try again fren. The Bible has tons of great and exciting stories, like when David hid in a Philistine city by pretending he was insane. they're not flashy and childish like pagan shit because they're real historical accounts. just watch Marvel movies if you want to enjoy fiction
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Lol no.. just no. To each their own but if I seriously doubt you put levitical law & most psalms on part with the gospels (gnostic & canonical) and Paul's writings.
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You can't seperate one part from Scripture from another, and say that one is inspired and another is not, and thus that one is "better" than the other
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Of course you can, Christianity has never had a consensus on the canon ever in its existence. Neither did Judaism. If we had to accept every book that any Christian tradition called expired it'd be a Bible over 100 books big at this point.
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Marcion's canon + John, Thomas, Judas would do it for me. Revelation, Luke-Acts, & the other stuff could go.
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Hard disagree, we can't pick what we like and discard what we dislike, this will only amount to a kind of consumerist and syncretist mentality of creating a uniform 'canon' without understanding the underlying unity of Scripture
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You're presupposing a univocal series of scripture which isn't what we find when we read the Bible. Sometimes singular books don't agree with themselves, never mind the entire artificial corpus. I can't reconcile the Pastorals & Acts with Paul. I'd argue it's impossible.
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Must remember that every book can be read on 4 levels, and that what seems contradictory on a lower level is resolved on a higher level, this is especially relevant for 'inspired' works (but is also relevant for something like the Divine Comedy)
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In some cases but the pastorals were deliberately (in my view) written to be polemical works against the original gnostic Paul. Co-opting his movement. Acts is an unreliable historical narrative that fucks with Paul's message and introduces ahistorical junk w/ Peter/Paul
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