(April 14, 2017 at 9:44 am)Little Rik Wrote:(April 14, 2017 at 9:14 am)emjay Wrote: Do you picture God as being perfectly rational then (ie non-emotional)? Or do you picture God as being like a Buddha in perpetual meditation... at total peace and free from all attachment? To be clear I was referring to the Christian religion when I said what you highlighted. You seem to defend all versions of God, regardless of religion... do you see them as one and the same? Because if you do mean something like the second, then the Christian God offers nothing towards that; just a bunch of orders but no guidance as to how to carry it out... 'love your enemy' yet throughout history they go and kill all their enemies. At least with Buddhism and suchlike there is clear and logical guidance on how to achieve the peace of non-attachment. So I can't see how you can see them as the same?
I do not follow religions.
I instead follow logic.
We do not know who wrote the Bible.
Certainly not the Christian that came much later.
I am not an expert in Bible so I can not say whether what is written in the Bible is all truth all rubbish or some is true and some is rubbish in any case I take what make sense as good and what doesn't as bad.
That sentence that say.........Man created in God's image.......make a lot of sense that is why I explained to you my point.
There are real people and real cities mentioned in the bible sure, but those mentions are there after the legends are spoken and by adding real names and places after the fact is a literary device to draw the reader in. It still does not make it true that humans have super powers or talk to the "otherworld". Plato's Apology mentions real people and real places but that does not make the Greek or Roman god's real. The original book Peter Pan mentions the city of London but that does not mean little boys can fly like that in reality.
It still remains that men DON'T magically pop out of dirt. It takes TWO sets of DNA to lead to a new pregnancy and humans do not survive the death myth as the bible would have you believe.
