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You made a comment about animals suddenly being clean and about how ridiculous it is. God allowed them to eat certain animals, because people learned to cook and kill the bacteria in the animals. Now, please give me your reply to that. I want your thoughts. Think you can do it?
Ok, I've an idea here. Cite the exact verse where god allowed people to start eating certain animals. Then, find out what time period that verse was written. My guess is, it will be waaaaaaaaaaay back in history. And y'know what? Actually cooking your food to kill bacteria is a relatively
new thing. I'm pretty sure they didn't even know what bacterii were back then.
It makes more sense to say that god suddenly declared the foods 'clean' than it does to say that ancient people learned how to properly cook food to kill off bacterii and germs, to ward off disease/food poisoning.
I've got an idea too! Leave this to me and Loki. God had reasons. His existeance is not the same as yours. They could cook it, they probably just didn't know about becteria. The bible doesn't tell EVERYTHING God did. A new thing? LOL! Sure it is. I don't have a bible with me, but it was a verse saying something a long the lines of...
'You
can not eat animals with hooves.' It's in there.
....That only proves her point, you know that?
At any rate, "God" is not the one who wrote the Bible. Man is. The gospels are the only thing I take as even CLOSE to historically accurate, and even that's probably been ******** up with the telling and retelling orally of Jesus's story.
The Bible as a historical and literary piece? Sure. I can buy that.
But I'm not taking its word as God's Word.
Of course, I defected from Christianity about four-five years ago and became humanist. So I guess it's a bad thing to take the word of a heathen former Catholic who has actually had experience with this.
Amen.
No pun intended.
Lawl. None taken.
And really, take a look at it sometime. The whole thing's just one epic poem. It has invocations, epic catalogues, ect.
I took a course on British Lit and we studied epics (We read "Paradise Lost" and "The Faerie Queene) and epic traits. One thing about the Bible is that it starts "in medius res"--or "in the middle." Meaning that the war in heaven has been fought, Satan's already been banished to hell, and God's already created the world and man--that's the entire book of Genesis right there. Of course, Genesis is also really rich in epic allegory, too.
Then there is the "goal"--something that needs to be accomplished. Almost every single book of the Bible has this to some degree, whether it's to prove something, spread the word, save humanity or find some homeland.
It's been a while since I've read the Bible, but Proverbs, Psalms and the Song of Songs are all either one LOOOOONG invocation to God or there's something at the beginning calling on God to inspire them. The same can be said of Paul's letters, the Acts, and perhaps Revelation.
Now, on the subject of "epic catalogues," we have those CRAAAZY long lists of people's geneaology, journeys, ect. I'll use, for an example, the listed geneaology of Jesus in one of the books of the Bible.
An argument, which the Bible most CERTAINLY has. Jesus's defiance and debates with the Pharisees. Paul's letters arguing against the corruption of the Corinthians.
Almost all of the above are present in the OT and some to some degree can be found in the NT. So yes, I do accept the Bible as a historical and literary piece.
As the Word of God...? Nah.