RE: Divine Inspiration
July 9, 2019 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2019 at 11:22 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 9, 2019 at 9:58 am)tackattack Wrote: I don't mean to misinterpret you. You're expecting that the writers of the Bible dictate what some voice tells them to write. You don't live or act that way, so why would you expect the writers then to. We all filter what we do through what we know and understand, it's called bias, and we all have one. Especially when one realizes the depth of omnipotence versus the finite reasoning capability of Humans. As acrobat says they weren't trying to convey scientific facts, they were conveying what they witnessed though their eyes.
But maybe he's asking why did authors of the Bible lie to us? Why did they say that all those events like world wide flood and Moses escaping Egypt and Samson killing thousands of people with his bare hands and zombies walking around Jerusalem happen when they didn't?
Or why does Bible lie that people can be healed by prayer and exorcism? Or why does Bible lie that there are witches that we should kill when there aren't? Or why does Bible lie that if you believe in Jesus then you'll be immune to poisonous snakes and move trees around at will when that's not true?
You simply seem too focused on word "science" and simply ignore that that means observable reality and therefore say what is truthful.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
