Every time a Christian is about to say to us, "The bible says that..." in an attempt to demonstrate some sort of fact, imagine that you're instead going to say, "It says in Lord of the Rings that..."
Essentially, there is no difference between those two justifications. Just because millions of people have been conned into the oral myth that the bible is somehow magically true, that doesn't mean it actually is. That's the appeal to popularity fallacy, and obviously fails due to the existence of other religions.
The problem stems from the underlying assumption that bible must make sense, and must be true. The reader then bends the text, whenever it starts being wrong, in order to pretend it is right. This is entirely backwards for anyone who cares about actual truth. You should read what it actually says, and then consider if what it says makes any damn sense.
Doing the above is like me marking the maths homework of someone I assume is brilliant at maths and never gets anything wrong, and just marking it all right because they can't have meant what they wrote any time they gave a wrong answer.
Essentially, there is no difference between those two justifications. Just because millions of people have been conned into the oral myth that the bible is somehow magically true, that doesn't mean it actually is. That's the appeal to popularity fallacy, and obviously fails due to the existence of other religions.
The problem stems from the underlying assumption that bible must make sense, and must be true. The reader then bends the text, whenever it starts being wrong, in order to pretend it is right. This is entirely backwards for anyone who cares about actual truth. You should read what it actually says, and then consider if what it says makes any damn sense.
Doing the above is like me marking the maths homework of someone I assume is brilliant at maths and never gets anything wrong, and just marking it all right because they can't have meant what they wrote any time they gave a wrong answer.
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