I personally think some of the comments on this site can get pretty ridiculous at times, more importantly, they can utterly obliterate an otherwise important message. However, you know what is said about opinions and how they are like a particular body part (everybody’s got one, and they all stink). The thing I have seen that truly ruins credibility is when atheists/agnostics/whatever pontificate about the Bible, yet they don’t believe in it in the first place.
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It's not like arguing about that at all. It's like someone telling you they read an ancient account that male unicorns are white with shades of purple therefore that is the truth and you doubting the veracity of the account.
Which fits perfectly the original point. In your scenario here, the person does believe in unicorns, he/she is just skeptical about the specifics of the white and purple thing. My argument is the person who doesn’t believe in unicorns sounds silly arguing about the color of said unicorns.
How could you know if they believe in unicorns without asking? Anyway they could look at the same text and point out it doesn't say that at all. It says they are white with shades of blue. You aren't able to discuss things you don't believe?
Whenever I ask, I get no answer. You are still missing a key point to this unicorn analogy - technically, we are currently discussing unicorn colors, even though (I assume) neither of us believe in unicorns. The point though is neither of us are saying “X cannot be true, because male unicorns are Y color.“ So to complete the circle here, it makes no sense to argue about biblical translations, which ones are true and which ones are not, if you don’t believe in the first place.
Show me an an example of someone who doesn't believe in the bible arguing a particular translation is true.