tavarish- You seriously don't want to admit that their is such a thing as individuality, do you?
Your assumption and fallacious logic lies in the idea that I read the Bible and then, looked around and attributed everything to what was in the Bible. Not so. My beliefs were formed because, as I began to step away from atheism, I was encountering situations which I could not explain with any logical or scientific method at all. Keep in mind, at this point I still did not believe in a God of any sort.
I only just recently began reading the Bible, and have found that, whoa! It fits what's been going on in my life extremely well.
All the holy books ever written are an attempt by man at putting into words what is going on around him and explaining it in such a way that makes sense to him. However, living in different places, growing up in different conditions, even just plain being different people leads each holy book to have differences based on the particular author's mindset. Alas, some holy books are written with the express position of trying to dominate othr human beings, as is human nature to do so.
However, all of them are an attempt at describing the same phenomenon. I am sure that had I never been exposed to the Abhramic view of religion or any sort of holy book whatsoever, I would have still come to the conclusion that there was a God and I would have still believed He worked in the same way He is desccribed as working in each and every holy book. Yet, it's completely irrelevant, because despite everything, that's not what happened. At all.
Your assumption and fallacious logic lies in the idea that I read the Bible and then, looked around and attributed everything to what was in the Bible. Not so. My beliefs were formed because, as I began to step away from atheism, I was encountering situations which I could not explain with any logical or scientific method at all. Keep in mind, at this point I still did not believe in a God of any sort.
I only just recently began reading the Bible, and have found that, whoa! It fits what's been going on in my life extremely well.
All the holy books ever written are an attempt by man at putting into words what is going on around him and explaining it in such a way that makes sense to him. However, living in different places, growing up in different conditions, even just plain being different people leads each holy book to have differences based on the particular author's mindset. Alas, some holy books are written with the express position of trying to dominate othr human beings, as is human nature to do so.
However, all of them are an attempt at describing the same phenomenon. I am sure that had I never been exposed to the Abhramic view of religion or any sort of holy book whatsoever, I would have still come to the conclusion that there was a God and I would have still believed He worked in the same way He is desccribed as working in each and every holy book. Yet, it's completely irrelevant, because despite everything, that's not what happened. At all.
