jmharris23
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Awesome avatar pic. Time spent like in that pic is truth, reality, quality, and worth the time and energy.
Thank you and I don't disagree with any of that. I am a blessed man.
Awesome avatar pic. Time spent like in that pic is truth, reality, quality, and worth the time and energy.
Thank you and I don't disagree with any of that. I am a blessed man.
I'm no so sure they did.
Many of the ancient Jews were worshiping many different gods and multiple gods too.
The god of Abraham was one of a pantheon of Babylonian gods. It took time to transition from polytheism to monotheism.
Would you take a knife to your johnson over a story you believed was just allegory?
Lolol, no, but...
It is not like every Jew since Adam believed in and followed ONE god. (Plus we know Adam was not the start of the culture)And they were slicing and dicing before any written Torah. They borrowed it from the Egyptians and the practice is believed to be 15,000 years old. No history book needed for people to do WHACKy things.
So you completely tie the validity of the Bible and the existence of the Christian God together?If I didn't believe it were true then I would be agnostic at best.
So you completely tie the validity of the Bible and the existence of the Christian God together?
Reason I'm asking is because even after I rejected the Bible as being "true" I still wrestled for a long period of time with the question "if I reject the Bible how can I still believe in God"? I couldn't think of anything I "knew" and couldn't find anything out about God that didn't originate from it.
Thanks.Yes, that's right, I view them as completely tied together.
Thanks.
That's where I ended up too but obviously with different results
That was actually an issue I thought about. It always bothered me that what I was being taught seemed to be the "nice" or "pretty picture" version of the Bible as opposed to the accurate version of the Bible.Yep....very different.
Honestly though, I would rather someone dismiss it out of hand rather than twist it as some kind of "good" book full of moral niceties.
Yep....very different.
Honestly though, I would rather someone dismiss it out of hand rather than twist it as some kind of "good" book full of moral niceties.
Whatever they believed I think the point is it was taken as literally true, not as a story made up to teach a lesson like Aesop's fables.
Honestly though, I would rather someone dismiss it out of hand rather than twist it as some kind of "good" book full of moral niceties.
I agree. I don't think it fits that role very well anyway.