RE: God: The Great Tempter
February 21, 2016 at 9:26 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2016 at 9:26 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 21, 2016 at 8:46 pm)Lek Wrote: I always thought it meant to lead us away from temptation. Remember we're translating Greek and they didn't always put things exactly as we do in English.
Seems "God" isn't too smart, then.
Believers claim he wants us to have a relationship with him, yet he goes pretty far out of his way to make sure his word is about as far from being reliable as possible.
He inspires his followers to wait at least 70 years, or more, to write down his word, in dead languages, sure to be susceptible to: misinterpretation, edited, have passages added, copy errors made, entire texts left out, etc.
So, not only are there thousands of Christian sects, many with major doctrinal differences (caused by these different interpretations), but the texts actually seem to look (to those of us from the outside of the belief system) very much like other ancient texts, now considered mythology.
Seems pretty short sighted of your god.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
