- are believers of premeditated forgeries religious, no, are they irrational, yes.
Seems rational to me;
Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2017
clue me in, what rationally have archeological discoveries have to do with premeditated forgeries written in a manufactured 4th century manuscript ...
Hi
BreezeWood
I'll take my best shot at trying to explain the connection.
Because humanity has a built in instinctual/natural inclination toward faith in God or Good will prevailing over evil or ill will,
then this faith is REFLECTED in our writings, throughout history,
including our Bible which could even be FAKE as you say,
and in our Bill of Rights proclaiming natural laws and rights
given by God or Nature.
Whether these laws or religions are True or False,
whether "divinely inspired" or manmade religious GARBAGE
they still REFLECT man's DESIRE or BELIEF in the
good will behind laws and spirit of "truth and justice"
which God and Jesus are manmade symbols of,
whether these things truly exist or not outside man's constructs.
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Because humanity has a built in instinctual/natural inclination toward faith in God or Good will prevailing over evil or ill will,
then this faith is REFLECTED in our writings, throughout history,
including our Bible which could even be FAKE as you say,
you are a senseless person lynghiem, you know nothing first hand what is meant by the expression of an Almighty ...
Dear
BreezeWood
I see you speak for yourself, not for God.
God speaks Wisdom to Buddhists through Buddhism, Truth to atheists through science and reason,
Justice to Constitutionalists through natural laws, Eternal laws and spiritual history
to Jews Christians and Muslims through Biblical scriptures.
If you don't see God speaking to us in all these ways
and authorties under his Divine Dominion
then you don't see how Great God is.
God's laws and truth are universal, and independent of any
words or ways we might use to share and understand these
with others. If Christians use the Bible to share God's truth,
if you do not trust God to speak to them then that's your lack of faith
and fear that some force at play is greater than God. Or that God
would punish people by depriving them of truth because they
are using a flawed language to try to explain and understand the truth.
But all our languages and laws are flawed, don't you think
God knows that, and his truth is greater than all the flaws of man
and our laws combined?
You are right that God is greater than the Bible
which can barely do God justice in symbolizing what is infinite and eternal.
That doesn't make the Bible false, but the wrong
interpretations of it false, and your rejection of the right with the wrong
is just as flawed and human as the false teaching and following of it that you criticize.
There ARE wrong ways of teaching the Bible yes.
But that doesn't mean there's no right way to teach it.
God has a way to use ALL things to teach the truth.
All tribes respond to different languages so we cover as much as possible.
If you don't see that, that's your problem.
Don't blame it on man and say God didn't have
a hand or purpose in how the Bible was written.
If you miss God's meaning and purpose in the Bible,
then you are missing part of God's message and truth.
God's wisdom and truth takes all the things we have
experienced and shared in order to explain and express it
and it's still not enough to contain all of God's truth.
But that's the most we humans can understand.
yes our language laws and words are limited and flawed.
But even if the pitcher isn't perfect, it still holds water
and can pour it into a cup to share with others.
The water is still water, regardless which vessel we used to serve it.
Don't judge the water contained therein just because the
vessel is deformed and flawed. Of course it is.
People are not perfect and our understanding is limited
and biased by whatever culture and language we inject trying to communicate
God's truth.
But you can still use that to share and express
God's wisdom. the water does not depend on the vessel,
but is what it is, despite any holes in our manmade systems that cannot contain it all.