| That Guy said: That's the thing about the Bible. How it can maintain continuity over so many years, while written by so many men with different backgrounds. And then the fact that it is translated and still accurate today is nothing short of a miracle. That's more evidence of divine authorship. Not having an urge to familiarize yourself with the Bible? Then you can't really critique it then. Like I've said before, people have many misconceptions about the Bible, even though many beliefs are not from the Bible itself. I can pull the same argument with you: I don't have any urge to familiarize myself to evolution more thant I've already subjected myself to. Gross impossibilities like water + electricity turning into proteins and then those proteins turning into self-replicating cells. If it were such a fact, then we would have been able to reproduce the results! Wouldn't that be proper science? If you're not going to look at the evidence or backcheck your statements, then I don't want to use up any more time reasoning with you. Thanks for you time, but I consider this discussion over. |
"That's the thing about the Bible. How it can maintain continuity over so many years, while written by so many men with different backgrounds. And then the fact that it is translated and still accurate today is nothing short of a miracle. That's more evidence of divine authorship."
I was a very surprised at how different the accounts of the bible were having only been written so soon after the events took place. Not only that but many different religions that use the same judeo-christian bible, interpret it very different. So instead of solidarity in one belief, we see a constant splintering of religions into smaller sects. So by asking how it can maintain continuity, if your refering to the book, its written down, it is documented. If your refering to the idea of the book it sems like it hasn't maintained continuity.
"Not having an urge to familiarize yourself with the Bible? Then you can't really critique it then. Like I've said before, people have many misconceptions about the Bible, even though many beliefs are not from the Bible itself."
I went to a Jesuit high scool. I spend an hour a day, five days a week reading the bible. All of my current belifes are based on my experiences with my own personal experiences with the religion. Trust me society wants people to belive in God. People who belive in Hell fear going. So I have fully examined many religions before coming up with my own belifes. So don't assume that I'm as ignorant of the bible as you are of the Miller-Urey experiment. Thats the experiment that we can replicate in any lab where the early atmosphere is replicated in a glass ball, electricity added, and amino acids created.
Perhaps you are the one who should do some backchecking. Hell, I read the whole bible before I felt comfortable debating it.
