(August 7, 2016 at 3:53 am)KJV-reader Wrote:(August 7, 2016 at 3:28 am)Nihilist Virus Wrote: YeahI've noticed there's a lot of this from one Bible to another. I only really concentrated (or was told was all I needed to read) but last 2 years I have read other Bibles.
It's made me conflicted.
Here's what should really make you 'conflicted'.
The Christian claim is that the god, with all the immense powers that Christians attribute to him, has this 'message'. The most important message possible, and that all humanity must understand and apply this message as accurately as possible in order to avoid eternal torment.
And the best this god could do is to inspire his flawed creation to record it, decades or more after the alleged events occurred, by unknown writers that were not eyewitnesses, in languages he would know would die out, that could be edited, contain copy mistakes, contain historical inaccuracies, contradictions, etc.
And then to make matters worse, he would leave it up to the same flawed humans to decide which texts would become part of the canon 325 years after the alleged events at the Council of Nicea.
Is this seriously the best method of communication your god could think of?
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.