RE: Evidence God Exists
September 17, 2010 at 6:53 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm by Watson.)
^Isn't that kind of what we would expect, though? That a soul would be individual to the person explaining it, and would be personally explainable only by that person?
In short: God is indepedent of the Bible. Perhaps you read the Bible wrong, did not absord the contents, or simply didn't make the proper connections to the Bible's parables and real life situations that the Bible intends to be made. I don't know you, so I'm not sure.
Or maybe you are projecting the meaning you think 'proves your point' onto the Bible because you don't understand enough about the being it is depicting to read it and analyze it accurately?
(September 16, 2010 at 3:02 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: How can I understand god poorly when I've read the source material thoroughly?*sigh. I've been through this before...it is a fallacious question that assumes the Bible and God are somehow co-dependent on each other's existance; not so. God would exist without the Bible, but the Bible would not exist without God.
In short: God is indepedent of the Bible. Perhaps you read the Bible wrong, did not absord the contents, or simply didn't make the proper connections to the Bible's parables and real life situations that the Bible intends to be made. I don't know you, so I'm not sure.
Quote:Is it because its badly written and open to many interpretations?No, it is not. It is written quite beautifully, IMHO, and depicts a being which is observable i nthe real world; you just have to understand that being first before you can understand the Bible.
Quote:Or is it because what it says is not what you want it to and you're projecting you're desire onto the text without understanding its ACTUAL meaning.
Or maybe you are projecting the meaning you think 'proves your point' onto the Bible because you don't understand enough about the being it is depicting to read it and analyze it accurately?