(July 9, 2017 at 11:01 am)Astonished Wrote:(July 9, 2017 at 5:40 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The committee that wrote the original Bible in 692 A.D. inserted those things to prove that it was a practical joke. Once they put it all down in ink on vellum it became reality and no one was the wiser because there were no competing written stories. Today we can easily identify all of the nonsense because we have computers to do search comparisons. In the past people only read a little bit at the time and so the never saw the big picture. And they didn't allow common people to read the Bible for about 1,000 years. Today we can see that for every issue there is an opposite pov. When it says don't kill the next story is a slaughter.
Already knew most of that, but it still doesn't change anything about my previous statement. It can't be taken seriously in the first place if you have to flip a coin about every issue since you can find justifications for and against every one of them.
The point of the biblical stories is to teach total obedience. They are not really concerned with anything else. If Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews and the God of the armies, tells you to gut and roast your son as a sign of faith in him you do it without any lip. If you are in the military and you are commanded to charge a machine gun nest you do it without a second thought. It's all about obedience in all matters. Do as you are told to do, whatever it is. Remember, according to the fairy tale your leaders were appointed by Yahweh so if you disobey them then you are disobeying him and will get tossed into the lake of fire.
