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Religion/god is just wishful thinking.
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RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking.
(April 17, 2013 at 5:10 pm)Godschild Wrote: Your wall of text has no answer for this: We have a copy of the Book of Jeremiah that is 2300 to 2500 years old, and it 's word for word with today's translation, there are a few words different, but in no way do they change what the passage says. If this book is reliable to this great extent, then why do you presume the rest of scriptures have been altered. We have no original copies and never will, without them your points are meaningless.

1. There are 65 other books which are canon, so in 3000+ years we've managed to verify the authenticity of a whopping 1.5% of the books which were not arbitrarily discarded or lost. Given that the stories of the Bible were not all written at once by the same person in the same place, and the fact that many tales in the Bible are known to be inherited myths from older cultures (many of which have been substantially altered), if Jeremiah actually is as accurate as you claim, common sense tells us that it is almost certainly an outlier. It also does not take into account that the Bible is a recording of many stories which passed by word of mouth for decades or even centuries before being committed to parchment or papyrus, so there's no way of knowing whether the Bible got any of it right in the first place.

2. It doesn't matter if every single word in the Bible has been unaltered since the day each word first touched a writing surface, because that does not even suggest that a single one of those words is non-fictional, so really, it is your point which is meaningless.
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Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by frz - April 15, 2013 at 5:45 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 15, 2013 at 8:51 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Brayton.l - April 15, 2013 at 9:03 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 16, 2013 at 1:25 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Esquilax - April 16, 2013 at 2:03 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 16, 2013 at 3:20 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by pocaracas - April 16, 2013 at 5:29 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 16, 2013 at 6:31 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 16, 2013 at 9:10 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 17, 2013 at 12:52 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Cato - April 17, 2013 at 2:53 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Esquilax - April 16, 2013 at 11:06 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 17, 2013 at 5:10 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Ryantology - April 17, 2013 at 9:13 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 19, 2013 at 1:12 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 19, 2013 at 8:01 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by ThomM - April 16, 2013 at 8:46 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Godschild - April 16, 2013 at 7:51 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Esquilax - April 17, 2013 at 11:45 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Minimalist - April 15, 2013 at 10:12 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Gearbreak - April 15, 2013 at 11:40 pm
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by pocaracas - April 16, 2013 at 6:27 am
Re: RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by frz - April 16, 2013 at 10:29 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Tonus - April 16, 2013 at 11:16 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Darkstar - April 16, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Re: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by frz - April 17, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Re: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by frz - April 19, 2013 at 5:46 am
RE: Religion/god is just wishful thinking. - by Soyouz - April 21, 2013 at 3:25 pm

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