Is this basically saying that we all can become equal to a God just by writing some bs or do we desperately need a divorce to do so?
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King James didn’t write the New Testament—he commissioned an English translation of both testaments from originals that had already existed for over a thousand years in Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac.
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Most Christians hold that both the Old and New Testaments were “divinely inspired” but created through human intermediaries.
I just find it weird that every one no matter where I ago preach that forgiveness new testament shit. I want a god who is pissed off from time to time and lay more Leviticus on us.
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I won’t touch on the points covered by the other replies because they’ve explained it perfectly. I think you’re confused about the divorce thing, though.
It was King Henry VIII who founded the church of England to allow him to get a divorce. But his version of the church was essentially identical to Catholicism but with the king instead of the pope.
His great great grandson, King James VI / I actually cared about religion and reforming the church. He supported the idea that everyone should be able to actually understand the scripture, instead of just the elites and clergy. That’s why he sponsored the King James Bible. He was also very anti-Catholic and, as a direct result, was targeted in the Gunpowder Plot.
You sound very confused about the origins of the Bible. The entire thing was written by humans, over the course of centuries, and eventually assembled together by a committee of humans who decided which books to include and which ones to exclude. It is all alleged to be inspired by God.
