RE: If you believe in the God of the Bible, why try to prove it logically?
June 19, 2013 at 1:53 am
(June 19, 2013 at 1:42 am)Godschild Wrote:(June 18, 2013 at 11:23 pm)cato123 Wrote: Apparently I'm not 'still' on ignore. A little dig, but seriously....
Do you understand my joke? You claim that I can only understand what Biblical verses mean through 'judgement'. What does this mean? At face value, you are telling the rest of the world that the written words inspired by God don't mean what they say. One can only understand if they interpret the words with 'judgement'. What does this mean?
Simple, God pronounced His judgement on those people and then decided there punishment. He had Israel to carry out the punishment, this showed the others in the region God was with Israel and that His judgement would be carried out against them. As I said earlier in this post, God was ridding the land of the sinful people that would lead His people astray, He wanted Israel to scourge the land so they could have a fresh start with no outside influence. They did not obey Him and that's why archaeologist find Ashtaroth and Baal idols in their digs of Israels cities. This is why they misinterpret that God had a wife, Israel just kept messing things up from the time they left Egypt till the time they were exiled into Assyria and Babylon. God's judgement against His people, God judges all eventually.
If your god passes 'judgment' on people in this heinous fashion, then he's a monster, not to be worshipped, but to be opposed. On the other hand, anyone with a brain understands that the Israelis used their own peoples' beliefs to achieve mass murder and rape on a people they openly despised. And it wasn't the first or last time they did this sort of thing, nor were they the only ones in the near east doing it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
