The danger in literal translations of the bible is the thinking that the disciples of Christ like Peter or Paul were always talking for Christ. They were writing their message of Christ for the time frame they lived in. Remember even Peter the great disciple of Christ denied he was with Christ three times after Christ was arrested. They were human beings not God ... They have some very good messages that can and should be followed but not everything for one needs to remember they were people like you and I. That is where the conflict always comes in, maybe Thomas Jefferson had it right when he created the Jefferson bible. If Christ didn't say it , it wasn't there. Don't know
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