Agreed for the most part. The "look through the eyes of those back in the Bible times and how things looked to and were described by them and use common sense" part of your statement is the key to having a legitimate discussion about it. Anyone who fails to apply that, and repeats obvious scientific impossibilities as literal fact because they were described that way by people long ago who didn't understand them, is not helping their case. They just look gullible and unwilling to use their brain that God gave them. If you are willing to admit that the Bible has flaws in it from the time and circumstances of its writing, and is not necessarily all literal, then I can discuss it with you, but if you are a literalist, it's not so easy.I can’t disagree except a rock is something we can see where it lands. And it’s something we can do and not read about.
Faith is unseen. Remove all bible stories and it really doesn’t affect our faith. It isn’t in a talking snake or any such stories.
Remember, look through the eyes of those 6,000 years ago at how things looked and were described by them and use common sense. I wonder what the differences are between now and then of the sound a sea shell makes.
I’ve never seen a talking snake and probably would be the first one to shoot it and the last one to tell anyone it talked.
As far as what non believers think about the sanity or questioning believers intelligence, to each his own. That’s always been, always will be.
I think where the line is drawn is when non believers ask for evidence without “regurgitated scripture”, yet regurgitated scripture is exactly where non believers go after claiming certain things.
It’s true that anyone can take a scripture and make it say or mean whatever they want, but when you use the entire Bible, it’s a different outcome and when you don’t, it reveals a lack of understanding of the Bible.
Further, when thousands of denominations and “Christians” tell non believers thats not what that means”.........it does question why is it just non believers and some radical Muslims that think scripture commands to rape and kill?
Other than that, I agree, some people, including Christians fail to exercise common sense.
If you were a man in 2,000 BC, you might be pardoned for believing that a man could be swallowed by a whale and live three days and nights; or, not knowing about other continents or anywhere really outside of your own vicinity, believing that a man could round up every species of animal on the earth and stuff them into a boat 450 feet long, etc. If you still believe those things to be possible now, there is a flaw in your logic somewhere.