RE: There are no answers in Genesis
December 9, 2022 at 10:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2022 at 10:11 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(December 9, 2022 at 4:21 pm)Lek Wrote: Ok, so the writers of the bible were all liars - and that's that! I'll mull over that.
Writers of Genesis wrote down what some people believed at the time how the world began, and it came about from speculations. People were speculating on how the world began but we know now that they were wrong, and that the means they were using were faulty.
And it even wasn't the only story of how the world began, not even for the Jews, but someone chose the one in the Bible and proclaimed it a canon.
Now when it comes to other stories in OT, they are just legends, like stories about Robin Hood, King Arthur, Joe Magarac, Ganesha, etc. Are they just lies? Someone was obviously lying. And why should stories of Joe Magarac be less valuable than those in the OT? They are both equally "truthful".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
