Do you think it would be a lot better if that's gonna be the case? Or worst?
2006-09-06 13:58:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Your question is not confusing but confused.... To perceive truth look within, not to a book.
2006-09-06 14:04:00 · answer #1 · answered by unseen_force_22 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion it might be easier to know truth if we were without the bible or koran. If one were to read the bible and take it literally then you would have a decent book on the history of a certain people. But, alas! Mankind has taken such books and turned them into a myriad of religions for the sole purpose of control.
2006-09-06 22:05:31 · answer #2 · answered by Ahmad H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That makes the assumption that the bible and/or the koran are true. I can't say they are. Personally I think the world would be a better place if organized religion had never been invented
2006-09-06 21:10:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do the Bible and the Koran have to do with the objective sense of truth?
There are plenty of countries who don't prescribe to either who are not going to hell in a hand basket
2006-09-06 21:03:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, these books are not divine revelations, but writings of men encoding many of the taboos already accepted by all cultures since the most primitive traveling bands. We simply prohibit that which we don't want done to us. Was a divine being really required to tell us we don't want to be robbed or murdered? Was murder considered socially accepted before Moses came down from the mountain? If there weren't already man-made laws against murder, then why did Moses attempt to conceal the murder he committed in anger? The Egyptians, who had no holy book of the one true god, but already had laws against murder before Moses descended from Horeb.
These taboos are developed in community with each other and are common sense. As a child when another thicld struck you or took your toy, did you need a god to tell you it was unpleasant and you wanted it stopped? Of course not. No god was required.
As for rituals, all religions have them. If only one is true and all others false, they nonetheless have developed most of the same precepts and forms on their own. Why? Because we are all people with common needs and fears. We invent gods to give unimpeachable authority to our laws and taboos, but the taboos are entirely derived from human social learning, not revelation.
So to ask if the holy books are necessary for the understanding of truth is the wrong question. The right one is, "If it really is truth, why do men find it necessary to invent 'holy books to convince others the truth is true? If it is true, does it require the say so of a god?'" I think the reality is if I say, the other person is likely to say "What is that to me?" But if I say "God says so" it is not so easily dismissed.
2006-09-06 21:11:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says either of them is the truth? I don't think any mortal has ever understood "the truth" and I don't think anyone will ever understand it. But without religion, many people have no moral code to go by. The world would be complete chaos (think of how many people are good only because of their religion).
2006-09-06 21:08:53 · answer #6 · answered by miamiman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that you can see the Lord at work around you. Even if we did not have the Bible it would be very apparent to us that there is a Creator that is here and Loves us.
2006-09-06 21:14:05 · answer #7 · answered by dillonsdream 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in the biblie it states each person is to interpret it the way they interpret it if you actually read the bible and the koran they are similar i think it's preachers that we need to do away with because they are the ones telling us to interpret it the way they do and that's not the way it should be not if you believe what the bible says
2006-09-06 21:03:43 · answer #8 · answered by brr4226 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there are some basic human elements that would overtly come out, but for the most part, the moral fiber of a society is directly related to their religious beliefs....
2006-09-06 21:02:38 · answer #9 · answered by O Jam 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Bible is necessarily to reveal some things about God and salvation you would not know elsewhere
I do not agree with alot of the Koran and do not believe it is inspired
2006-09-06 21:01:50 · answer #10 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋