If we were using 2000 year old technology today, wouldn't it be the Dark Ages all over again? So why are we using 2000 year old text for our spirtual lives?
2006-07-18 07:40:22 · 25 answers · asked by TommyTrouble 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think "Julia" needs to start her own country. The Country of Religious Zealots. Who's up for moving there?
2006-07-18 11:20:18 · update #1
It sure would simplify Astronomy.
2006-07-18 07:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by Kenny ♣ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean? The bible as a collection is only (2006 - 325) 1681 years old, not 2000!
And the Dark Ages?!? Ha. The bible was written WAY before then. Imperial Rome was the height of the Iron Age.
2006-07-18 14:45:52 · answer #2 · answered by mb5_ca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The larger of the two "halves" of the Bible, the Old Testament, is a lot older than 2,000 years.
What difference does it make how old a book is?
Besides, it's a moot point anyway because, unless it's a religious school, Bibles have been all but banned from schools in the USA these days.
What else do we expect, in a country where kids can get sent to the principal's office for wearing a crucifix necklace or saying "God bless you" if another kid sneezes?
2006-07-18 14:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the morals in the Bible, a MUCH BETTER PLACE.
Look at America's schools now compared to then:
1950 #1 problem in school - chewing gum in class
2000 #1 problem in school - weapons in class
Does this bother anyone where America is heading now that a "2000 year old book" has been dismissed from schools?
America is heading down the crapper's swiral ever since the Bible and God were removed from school and the government.
2006-07-18 14:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by n9wff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually probably not, because the ancient Greeks were remarkably advanced for their time (that is our view of it anyway). They had automatic doors, steam engines (primitive compared to a locomotive engine), and many other remarkable inventions. Now granted most of these were seen as nothing more than trinkets or wonders to be hold with no real useful application at the time, but most of the technology they had at the time was lost with the records of the Great Library in Alexandria Egypt, and the early Christian Church's oppression of the knowledge of the pre-Christian cultures of Egypt, Greece, and other Mediterranean cultures beacuse they thought it was the work of 'The Devil'.
24 y.o. Pagan College Student
2006-07-18 14:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by Phoenix Summersun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look, they use very modern books in school and the kids are still illiterate.
I'll be happen if Johnny could read any book - the bible or Jack and Jill, he can't read at all.
Not only that, he gets on Y!A and writes the most grammatically incorrect questions, he doesn't know how to spell or follow the syntax of the language he speaks everyday.
2006-07-18 14:45:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does this mean that you reject the beauty, truth, and helpfulness of all the ancient classics too?
Parts of the Bible are more than 2000 years old, by the way. Don't you think that their timeless popularity merits a little literary respect?
I'd read any God-breathed book no matter how long ago it was written.
2006-07-18 14:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parts of the Bible are over 5,000 years old.
The wisdon contained within this is priceless. Really every "Sin" or "Vice" or "Addiction" that man could ever come up with is already in the Bible warning us not to be fools, but to be wise and avoid the heartbreak and drama.
Your analogy to technology is like saying, why don't we just kill every person over the age of 12 years old ... Sure the youth have the new ways of doing stuff, but the old people still have the life experience and real ways to solve it instead of imaginary binary codes of "zero's" and "one's".
2006-07-18 14:43:11 · answer #8 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please consider your question more in depth before you ask it. It is this very fact that actually adds to the Bible's credibility. God's promise to be an unchanging God could not be held true if His Word changed. How amazing to think that there is no book more attacked and no book that has had so many attempts at complete destruction, yet it is still alive in culture today. God promised He would preserve His Word. It is yet another indicator that what He has said is more than a myth. It is one of the attributes I love most about my GOD. His faithfulness and integrity NEVER CHANGES so it is an obvious conclusion that neither does His Word.
2006-07-18 14:51:03 · answer #9 · answered by italylover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the schools I worked in threw out books because they were "old". I guess that supervisor didn't like Shakespeare or Dickens either.
I agree with your point. The Book's specifics are geared for a nomadic people or those who were under the control of the Romans.
Times have changed... I'll expect you'll get some "interesting" responses.
2006-07-18 14:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by lrad1952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible can be thought of a reference book, like the writings of DaVinci, Newton, Einstein and others.
If one thinks in those terms, it is an excellent read to gain some understanding of the thinking at the time the Bible was written.
2006-07-18 14:46:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋