(December 13, 2008 at 10:08 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(December 13, 2008 at 7:58 pm)Daystar Wrote: What I was saying was a great deal more simple than that. One who has studied the Bible knows more about it and what it says than one who doesn't.The problem with this reasoning is that even different biblical scholars disagree on what words mean in the Bible. They are all working from an angle, and if a biblical scholar wants to bash gay people, he will find a passage in the bible to do that.
So what you are saying is that nothing in the Bible can be true because scholars disagree upon it? How is this similar to science.
(December 13, 2008 at 10:08 pm)Tiberius Wrote: You are of the anti-science kind. You simply close your eyes to the evidence in front of you, and hold that the Bible cannot be wrong, and so the evidence (or at least our understanding of it) is wrong. Never have you thought "maybe the Bible is wrong", because that goes against your religion.
See? You make the assumption that the Bible is wrong and call that evidence based upon nothing. You do the same thing you acuse me of doing only you do it from an uneducated (ignorance of the Bible) view.
And I don't do that with science you only assume I do because I believe in the Bible. Round and round we go. Never stops, never moves forward.
The Bible says the soul is literally the blood of any living animal or man or figuratively the life of that animal or man. Most Bible Scholars agree, but religion says that the soul is immortal. A part of us that lives on after we die. They got this from pagan teachings going way back and then introduced to Socrates and Plato. All of this is well documented.
So Socrates and Plato are a good read to the intellectual, no? But they teach the nonsense of the soul that religion teaches. Religion claims the Bible as inspiration but they don't know it so well.
The Atheist - reading Socrates and thinking that is cool, learns everything about the Bible not from the scholars but from the religious, and while the Bible teaches a more practical version of the soul than Socrates or religion you judge the Bible from the religion.
Does that all make sense to you?
