Here’s what happens when you live in a fundamentalist Christian bubble: You’re utterly unable to look at your own religion with even an inkling of common sense. You defend it at all costs, ignoring legitimate criticisms, because anything less would be heresy.
And then you tweet crazy shit like this.
Just so you know:
There is not a single edit you could make to Scripture to improve it.
Anything you would do to amend so much as a biblical comma would drastically demote it.
You can’t improve the Word of God. You’d only ruin perfection.
Keep your edits on the shelf.
— Owen Strachan (@ostrachan) July 18, 2021
Just so you know:
There is not a single edit you could make to Scripture to improve it.
Anything you would do to amend so much as a biblical comma would drastically demote it.
You can’t improve the Word of God. You’d only ruin perfection.
Keep your edits on the shelf.
That’s Owen Strachan, the director of the Center for Public Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, claiming that there’s literally no way to improve upon the Bible. Even though there are multiple translations of it and even though there’s no shortage of errors in every single one of them.
Don’t worry, though! People on Twitter — including other Christians — were happy to tell Strachan about the simple changes they would make to the Bible in order to turn it into a somewhat more decent book. Or at least point out the problem with his logic.
There are no commas in Biblical Hebrew.
Commas are an amendment.
— Jeremy Price (@jeremyfprice) July 18, 2021
This is like saying you shouldn't remove emojis from the Constitution
— Werner Herzog's Fireball Whiskey (@anxious_herzog) July 18, 2021
Hear me out.. what if I selected all then pressed delete?
— P47⚜ (@Polum47) July 18, 2021
— Emerson Green (@waldenpod) July 18, 2021
Do not own other human beings as property. Do not violate bodily autonomy. There’s two right there, after thinking it through for about 10 seconds. It’s a bit concerning that these didn’t occur to you.
— Jon Hammond (@JonHammond1701) July 18, 2021
Wanna bet?�
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
— Isaiah 45:7-2I form the light, and ensure it spreads: I make peace, and crush evil: I the LORD do all these things.
–Isaiah 45:7-2, my edit.— TimTheEnchanter �️��☠️⚛️��✊� (@TimTheGodmocker) July 18, 2021
Do you think the Bible was written in English
— Robin LeBlanc, from work (@TheThirstyWench) July 18, 2021
The entire canon has been edited, redacted, put together, & changed over hundreds of years. The gross and willful ignorance of evangelical fundamentalists surrounding the evolution of the text is egregious.
— The Sophia Society (@sophia_society) July 18, 2021
This is hysterical considering it’s been edited more times over than probably any piece of literature in existence. Translations ARE edits too. And by the way, there are no commas in the original languages
— Erin Green, M.Div. (@ErinGreenbean) July 18, 2021
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— John S – He/Him �����������⚫️�� (@Pr_JT_Sipf) July 18, 2021
It has literally been edited & changed 1000s of times in the past 2000 years.
Just translating it to different languages changes the meaning & intent of most of it.
Also many of the people translating it had their own varying preconceived interpretations which they implemented.— PCR RitesGood (@pcrritesgood) July 18, 2021
Change Paul the apostle into a dog, remove all his dialogue and replace it with “bark bark bark” https://t.co/nziDDgvArm
— Erin And A Half Ryan (@morninggloria) July 19, 2021
Ah yes the word of God, famously written in the middle east a few decades after 1 AD in English, a language that wasn't spoken in any of the British Isles or Ireland at the time, let alone America. But your American English bible that went through multiple translations is perfect
— Lillian (@GLaDTheresCake) July 18, 2021
[Removes verses endorsing slavery] https://t.co/1OjqiimOyI
— Seth Andrews (@SethAndrewsTTA) July 18, 2021
Turns out the entire internet knows more about the Bible’s history than this theologian. MBTS must produce some useless graduates if Strachan is one of the men in charge of educating them.
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