rainbowlady1
Well, how about the history on HOW the bible was put together? Somebody who only chose the books/writings he wanted that were in line with what HE believed? Threw out the rest? How fair is that? That isn't the best representation of the whole truth or the most accurate one either.
...The bible was at the mercy of the whims of those who wrote verses, stories, analogies, put things together, translations, etc.
Thank you for supporting my point: How can anybody take
any of it seriously, bearing those things in mind? Furthermore, how can anybody determinately pick and choose which verses
are God-inspired and which ones
aren't, since the very process you described renders
every verse suspect to alteration, exaggeration, and/or fabrication?
rainbowlady1
Arcoon Effox
...It's either is the Word of God or it isn't - you can't have it both ways.
It isn't all or nothing.
When it comes to this it is, because of its nature of the claim associated with it. Either the Bible
is the Word of God, or it's a book of moralistically-oriented mythology from a Bronze-Age culture.
I'm leaning more toward the latter, as large chunks of of the earlier section of said mythology were
stolen 'borrowed' from older cultures, and others have been archaeologically disproved - and since the OT is the foundation for the NT...
rainbowlady1
If you take it all literally, you miss the point.
Is there a guide someplace as to which parts are metaphorical and which aren't? You'd think that they'd make some sort of annotation about such things in the margins, because taking certain things as one when they are actually the other could, by the Bible's own prescription, have some serious consequences.
rainbowlady1
Personally, I can't see where the message of Jesus to love God and love one another can ever be taken as to mean hate or kill or be disrespectful, etc.
I'm not taking Jesus' (alleged) message to mean anything of the sort; what I'm saying is that God is absolutely not "love", and that the Bible has a plethora of evidence that shows such.
You want another example? How about the story of Job, in which God gives Satan permission to kill Job's family, destroy his home, and take away pretty much everything he has. And why did God do this to a man who was "
perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil"? Why, it was so he could win
an effing bet with the Devil, of course!
"
God is love", my a**...
Common sense and religion cannot live under the same roof, because religion defies common sense. Religion is about believing in impossible things which can't be proven, which isn't sensible.
rainbowlady1
I cannot see how the great creator of the UNIVERSE is going to stoop down to the level of human ego.
...
what?
God's first
two commandments are to worship only him
because he's "a jealous God". If that's not a good enough example, how about the whole "
if you don't worship me and do what I say, I'll see to it that you spend all eternity in agony" thing...? We're talking about a guy who created Seraphim for the sole purpose sitting around his throne and singing about how cool he is, "day and night with out ceasing", for all eternity.
Where do you think the expression "
God complex" comes from?
rainbowlady1
Anybody could have written those verses and called it "God's word". If I can believe anything from the bible, I look to Jesus and what he stood for.
Since "anybody could have written those verses", and considering what you said about the whims of editors,
how can you know that Jesus' message isn't a construct as well? Think about it: If
those verses could be 'affected by man' or whatever, then by the same token
any of them can.
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