(May 12, 2017 at 12:54 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(May 12, 2017 at 12:30 pm)Grandizer Wrote: The exchanges happening here between the Christian members. My god, isn't it more parsimonious to actually view Christian theism as entirely man-made, instead of trying to make sense out of what the Bible says on the unwarranted assumption it's divinely inspired? The Bible is a book of contradictions, and a source of confusion for many, including Christians.
The bible doesn't go into detail about what the afterlife will be like and how people will be judged in all the different scenarios possible. On those things, we may speculate, disagree, and have our personal opinions. I don't see why that's such a big deal. The important thing, and what actually matters, is that we all agree we can only be 100% responsible for our own souls, and we trust in God's judgement for the rest.
It may not be a big deal for you, but when I see you guys attempting to make sense out of what is clearly a source of confusion due to its several ambiguous passages and doctrinal contradictions, it makes me just want to exclaim that it makes much more sense that the whole thing is man-made. It's one thing to try to interpret what a passage in the Bible says (which is good scholarly practice), it's a whole other thing to assume the Bible is internally coherent and to speculate on what the Bible overall says about this or that (usually based on disjointed passages from different books in the Bible).
