.
It happens that I have made comparisons between all the Bible versions available on the net and saw no major contradictions on a great number of verses. Sometimes, meanings could change in few versions due to specific words used instead of others. In that case, I take into account what the majority of the versions says. It happens that the common ground is the NIV, that I always use.
So, the NIV says:
Exodus 22:18
“Do not allow a sorceress to live.
This is the book of Exodus written in the 5th century BC, after the Babylon captivity, for an event (the Exodus) taking place in the 10th or 9th century BC. So, the meaning of
'sorceress' could be very different from what the Middle-Ages believed it to mean. I suspect that
sorceress were real evil beings (fallen angels likewise) used by Satan as his servants. Remember that I said that Satan was incarnated in Cyrus' the Great body in Daniel 10.
He happened to live in the 6th century and to have set free the Jewish people from Babylon. What is not clear is why Cyrus, the KING of Persia, called
'the PRINCE of the Persian kingdom' by Christ (like Michael is one of the chief PRINCES), did it. Also remember that Christ (Daniel 10) was detained by Cyrus the Great, with Nabonidus, the king of Babylon, for he resisted him 21 days (then Michael set him free). This suggests that Christ obtained from Satan the freedom of the Hebrews.
So, to me, God didn't ask people to kill humans but evil aliens. Remember that
gods, good and bad, used to walk on earth not that long before (and during) the Exodus, EVEN IN EGYPT. But this escaped people in the Middle Ages who took one meaning for another.
The wrong meaning and messages allowed the church to torture a person for their soul as it was better to die once than to be sent to Hell for eternal damnation. Was it wrong?If these messages are correct which I doubt, it meant that as long a s a person repented then they would be saved. It was the bible that taught that, as salvation alone was not enough.
Yes, it was wrong to torture and kill, all of this due to wrong interpretations. Repentance is supposed to be true and honest, and accompanied with true faith. So, again, do not confuse Bible words with their interpretations, especially from churches that not even Christ asked them to exist!
Do you know that the Hebrews used to interpret God's words and to discuss them between them as a religious practice? This practice has even a name that ANY Jew could and do follow, EVEN TODAY! But the Christian churches, not asked by Christ to exist, totally forgot that massively important point coming from their own origin. Hence the clerical perversions...
To be continued...