It’s amazing how many christians aren’t aware of these passages. Or they are, but shut them out as irrelevant.
In a nutshell, that outlines the problem with the bible - bible literalists must explicitly accept these parts of it too. However, if the bible is only meant as a set of parables to be interpreted metaphorically, then the whole thing should be treated as such.
This seems like such a simple concept, but talking reason to a bible thumping fundy is harder than getting water from a rock.
I still have yet to understand how atheists take scripture out of context and somehow think they have a “gotcha” that’s going to prove that God doesn’t exist. I don’t really understand the relevance of any of this. Most will agree that while the message and meaning behind the Bible is universal the way that it was written and communicated was not necessarily without fault.
None of these prove god doesn’t exist. Indeed, there’s no real real proof, be it biblical, mathematical, or logical, that god doesn’t exist.
Sure, there’s arguments such as omnipotence vs omnipresence, the creation of the creator, etc. which do make the concept of god doubtful at best - but seeing as god has the handy attribute of being outside the natural world, logic, conveniently, isn’t applicable.
These images do, however, highlight just a few of the many absurdities scattered throughout the bible’s pages.
Nice one! I got a giggle out of those.
It’s amazing how many christians aren’t aware of these passages. Or they are, but shut them out as irrelevant.
In a nutshell, that outlines the problem with the bible - bible literalists must explicitly accept these parts of it too. However, if the bible is only meant as a set of parables to be interpreted metaphorically, then the whole thing should be treated as such.
This seems like such a simple concept, but talking reason to a bible thumping fundy is harder than getting water from a rock.
[Reply]
I still have yet to understand how atheists take scripture out of context and somehow think they have a “gotcha” that’s going to prove that God doesn’t exist. I don’t really understand the relevance of any of this. Most will agree that while the message and meaning behind the Bible is universal the way that it was written and communicated was not necessarily without fault.
[Reply]
None of these prove god doesn’t exist. Indeed, there’s no real real proof, be it biblical, mathematical, or logical, that god doesn’t exist.
Sure, there’s arguments such as omnipotence vs omnipresence, the creation of the creator, etc. which do make the concept of god doubtful at best - but seeing as god has the handy attribute of being outside the natural world, logic, conveniently, isn’t applicable.
These images do, however, highlight just a few of the many absurdities scattered throughout the bible’s pages.
[Reply]