(November 21, 2018 at 5:18 am)pocaracas Wrote:(November 21, 2018 at 4:40 am)Everena Wrote: The Bible is an historical account of what people were doing at that time. If they were doing the right things, they would not have needed the 10 Commandments or for Jesus to come.
Some parts are historical accounts, yes.
Some parts are regulating people's behaviour, like laws.
Some parts are fable.
Some parts are fairy tale.
Discerning these parts is an art form that believers seldom possess.
Both the 10 commandments and Jesus came too late in the story for it to be reasonable that an all knowing blob of energy is behind them.
They appear as knee jerk reactions long after the custom of the land has been established, when such a god as the one you advocate should have foreseen things and acted preemptively. This alone informs me that those two acts are fully man made. Either the stories themselves are man made, or the commandments are man made and Jesus was nothing but a man.
I am not a Christian. I think all religions are man-made, but with a very good purpose in mind. However, I think it is important to consider that they may have been inspired by actual prophets of God.
