Well, it is my belief that everything regarding spirituality in the Bible needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Here is why: there are many different passages scattered throughout that completely contradict each other in both the Old and New Testaments. This means that someone within the history of the Bible must have been writing something false. In essence, the bible does indeed lie, or stretch the truth. For those conservative christians who still aren't sure, take the first four books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). All four accounts tell something different about the life of Jesus, and at times contradict each other, and are even believed to be written hundreds of years after Jesus's death. There are a lot of theories on how they came to be written, but this is irrelevant to the point I am trying to make. It is fact that there are mistakes present in the bible.

I am not trying however to say that the bible is completely false. I do believe it holds certain morals and lessons that help us in certain situations. Maybe it should be looked at more as a guideline versus the absolute truth to everything as some look at it.

Personally, on the issue of religion, I believe in a deeper understanding for humanity and our purpose, as well as death being nothing for anyone to fear regardless of religion. I believe in an all powerful, all knowing God who watches over all of us and all of his creatures. I also believe that everyone is in essence saved from eternal damnation due to this God's mercy for humans no matter how they have lived their lives. I think his love for us is much deeper than what the Christians make it out. Since no one can really know the absolute truth towards religion, I think we all eventually live in paradise upon death.

I welcome any thoughts/arguments to these ideas.
Lethal G Reviewed by Lethal G on . Could the bible be prone to mistakes? Well, it is my belief that everything regarding spirituality in the Bible needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Here is why: there are many different passages scattered throughout that completely contradict each other in both the Old and New Testaments. This means that someone within the history of the Bible must have been writing something false. In essence, the bible does indeed lie, or stretch the truth. For those conservative christians who still aren't sure, take the first four books of Rating: 5