nah we're cool. things always get heated in these kinds of debates, sometimes its you most times its me

whatever dude - the bible has been around forever, and inspite of all its purported flaws, and it will be around long after you and your prestigious scholars and universities have turned to dust. 1 book my friend, 1 resilliant little book like no other

ok, noted for next religious debate

:D thanks

@DaRev

You do know that your God is dead right? In a century, or two at the most. The last true believer will have died, and your God can join that pantheon of Mythological Gods. Who's time has come and gone. He will be as relevant then as Thor or Zeus are today. So it is actually quite ironic that you demean the Universities which will be the only places where he will actually be discussed at all. Granted it will be by Historians, Psychologists, and Anthropologists. Still you shouldn't take ill about the scholars that are going to preserve his corpse.

Anyway that is what happens with things that don't work. We throw them away in favor of things that do work. It is ironic really that you don't recognize the fact that you have already given yourself over to a new God. Every time you turn on a electronic device you are performing a sacrament, and every time you pray at the alter of modern medicine, and ask for healing you make yourself more that gods servant. The truth is you have placed almost all of your faith in the god we call Science, but this new God is a merciful God, and demands nothing of you at all. Unlike the evil God you still pretend to worship.

Can I get a Amen.

Excellent! Well said!

I believe your logical breakdown occured when you opposed God and science.

I'm not sure what stretch was required for you to do that. How exactly am I worshipping my computer by coming to vgchartz, exactly?

Proverbs 29:11 ESV

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 12:16 ESV

The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

Proverbs 14:7-9 ESV

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge. The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving. Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.

Amen.

Moderated,

-Mr Khan

Actually "The Bible" as something that has any large  impact on how  society is governed is rapidly losing its position.  As it should since almost all the major claims based upon it have been proven to be in error during the last 500 years and Gallileo demonstrated that the universe doesn't revolve around the earth.  "The Bible" stood its ground until the advent of the Scientific Revolution mainly because belief in it was enforced by the Roman Empire and disbelief was punishable by death.  However, in the last two centuries, its influence has really started to crumble.

The United States with 89% of the people considering themselves to be religious remains the only first world industriazed nation to remain anywhere near as religious as it is.

In comparison only 66% of Australians ( http://bribiebaptist.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10:australia-is-one-of-the-worlds-least-religious-countries&catid=1:latest-news ) and Canadians, 48% of Britains, 46% of the French, and only 28% of Germans and Austrians  consider themselves to be religious (  https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=how+religious+is+the+united+states+compared+to+other+countries&oq=how+religious+is+the+united+states+compared+to+other+countries&gs_l=hp.12...1408.34423.0.36026.112.68.17.19.28.3.544.10196.4j55j6j2j0j1.68.0.les%3B..6.0...1c.1.07N5etfVU_E&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.b2U&fp=f4c2134a814ceeeb&bpcl=40096503&biw=1366&bih=664 ).

In the meantime disbelief is the world's fastest growing philosophical stance (  http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/09/survey-one-in-five-americans-is-religiously-unaffiliated/ ).

The fact that Romney couldn't beat Obama with most of America's White, Evangelical vote in Romney's corner shows how dramatically "The Bible"'s influence is slipping even in America.

Two Hundred Years from now as more of the claims based on "The Bible" continue to prove to be unwarranted eg. no Apocalyptic end of the world on the way with no Jesus appearing from the clouds to throw all the people Fundamentalists hate in Hell ( Muslims, gays, women that "don't know their place"), and America's level of education rises to match that of people in the European countries, "The Bible" and most importantly  literal belief in its pages will have little impact on human societies.

So I would argue that "The Bible" isn't that resilliant at all.  It may have had a major impact on the world for ~1500 years and as long as people were murdered for not believing in it.  But, it took only 500 to 700 years of people being able to freely inquire into the subjects that "The Bible" had supposedly had all the answers to for people to demonstrate that most of "The Bible"'s major claims were wrong and for disbelief to rapidly be on the rise to the point where there is only one major first world industrialized nation where the majority of the people place any strong reliance on what it has to say. 

Also "The Bible" really hasn't demonstrated that it's that much more resillient than many of the world's ancient texts.  You can still go into any major bookstore and still buy "The Iliad", "The Odyssey", the "Bhagavad Gita", the Egyptian "Funerary Texts and Book of the Dead", "The Gnostic Gospels" ( interest in which has been dramatically on the increase over the last 50 years or so in comparison to the texts contained in the official version to the point that modern versions of "The Bible" are starting to include them in their texts), and even the Sumerian texts long after the time when Christians tried to stamp all trace of most of them out of the world, so I wouldn't even say "The Bible" is all that more resillient than many other ancient texts.