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as actually not a very reliable historical text.
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This is not to say anything about your faith;
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it's not to say anything about how
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you might use this text religiously or theologically.
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In other words, it is not my intention to
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attack the reliability of the Bible for theological reading or
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for faith, or your personal beliefs about the Bible.
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What we will do is demonstrate a difference today between
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reading this text theologically as scripture,
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and reading it as historical source,
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simply as a text,
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or a series of texts, actually.