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Topic
#970

The Bible is not literally true.

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
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3
Better sources
8
2
Better legibility
4
1
Better conduct
1
4

After 4 votes and with 15 points ahead, the winner is...

Phenenas
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
30,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
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Description

The Bible is a collection of Hebrew and Greek texts which has long served as the foundation of the Christian faith, and of the Jewish faith if you exclude the New Testament. While most Christians nowadays don't take the Bible literally, there is a small percentage that still do, especially in the United States. It is an ancient text which completely contradicts what we now know about biology, physics, astronomy, geography, archaeology, and history. I will be arguing that many of the book's events and stories are in direct contradiction with established facts, and will be making use of many examples that I'd consider factually inaccurate. My opponent will have to defend that the entire Bible is literally true, in whatever way he or she chooses.

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@Phenenas

Hmmm I feel like I could maybe defend the biology, physics, and astronomy. I don't know about the geography, archaeology, and history though. Those three are definitely my weakness. I'll think about it because maybe I could learn something new and it would be an interesting challenge.

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@Skye2468

No, that's not what I meant. I'm not going to focus on anything that's clearly meant to be a parable or metaphor within the context of its book. I'm going to be focusing more on stories such as those in Genesis and Exodus, which the Bible certainly takes literally. If you're willing to defend that, feel free to accept!

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@Phenenas

I am interested in this debate, but don't know if I want to accept. When you say the Bible is not literally true do you mean every single book? The Bible consists of different books with different writing styles. For example psalms is poetry, and not everything in that book is supposed to be taken literally because of it. There are many different examples of verses you are not supposed to be taking literally.

If you are saying I have to defend the entire Bible to be literal as in every single verse is literal then I can't do it.

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@BrotherDThomas

You should take this debate

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@BrotherDThomas

This one's for you...