(October 2, 2013 at 11:36 pm)ThomM Wrote:(October 2, 2013 at 7:55 am)themonkeyman Wrote:
Actually - I have always recommended that a person READ the bible - start with page one - and read the entire thing.
Note that most of the stories of the Old Testament are MYTH and created Legend. THERE never was a garden of eden - nor a great flood - nor Joshua in a battle at Jericho
Now - use your intelligence - why would a god who knows everything - allow a book to be represented as its Infallible word - yet contain so MANY things that simply cannot be true.
Example - according to the bible timeline - the earth is only 6000 or so years old -so HOW come there are tree trunks with over 10,000 annual rings that can be physically counted (I know the earth is billions of years old - but I only need prove that it is NOT 6000 to debunk the bible)
A column of water of the height of the claimed great flood would - by pressure - literally destroy every single man made thing on earth - yet the flood - claimed to be 300 years after the building of the great pyramid - had NO effect on that pyramid. WHY - the story is MYTH.
If you only found 149 things wrong - you were not counting - the very first page of the bible has almost that many wrong.
You're giving advice that you haven't practiced, no where does scripture claim the earth is just 6000 years old. You have no proof against Joshua, nor can you prove the rest of the OT is myth. There are fossilized trees standing vertically through tens of thousands of years of sedimentary layers, how is that possible, it ain't.

God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.