RE: Can You Technically Disprove the God of the Bible?
April 30, 2015 at 8:21 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2015 at 8:23 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 30, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Lek Wrote:(April 30, 2015 at 5:12 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Then why would such a god use such a poor mechanism to communicate such a message?
Texts, that contain metaphor, parable, myth, along with this 'truth' you say it contains, with no method to discern the difference. For every verse that one Christian claims is parable, other Christians will claim it is literal.
He does this in ancient languages, that he should know would die out and be open to broad interpretation, which only server to muddle his message further. Texts that were also open to edits, additions, copy errors, mistranslated, etc and not even written down for decades or longer. Not to mention internal and external contradictions.
Couldn't a god come up with a much better method to transmit his message in order to assure it is communicated with 100% confidence that it is being interpreted correctly and is in the original form?
He used men to write the bible and it was written the way people would write in those days. I guess that's the way he wanted to do it. I think he wanted us to do some work, and also to rely on his guidance.
So, this god, who allegedly wants to communicate the most important message to his creations. A message so important, that if we get it wrong, or don't believe it at all, threatens our immortal soul for eternity, and we only get one relatively short (80 or so years) time to get it, does not care enough to make sure the message is communicated in a unchanged, accurate form to his creation.
You believe in a pretty impotent god if he can't see the problem with that plan.
And if he can see the problem, that means he created the majority of us, knowing ahead of time that we are going to be punished in hell, or not be rewarded in heaven, for his own failed communication methods. And what is our crime? The belief in the wrong god, or disbelief in all gods, brought on by his poor communication methods.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.