(January 6, 2016 at 3:28 pm)MTL Wrote:(January 5, 2016 at 5:16 pm)Old Baby Wrote: Finally, I began to reason that if God is Truth, then Truth is God. That means that there's no reason to hide from ideas that have traditionally been considered faith-breaking. Truth can only confirm God, right? Thus, I disembarked to prove my God and found the evidence took me to a different conclusion entirely...
Not that far-removed from my own experience, and my own reasoning.
Basically my 'Eureka' moment was when it occurred to me that Religion and God are not the same thing.
Religion tells you what they believe is the "Truth" about God.
That doesn't mean it REALLY IS the Truth.
And if it turns out that there really is a God,
and He really is synonymous with the Truth,
and that I failed to question the "Truth" that Religion was teaching, which was actually a pack of Lies,
then God/Truth is going to be pissed with me,
for not using the perfectly good brain that He gave me to use
to figure that shit out,
and that I chose instead to take the word of fallible human idiots.
I can relate to that, part of my realization was that the bible was written by men, and these men were absolutely more ignorant than me on certain subjects. A rudimentary education in cosmology far surpassed anything the writers of Genesis could conceive about the universe.
When you realize that, and then you start reading the bible with that in mind- then the ignorance of the biblical writers jumps out at you. It doesn't take long before you realize they were just too ignorant of the world to convey much of anything useful. Their is no reason to view the bible as anything but an ignorant book.
Using the supernatural to explain events in your life is a failure of the intellect to comprehend the world around you. -The Inquisition
