(November 6, 2017 at 3:11 pm)pool the matey Wrote:Harry Nevis Wrote:"Does a good job"?! For who? For someone who only wants the bible to say what they want to believe?
That's not what I meant, what I meant was that the ten commandments does a good job of delivering the meaning or rather purpose of the Bible.
Quote:You're making no sense. What am I disagreeing with that caused me to be born?
What I meant was that the world we're living in now was shaped by what happened in the past, it's like the ripple effect where one event leads to another and so on. It is said that even a small change of a variable in the past will result in a drastic change in the present.
Like for example, imagine you time travel back in time and picks up a rock and put it somewhere else, who knows maybe your great great great grandfather who is supposed to be alive will somehow die just because you misplaced a simple rock and lead to a vastly different present.
What I meant was the many things you disagreed with like for example the death of many people are precisely the reason you are alive today to disagree with that very thing, because if someone could travel back in time and stop those deaths from happening we would be living in a vastly different present, maybe one where you or I won't even be alive. I just thought it was ironic, sorry for overly complicating lol
And, of course, you're assuming the purpose of the bible. If it's to convince people that the christian god exists, and is good and just, it fails miserably.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
