Preface not included

I was thinking today that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the bible as a whole by the Christian population as a whole. Well nearly anyway, it’s always bad to speak in such absolutes. The bible is a collection of stories that some if not most will take as actual historical accounts of real life events. I guess it’s all due to the absence of context in the non-existent preface. I am always taken aback with someone if the subject of Noah or the garden of eden come up. It’s painfully obvious to me that these stories are meant to be nothing more than stories with a message. Very few people actually know about Adam’s first wife Lilith.

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Lilith/alphabet.html

The church phased out these passages as it was deemed to convey that god was not infallible and they didn’t want to do that. “They” are the group of people who decided which stories and which parts of stories that were going to be included in the final draft of the modern day holy bible. With missing pieces of the puzzle people are led to believe in something quite false. To me, the missing passages of the bible are key in determining the validity and context of the original texts used to compose the bible. So basically, a group of people gathered these texts from various parts of the middle east, decided which ones gave validity and foundation for a religion, and decided how Christians and Jews alike would follow their deity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_from_the_Bible

You also need to understand something. Christians are very particular when it comes to whose message they hear. Hence the reason for the various denominations both Catholic and Protestant alike. One of the reasons I have always been against a theocratic type government is because that would mean that someone other than myself would be determining my line of thinking and interpretations of faith and the bible as a whole. I think what has slipped by most people is that the bible itself is a testament to what I have just said. If in fact god did speak to the authors of the bible you can assume that human nature led these authors to interpret the message as their own perceptions allowed.

“The message received is not always the same as the message delivered”

In conclusion, man has given the path to Christianity, not god. All texts in the bible were written by people with limited understanding of the world and were subject to individual interpretations. You also have to take into account the severely botched translations of the King James version due to the fact that the languages were dead, even in 1611 when it was first published by the church of England. This means that the translations are subject to the same type of error that modern day archaeologists are prone to make when attempting to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Not to mention the fact that in modern days, people who claim god told them to do something are often locked up.

Just a thought..