Sinners cannot understand the Bible!

[Giff]

It's a fact that the bible only makes sense when you believe in God. As a skeptical unbeliever how can you accept any of it? It makes perfect sense.

AFIK radio carbon dating can be inaccurate, but that does not discount every other usage.

I wouldn't say the minister was "Lying" but of course your phrase is intended to be emotive. He's wrong IMO and misguided by creationist nonsense. As shocking as you may find this, no one is perfect.

I personally can understand and agree with the philosophy that christianity have. That you should take care and help people, and to love and accept others. That's nothing I dissagree with.

As DLF said, I don't understand why atheist wouldn't be able to understand the bible. It is a book as any other book, and as I see it are people who are non-believers better at understand what the bible is all about. Many religious people close their eyes for those statements in the book that suggest that stoning your child is a good punishment and killing people from other religions is nothing wrong. Also homophobia is encouraged by the bible. But that is something some priests and christians are not agreeing with and saying it depends on how you inturputate the bible.

That is what I've heared, that you have interputate the bible and try to see what the image it describes is pointing at. Which I just see as a way of trying to cover up things which in todays society is moraly wrong.

I don't see why you have to be religious to understand what bible "really mean". In a way is it better that people interputate instead of believe that everyting n the bible is true. But then I don't understand why the bible is used in the first place. I don't think those who wrote it were writing everything in metaphores and meant something totally else when they wrote that men shouldn't sleep with another man and so on. Of course we don't know exactly what the authors believed, but I think according to how the bible is written and what people knew back then that they probably meant what they wrote. Otherwise could it easily been some people who wrote the bible on coffeebreakes jsut because they hadn't anything better to do.

I also wonder, how do someone define the word "sinner"?