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The 'parchments old and new' are explicitly identified as the Old and New Testaments.
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Bible
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Jiang says the Bible's literary brilliance, global inspiration, and long persistence are themselves proof that God must exist.
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Jiang explicitly rejects the reading that Dante's evidence here is merely that biblical miracles like the Red Sea literally happened.
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He characterizes the Bible as a contradictory text if read literally and says Dante's usable relation to scripture is to treat it as a portal into the mind of God.
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Jiang frames the core Protestant idea as direct connection to God through the Bible, against a Church that insists believers must come through priestly mediation.
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He uses those different divine names to argue that the Bible itself contains inconsistency rather than seamless doctrinal unity.
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Jiang treats the Bible as an accommodation to human limits rather than a pure identical presentation of the divine, and he tells the class not to believe everything in it uncritically.
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Jiang says there are many competing explanations for violent or contradictory biblical material, including the possibility that a false demiurge rather than the true God is acting.
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"Yes! You understand, the Bible. If God didn't exist, how could you have the Bible, which is this brilliant work of literature, right, who's..."
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"...and said, how do you know for a fact that the Bible is the word of God? And what Donnan says is, well, in..."
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"The Bible. But how do you know the Bible is the work of God?"
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"He's basically saying all these physical things like parting the Red Sea and stuff actually happened. No, that's not what he's saying."
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"...that's a good question, okay? So if you actually read the Bible, it's a complete mess, okay? It's written by like, I don't know,..."
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"...idea is you have a direct connection to god for the bible that's the main idea whereas how the church is like no you..."
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"...what Genesis is doing is combining four different versions of the Bible. And we know this because there are two different names for God..."
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"...this is a natural process. So don't believe everything in the Bible, because the Bible is not necessarily divine. The Bible is an expression..."
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"...we can go on for years about the contributions from the bible okay and what dante is saying is that let's just use our..."
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"...it's ptolemy who told it so right it was in the bible"
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