RE: The Bible: A Moral book?!
April 12, 2012 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2012 at 4:33 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
Technically, the 'bible' isn't a really book at all. It's a collection of 66 books, certain groups of books within it can be treated as one: the Torah, the Prophets, the Gospels, etc. It's unwise to make broad overly generalizations about the traditional canon.
Anyone can see that the scriptures are filled with complex metaphors and layers of meaning that go well beyond what we see on the surface.
I am still puzzled how satan-worshipping nihilists (joke) can judge anything, whether it's a person or a book, as immoral and at the same time deny the existence of any transcendent power or principle that provides a moral standard or reference point.
(August 31, 2009 at 2:39 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The bible is incredibly watertight. Those backward goat herders certainly did an amazing job that even our supposed advanced understanding has nothing to add to it.C'mon. Why do you insist on shoehorning modern science into a deeply symbolic language, language meant to tell us about God's nature and our relationship with Him? You mix the sacred with the profane and you get a chimera, a corruption of science and spirituality.
(August 31, 2009 at 2:39 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: To say it isn't written clearly enough is to dismiss it. Children can get it, it's that simple, so it isn't a case of obscurity through complexity.I would say quite the opposite. Every word and phrase carries an inner spiritual meaning.
Anyone can see that the scriptures are filled with complex metaphors and layers of meaning that go well beyond what we see on the surface.
(August 31, 2009 at 11:06 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: How many of us here (mostly theists I'm guessing) think the bible is somehow a 'moral book'...There's a load of horrible shit in the bible, and the good stuff can be picked out...without all the horrible shit that, I personally would not call moral!
I am still puzzled how satan-worshipping nihilists (joke) can judge anything, whether it's a person or a book, as immoral and at the same time deny the existence of any transcendent power or principle that provides a moral standard or reference point.
