Don't know and don't care what fundamentalists are.

I am dumbfounded by the demanding question, "Do you believe in the Bible?"

For one thing, there are more documents that are the Bible for other religions besides the Bible of Christianity and Judaism that I know. There is certainly more understandings of that Bible I'm familiarized with besides just that understanding of the person demanding an answer. There is also the Muslim understanding of the Bible as demonstrated in Muhammad's Koran that is not the same.


But what really confuses me is the mystical entity that the person demanding if I believe in the Bible is really asking about.

The word "bible" means "library." The New Testament is really the books that Christians wrote in Greek. The "Old" Testament is really the books that the Jews or Israelis wrote in Hebrew or Aramaic. The Jewish Bible were documents what the Jews decided to declare special, and the Greek Bible were documents that the Christians decided to declare special.

These books do not agree with each other, but people who are concerned with fundamentals have as one of their fundamentals that their Bible is perfect. There are good things to be said about the Bible, but perfection is not one of them. What these people want with their fundamental that the Bible is perfect is that what they believe is validated in some sort of mystical way that makes it impossible to dispute what they believe.

It is indeed impossible to get them to make sense about this. However meaningful their study of their Bible is, it doesn't make their beliefs undeniable to other people. At the very least, the Bible has its flaws that make it human. I'm satisfied with that since I'm human. I don't know, and I care what these fundamentalists are.

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