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RE: The Real Bible: Genesis Chapter 1
May 4, 2015 at 8:03 am
(May 3, 2015 at 11:07 pm)Theoretical Skeptic Wrote: (May 3, 2015 at 10:38 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Oh! I get it! It's because you say so!
OP, you do realize there are 39,000 sects of Christianity? At least 20 different followings of Judaism? More than 20 in Islam? All Abrahamic religions... but what about those who are non-denominational? Those who say they have the "correct" interpretation of the Bible or other holy book number pretty much all of those people involved in all of those different sects?
In other words: why are you right, and they're all wrong? Why are you the special snowflake?
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RE: The Real Bible: Genesis Chapter 1
May 4, 2015 at 8:13 am
Oooh, he's gonna burn in Hell for that one!
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RE: The Real Bible: Genesis Chapter 1
May 4, 2015 at 8:45 am
(May 3, 2015 at 10:00 pm)Theoretical Skeptic Wrote: The Hebrew verb consists of two different states. The perfect state indicates an action which is complete, whereas the imperfect state indicates a continuous or incomplete action.
Anytime someone uses the difference in language to explain a particular interpretation of a Bible passage, I am reminded that according to that same Bible, it was god who confused man's languages and is therefore directly responsible for the diversity of language in the world. That means that any confusion over the wording of any passage or text is god's fault; he could've made it so that languages were perfectly consistent with one another to avoid any such misunderstanding or misinterpretation. But he didn't. He also could've "inspired" the writers to write more clearly and with more detail, but he didn't. It's almost as if he wanted the Bible to be an indecipherable mess so that he could watch humanity stumble over itself trying to make sense of it. Or if, you know... he didn't exist and it was just a bunch of stories written by ordinary people inspired by nothing more than their imaginations.
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RE: The Real Bible: Genesis Chapter 1
May 4, 2015 at 8:52 am
He could have inspired a new language that everyone immediately always understood, and which couldn't be altered once written.
If he's omnipotent of course. Sock boy here was playing the nomni angle, which is more defensible, I'll give him that.
