(July 10, 2020 at 8:21 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(July 10, 2020 at 10:02 am)masoni Wrote: christian theology is incoherent to the point of absurdity. god killing his son so he can forgive our future sin is like me breaking my son"s legs so i can forgive my neighbor in case she ever parks her car on my drive. it is quite ridiculous.Right.
Biblical scholarship, biblical studies, biblical archaeology, and such like are legitimate areas of study. Theology? Not so much. Theology is simply a bunch of oddballs who simply know how to extract a salary on the basis of a bucket of crap. No theoligians actually believe their own crap.
biblical theology has got nothing to do with the study of the history of the time period in question circa 3rd millennium b.c.e. to 1st century c.e. through the collection of texts called the bible. neither is it the attempt to find what in these texts is historically accurate or not, that is what biblical criticism is about. theology itself is simply a mad attempt to find new metaphorical interpretations of texts that where not meant to be metaphorical, in order to maintain christianity as a relevant force in modern times. tremendous energy and effort is expended on the fruitless task of trying to salvage something meaningful, and relevant, from this highly inaccurate scientifically and historically, incoherent, poorly written and poorly compiled set of books.
