I believe the Bible is not inspired by a higher power, but it can be interesting for historical, literary, and even spiritual reasons.
Do You "Believe" In The Bible At All?
by minimus 74 Replies latest jw friends
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Terry
I believe the Bible is not inspired by a higher power, but it can be interesting for historical, literary, and even spiritual reasons.
There are people who won't undertake any important decision or action without consulting their Horoscope while at the same time publicly admitting it is "just for fun".
I find the bible as a concept to be a Moral Evil.
It replaces confidence in man's own rational ability to neogotiate with reality.
The bible and resulting religious sensibilities is a distraction and a slow poison to objectivity.
If people would take responsibility for the way the world is instead of passively waiting on the Lord you might witness improvements of a spectacular nature.
Do you realize how many society's permit the most outrageous treatment of humanity due to belief in and reliance up Sacred Scripture (in whatever form it exists)??
Our "Bible" and other "sacred writings" are an excuse to behave badly, pass the buck, shrug collective responsibility and hide behind the banner of an absolute "truth".
The bible is interesting in the same way watching a child molester violate a child's innocence is "interesting" in my view.
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LittleToe
The bible and resulting religious sensibilities is a distraction and a slow poison to objectivity.
Then it's a wonder we survived such gradual poisoning and evolved all the way through to the 21st Century, huh?
Regardless of about 3 millenia of the bible being in existance, man has somehow survived and thrived, with various forms of religion recorded as preceding this. Maybe our attention is too drawn to the peaks of intolerance to acknowledge the fact that for most of that time rational behavior and [religion / sacred texts] have happily coexisted?
The analogy could as easily be applied to politics.
We all know that there's no perfect political system, and the current ones seem as degenerate as ever. Get the wrong man at the top, with a spin and reinterpretation of constitutions and amendment rights, and you've got a war on your hands. For all that, there have been systems of government throughout all of recorded history.
You might as easily use such volatile language to incite hatred of national elections by comparing them to molestation and rape.
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trevor
What if…………………..?
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peacefulpete
The old testament contains precise geneologies which can be used to pinpoint the years of the events it talks about.
Not really, Actually while the editors had a few contraints placed upon them by history, the overall framework was manipulated to create an artificial segmentation of history into 3 symetrical blocks of time with the completion of 4000 years at the rededication of the Temple in 164 BC. This is why the Patriarchs lived obscenely long life spans, there were less generations to fill the block of time between Adam and the Exodus.