(March 16, 2023 at 11:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 16, 2023 at 5:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Yeah, atheists, are you so ignorant that you think that Christians actually believe all that crap from the Bible? It is so arrogantly ignorant that you think that Christians believe that a man lived in a belly of a big fish, or that donkey talked, and you are at your dumbest when you think that Christians believe that a virgin got pregnant and then some dumb carpenter walked on water and resurrected from the dead. I mean give me a break!
Be that as it may, IMHO literal-minded approaches rob people of texts' depth from reaching them, regardless of whether they are JW-AssemblyOfGod-MoodyBible-SouthernBaptist-types or internet atheists. I know I have barely scratched the texts and look forward to understanding them more...particularly in terms of the ancient middle east mindset.
And if you are taking the Bible seriously, then why do you take it seriously?
What has convinced you that this is the one true faith and that the jewish god is real?