RE: God: The Great Tempter
February 22, 2016 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2016 at 3:22 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 21, 2016 at 9:36 pm)Lek Wrote:(February 21, 2016 at 9:26 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: 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.
Seems that way, but it's worked rather well over time.
How do you figure?
Thousands of Christian sects, many involved in wars throughout history. All over competing interpretations of texts supposedly provided by a god, that should have known of a better method to transmit his message.
The majority of humanity is not currently, and have not been Christian throughout history. Again, shouldn't this deity have been able to figure out a better method of transmitting his message? A method that would have been able to convince almost everyone on the planet?
I know I could have come up with a better method, and you could have too.
So instead, according to many Christian sects, we have a system, where the vast majority of all humanity that has ever existed, is going to be punished for eternity (or annihilated, according to others) , all because this deity had a poor method of communicating.
Is that your idea of "working out rather well"?
I guess since you have discovered the "truth", it has worked out rather well, for you. Not so much for those of us (the vast majority of humanity) that are destined for eternal punishment.
Any being that created this system, does not deserve to be worshiped, even if it does actually exist.
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.
