Lots of bashing for the belief of God....

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Porcupine_I said:

sapphi_snake said:

Porcupine_I said:

pizzahut451 said:

vlad321 said:

DélioPT said:

No, it`s because it contains the words from God and Jesus, along with his life. And that is defining to those who believe. That`s why we call it sacred and not just very important or very meaningful.

Ok and King Arthur contains the words of Arthur and Lancelot and Merlin, among a bunch of others. Why isn't that sacred?

Because its made up by man. And people believe New Testament are the words of son of God .A God or higher power is something people believed in ever since their brain was developed enough to think. It all comes own to fatih, after all (weather you believe God is made up by man or higher power really exists)

i was just thinking about that part the other day. that must have been the exact moment when they also realized that they would  inevitably die one day. and they would have to compensate for that knowledge with something that would come afterwards. and that is what religion is fundamentally all about. the possibility about a life after death. and you can only exclain that possibility with a higher power.

Actually first human religions dealt with the ideea of spirits living in animals. People started getting the ideea that there's life after death when they started practicing agriculture.

that is interesting. do you have any idea how this was determined? i would like to read up on this.

The cave paintings. They were not done for artistic purposes, but for religious puposes (learned this at Uni). The life after death concept came from observing how plants died and then were "reborn"(not actually what happens, but they didn't know better, as all plants look alike).