Actually - there has ALWAYS been a problem with Religions that claim a single creator god (Monotheism like Judaism - and Polytheism like Xtianity that claim ONE god created everything).
The claim that the god is ALL GOOD cannot literally be true. The god has to be the creator and the source of EVERYTHING - both good and evil.
When I was Young - I was taught that the bible was a complete INSPIRED and INERRANT word of god. ANd then - the NUNS taught us evolution - which of course contradicted the bible - along with a lot of other scientific facts that are in direct conflict with the bible.
Every year of my life - science (Archeology, Geology, Physics, Genetics - and many more) has established more and more of the bible to be clearly nothing more than the Observations of a group of ancient cave dwellers and nomads - who then tried to explain those things they SAW>
The earth was FLAT - because as they saw - even from a high place - it only reached to the Horizon and then fell off. IT was a flat circle -as stated in the bible - because if YOU are at a high place and turn in a circle - the "ends" of the earth seem to BE a circle. IT was slightly concave - because something had to be there to keep the water from falling off the ends of the earth.
AS we know - the stories of the Great Flood - the Exodus - the battle of Jericho - the creation sequence and time, and the early "history" of the Hebrew nation - are simply MYTH and LEGEND. WE have no reason to believe that the jews were in Bondage to Egypt at the time of the supposed exodus - since they are NOT mentioned in the list of such subjects that is very inclusive - found in egypt. OF course - there is also no reason to believe the jews even existed at that time at all - outside of the religion - there IS no mention of them in the historic record of that time - or an other before 1220 BCE.
And - there is ALSO no mention of the christ in the historic record of his supposed time - nor mention of his mother or father as well. In the golden age of ROME - where we have records of turtle races - and records of at least 20 OTHER claimed messiahs - the christ is no where to be found.
Once YOU eliminate the "inerrant" from the bible - by PROVING ONE THING is actually wrong - then the rest of the bible stands only on what can be proven and corroborated from OUTSIDE the bible - and very little can be.
As I have pointed out before - there was a Kansas - but that in no way proves that the WIzard of Oz was a real person. But I still have to believe that a person who went around rising rotting corpses from the dead WOULD have been mentioned somewhere!
The claim that the god is ALL GOOD cannot literally be true. The god has to be the creator and the source of EVERYTHING - both good and evil.
When I was Young - I was taught that the bible was a complete INSPIRED and INERRANT word of god. ANd then - the NUNS taught us evolution - which of course contradicted the bible - along with a lot of other scientific facts that are in direct conflict with the bible.
Every year of my life - science (Archeology, Geology, Physics, Genetics - and many more) has established more and more of the bible to be clearly nothing more than the Observations of a group of ancient cave dwellers and nomads - who then tried to explain those things they SAW>
The earth was FLAT - because as they saw - even from a high place - it only reached to the Horizon and then fell off. IT was a flat circle -as stated in the bible - because if YOU are at a high place and turn in a circle - the "ends" of the earth seem to BE a circle. IT was slightly concave - because something had to be there to keep the water from falling off the ends of the earth.
AS we know - the stories of the Great Flood - the Exodus - the battle of Jericho - the creation sequence and time, and the early "history" of the Hebrew nation - are simply MYTH and LEGEND. WE have no reason to believe that the jews were in Bondage to Egypt at the time of the supposed exodus - since they are NOT mentioned in the list of such subjects that is very inclusive - found in egypt. OF course - there is also no reason to believe the jews even existed at that time at all - outside of the religion - there IS no mention of them in the historic record of that time - or an other before 1220 BCE.
And - there is ALSO no mention of the christ in the historic record of his supposed time - nor mention of his mother or father as well. In the golden age of ROME - where we have records of turtle races - and records of at least 20 OTHER claimed messiahs - the christ is no where to be found.
Once YOU eliminate the "inerrant" from the bible - by PROVING ONE THING is actually wrong - then the rest of the bible stands only on what can be proven and corroborated from OUTSIDE the bible - and very little can be.
As I have pointed out before - there was a Kansas - but that in no way proves that the WIzard of Oz was a real person. But I still have to believe that a person who went around rising rotting corpses from the dead WOULD have been mentioned somewhere!
