(January 10, 2015 at 12:22 pm)whateverist Wrote:(January 10, 2015 at 10:48 am)Grasshopper Wrote: You know I don't know why people read it. Hell I don't know why I read it. I haven't completed it yet.
Good answer. So that makes me wonder if there are other books which have had as much or more importance to you as the bible. I'm more than willing to concede that the bible can be a good book. I just don't think it is god's official, transcribed word to mankind. Doesn't mean you can't read it to extract wisdom and meaning in your life. But I've done the same from so many other books that I just don't think it deserves the standing that Christians tend to attach to it. Then again, I haven't read it all or very much. I mostly know it from its being mentioned here or in other things I've read.
Ya well I guess it's like a window to how people have been worshipping and seeing god through the years. I noticed a very drastic change in the way God was portrayed in the first 5 books and the rest. In the first 5, he is like actively involved in the journey of israel. In the rest of the old testament he is portrayed in a more passive way, speaking to prophets or through signs only prophets could interpret. In the new testament he doesn't even have a role other than being mentioned. The more his role decreases the historical validity increases in proportion. I don't know the observation I feel is interesting. That is why I take the first 5 books as just stories depicting glory
