Originally posted by Suzianne
It has always been my contention that God moved man to write the Bible in words and thoughts that they understood, and he knew that those same words would resonate down through the ages as man's knowledge became more refined. We have no problem understanding motivations and prophecies and the "way things were" through the lens of their understanding, but t ...[text shortened]... es had they been written for modern man. In this way, the Bible speaks to all men for all time.
That must be why there are thousands of 'Christian' denominations who disagree with
each other about just about every possible point of scripture and who have frequently
and sometimes even to this day tried to persecute and even kill each other.
Because the meaning is so clear.
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What is written in the bible is not even as moral or accurate as other contemporary writings
from other more advanced cultures.
And the idea that that was the best a god could do is laughable.
I could do better, WAY better.
I could do better simply by writing exactly the same book but altering it to take out the stuff about
how to beat your slaves and who you can and cannot own and replacing it with a single command
saying "THOU SHALT NOT OWN PEOPLE OR KEEP SLAVES EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES"
There I just wrote a better holy book than your god supposedly did.
Rinse repeat a few hundred times for all the other c**p in that book and maybe we could be getting somewhere.