(March 3, 2018 at 8:20 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:(March 3, 2018 at 8:06 pm)Banned Wrote: ...
"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"
Most believers read the Bible with the mindset that the book was written by God. Reading it without that mindset has a completely different result.
I had to memorize a Bible passage every day as a child and had to recite it at dinner. KJV, not that it's particularly relevant.
But about 10 years ago I started reading it with questions - analyzing it just as I would any other text. That's what tipped me over the edge into atheism.
So I was immersed in the "word of god" from the time I was in the womb. Funny that returning to it killed what little gullibility I had left. You would think,
if there was anything special about that book at all, that this would be impossible. Yet there are a lot of atheists out there who make the same claim - read the
Bible. Hmm.
You have to drink the kooky koolaid first and THEN read the bible. If you get detoxed, it won't work anymore.
The ten laws of God - to Love God and fellow creatures, what part didn't gel with you?
Because that's the summary of the Bible. That's what "hearing" is all about.