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Originally posted by football6
Everything you speak of OP, is great. These are good things you are saying. However, the fact remains that the bible is a man-made book. Every word in the bible was written by people. These are merely good lesson stories, if anything at all. You can certainly let it guide your life, but understand that if you let it be in control of your life, you are putting yourself under the control of man.
Originally posted by Starchild23
According to these lines, the Bible is full of "dark sayings" and "parables", otherwise known as riddles or secrets.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Starchild23
According to these lines, the Bible is full of "dark sayings" and "parables", otherwise known as riddles or secrets.
AND ... - the bible itself says that it doesn't contain all the teachings of Christ. That there were enough to fill all the books of the world and even more. So, whatever truth is in the bible, is only a smidgen of what is 'truth' .
edit on 4/6/2012 by FlyersFan because: fixed quote
Originally posted by DarkKnight21
Are you saying that the book is less credible simply because Jesus has more to say?
Originally posted by Demigodly
reply to post by chr0naut
The Old Testament is based on the ancient Assyrian and Sumerian texts that predate the bible. The Enuma Elish (Creation Epic) and Atra Hasis.
Originally posted by radpetey
reply to post by SimontheMagus
Like Eve back in the day, it sounds like you have been listening to the same talking serpent of her day.
Your comment is the very thing the serpent used to deceive eve that fateful day.
You should read that account in the beginning of Genesis, and look at what the devil said, and then look at your own comments in this post.
Pretty scary huh!
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
reply to post by Starchild23
• Homosexuals are unnatural
• Raped women must marry their rapist
• Disobedient children should be stoned to death
• It is permissible to keep slaves
• It is permissible to beat slaves to within an inch of their life
• The world is a flat four-sided figure with corners held by pillars
• Eating animals with hooves is unforgivable
• Wearing polyester and other blended clothing is unforgivable
• Light existed before solar bodies
• Day and night existed before the sun
• The sun and moon existed before stars
The Bible was discarded as a moral compass, and spiritual and scientific guide because it is neither moral, scientific, nor spiritually sound. People need to wake up and quit looking for God in the Bible. God's not there, never was. It was just men controlling men with a book half of them couldn't read, and the other half used as a political tool for domination.
~ Wandering Scribe