(February 21, 2016 at 10:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(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.
Wouldn't that be more our fault than theirs?
That would make the bible a provincial document. It would look like when god confused people's language at the Tower of Babel, he would have had the foresight to reserve one universal language that his word could be translated from with some degree of accuracy.
But then, we wouldn't need faith if god did something that made sense.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
