RE: Christianity compatible with atheism
October 4, 2011 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2011 at 4:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The text is full of what I like to call "little miracles" as well. Sometimes something miraculous can seem mundane when placed next to the magical events of the OT/NT. What we have here is a case of fan fiction elevated to a religious system. It's fine to "believe that there's something beyond science". It's not fine to make claims to knowledge of whatever it is you believe when there is none to be had. Does what we know directly conflict with the narrative on irreconcilable levels? Yes, it does. End of.
What is it that you feel is accurate within the bible? Explain this to me please? How much of it can be "not true" before the "generally true" provision is revoked? Arguing on the one hand that there is a god, and allowing on the other that those easily evaluated claims of his actions are false leaves you with what god exactly? Certainly not yahweh. Not the creator in the garden, the master of the floodwaters, the deliverer from pharoah. Not the steward of the great and powerful kingdom of isreal and not the destroyer of cities. Who's son again?
(By the by, that some people would argue for a flood is exactly what I'm going on about here. Whatever principles they held that allowed them to engage in their field of choice, whatever understanding they had of the subject at hand, was thrown under the bus to make their myth fit.)
What is it that you feel is accurate within the bible? Explain this to me please? How much of it can be "not true" before the "generally true" provision is revoked? Arguing on the one hand that there is a god, and allowing on the other that those easily evaluated claims of his actions are false leaves you with what god exactly? Certainly not yahweh. Not the creator in the garden, the master of the floodwaters, the deliverer from pharoah. Not the steward of the great and powerful kingdom of isreal and not the destroyer of cities. Who's son again?
(By the by, that some people would argue for a flood is exactly what I'm going on about here. Whatever principles they held that allowed them to engage in their field of choice, whatever understanding they had of the subject at hand, was thrown under the bus to make their myth fit.)
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