God Did Not Write the Bible

Devils' Advocate said:
Well one thing hell is not. It isn't a place beneath our feet with roaring fires and molten rock with billions screaming in eternal agony. That's a complete, and manmade fabrication.
Click to expand...
Yeah I agree with you. Those images are, I believe, created in medieval period ... to scare the crap out of people into joining the church, perhaps?
 
Lux said:
Oh sorry ... I somehow thought you were being sarcastic ... My bad. :confused:
Click to expand...
No worries... It is the guideline that caused me to drive a thousand miles to standing rock, makes me keep cliff bars for folks at stoplights, requires me to never pass up a hitch hiker, leads me to march with women in DC ....

It is the verse that humbles...
 
wil said:
I'd say most religious books... Have some sort of how we got here creation story, thousands of years old attempts at understanding the physical world using thousands of years old understandings...this why they don't stand the light if today.

Then there is the govt concept...some rules of living...some.way to refer to for who is right and who is wrong during a disagreement, a way to keep order and folks on the straight and narrow.

And yes, readings to help one connect with all that is holy.

The uniqueness of the Bible is that it is composed of 66 books, 2/3 of them Jewish, the other third mostly written by Jews that believed in this new messiah.. This last third was composed of books that were selected out of the hundreds that were being circulated at the time (the Jewish canon having already been established)

So they selected a few hundred years after Jesus...selections of writings spanning a thousand years...which they deemed inspired (not written) by G!d....and bound them together..
Click to expand...

The point is rather what else can be done in your opinion. Do you happen to know how humans keep records of our own history?

This is basically the best humans can do, that is, without applying a double standard. No human books can be written in a better way, in terms of human witnessing/testimonies.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top