This is why I tell my students (the older kids) that the Bible should not be like a set of rules and facts you must follow and believe 100%. A Bible should been seen as a guide to help you find your way to be kinder and more loving to not only your friends, family, and neighbors, but to your enemies and to yourself.
If you say you follow the Bible completely and never EVER go against it than you are a lier because you broke countless rules in it.
Ever wish someone dead. Yeah you didn't real mean you wanted to kill them but according to the Bible you committed murder by just thinking about it.
Every see someone cute and think of all the naughty stuff you want to do with them? Yeah bible says you just committed rape. And if you are married you also cheated on your spouse.
Well I think really all religion is basically a guide book to how that religion wants it's followers to live. See the moment you start to follow it so strictly that all you do is what the book allows than you might as well sit on top of a mountain naked and await for people to find you to give them advise. Yeah you will become extremely wise in your religion but your life will be extremely boring. Unless sitting on a mountain naked and waiting for people to find you is your thing but of course than that would be sinful in some religions because some find joy a sin.
I believe all God's and all religions only truely want is your devotion and to do what they feel is right. Which all usely say the same thing. Be kind to all. Help less fortunate. Thank your God for all he does and trust that what he does is meant to be good or bad.
I know that last bit is hard. Believing that God letting something bad happen is what needed to happen. Like children dieing of cancer. Yes alot die but due to so many in the past getting sick we know how to treat more and more kids every day. And the number for survival goes up.
It is like the black plague yes so many died but they found a way to cure it. No one dies from it anymore. We cured small pox and one day cancer will be cured and aids and so many other illnesses.
It's a terrible sacrifice but it helps us become stronger people. If we went back in time to any time before the 1900s we would risk getting the people of those time periods sick from germs we carry on our self that doesn't harm us. It be like when the white people met the Native Americans and the native Americans got sick.
Bad things have to happen for us as humans to improve and appreciate the good.
If nothing bad ever happen and no one ever died than we would be the most over run and boring planet.
I'm with this until the last line. What do you mean, people who didn't know how to write? Like, SOME people didn't know how to write? SOME people don't know how to write in 2019 too. I don't get his point.
Wow. It’s so smart. There are still people alive today who saw WW2 first hand, and even such a recent event as that or Vietnam of any number of things has fallen prey to revisionist history, transformation in the retelling, and so on. It’s been 47 years since a man stepped on the moon, and only a handful of people ever have done it. Those memories may be fuzzy- but we’d still go to them to ask what it’s like, and when they are gone history is all just people who weren’t there retelling stories. So shock- inaccuracies and political pressures exist in a several thousand year old book. Hell- I wouldn’t trust turbo tax 2010 to get my taxes right in 2019 and that’s just 9 years time. But Turbo tax 2010 still has some valid information in it.
So yeah- if you’re reading most any sacred, ancient, or holy text as a literal thing- heck, if you’re reading anything written by another human being for that matter and not applying any of your own critical thought and context that isn’t a good idea. Things change, specific details change, protocols and rules and manners and the like change as society and technology and everything else changes. Laws and even morals can become outdated. The fundamental ideas like “be nice to people,” “take care of yourself,” “don’t be a dick...” “don’t do unnecessary harm..” remain unchanged- it’s just the specifics of how to implement those concepts and what they mean that evolves. Stories give us questions, we must find answers that satisfy. Nothing humans touch is “pure” from bias or potential abuse or twisting to suit those in control.
You sound like you've been hurt by religious people claiming to be Christians. Try do some research on biblical proofs, there are a lot of historical documents from this time (Jewish and Roman) that corroborate the writings
1. When they find ever more ancient scrolls from what became the Jewish or Christian bibles, or writings that let them translate items they already have but can't understand (like the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), they find an amazing level of consistency.
2. This guy finds a way to denigrate the beliefs of people whose book tends to encourage them to be better people even by worldly standards (although certainly some are doing a really bad job of it). He doesn't have anything to say about the religions whose book says to harm or kill non-believers. Huh, wonder why.
3. As I've been around the world doing volunteer work, it's only Christians who ever have hospitals or well digging programs or clinics or whatever that they put on for the benefit of "the masses." Other groups only help thief own people, or believe that if something's wrong in your life, it was brought on you by your own actions or those of your parents/ancestors, so it would violate karma to help you.
If you say you follow the Bible completely and never EVER go against it than you are a lier because you broke countless rules in it.
Ever wish someone dead. Yeah you didn't real mean you wanted to kill them but according to the Bible you committed murder by just thinking about it.
Every see someone cute and think of all the naughty stuff you want to do with them? Yeah bible says you just committed rape. And if you are married you also cheated on your spouse.
I believe all God's and all religions only truely want is your devotion and to do what they feel is right. Which all usely say the same thing. Be kind to all. Help less fortunate. Thank your God for all he does and trust that what he does is meant to be good or bad.
It is like the black plague yes so many died but they found a way to cure it. No one dies from it anymore. We cured small pox and one day cancer will be cured and aids and so many other illnesses.
It's a terrible sacrifice but it helps us become stronger people. If we went back in time to any time before the 1900s we would risk getting the people of those time periods sick from germs we carry on our self that doesn't harm us. It be like when the white people met the Native Americans and the native Americans got sick.
Bad things have to happen for us as humans to improve and appreciate the good.
If nothing bad ever happen and no one ever died than we would be the most over run and boring planet.
LAWL
2. This guy finds a way to denigrate the beliefs of people whose book tends to encourage them to be better people even by worldly standards (although certainly some are doing a really bad job of it). He doesn't have anything to say about the religions whose book says to harm or kill non-believers. Huh, wonder why.
3. As I've been around the world doing volunteer work, it's only Christians who ever have hospitals or well digging programs or clinics or whatever that they put on for the benefit of "the masses." Other groups only help thief own people, or believe that if something's wrong in your life, it was brought on you by your own actions or those of your parents/ancestors, so it would violate karma to help you.