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Author Topic:   Not reading God's Word right is just wrong. No talking snakes!
Logic
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Message 8 of 157 (486595)
10-22-2008 11:14 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Greatest I am
10-22-2008 8:43 AM


So basically you want us to ignore all the evidence within the bible that points to it being written by a civilisation that still held magical beliefs at its heart.
The original followers of every bible up to modern times took its contents as literal truth, why all of a sudden does modern society need to read the bible as philosophical writings in order to understand it?
Basically you’re trying to brush aside things like talking snakes so that you don’t have to deal with them. Let me give you an example:
John is in a book store and yells out to Marry “Look I told you Jabba-the-Hutt was real, it says so here in the good book of Star Wars”
Marry replies “You believe in a giant talking slug that’s unrealistic; no such animal has ever been discovered, and slugs can’t talk they don’t have voice boxes”
John stares back “No.. no.. you see Jabba-the-Hutt isn’t really a giant slug, hes a representation of a giant fat man”
Marry in turn replies “Then why didn’t they just call him a giant fat man?”
John sniggers “That’s easy, your looking at it to much, you haven’t seen the hidden reading as I have. George Lucus works in mysterious ways”

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Logic
Member (Idle past 5044 days)
Posts: 31
From: Australia
Joined: 02-11-2008


Message 16 of 157 (486702)
10-23-2008 7:05 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Greatest I am
10-23-2008 10:50 AM


Greatest I am,
I think your missing the point, as we advance scientifically as a species more and more philosophy gets replaced by science. Basically philosophy is just a place holder for what is yet to be explained. If you truly want to find god, stop following a book written by un-educated men of the past who believed the world was flat. Look into the future of what we know of science now, look at what is known about the natural world around you and then try to form your ideas of god. Stop being one of many sheep and actually look for god’s word in nature, maybe the god you’re searching for isn't the god you want to find.
I'm not sure if I can explain this to you in any other way. Just know that what you believe to be god now might become science of tomorrow.

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