Or would you just be bored to death and a waste of space on the Earth?
2006-09-29 10:06:38 · 13 answers · asked by conundrum 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I encourage you to write out your own elaborate theories on what would happen.
2006-09-29 10:18:44 · update #1
Don't worry about offending me, I'm not Catholic. I just went to a Catholic hell hole school where they pumped the fear of god into us and tried to take all the fun out of life.
2006-10-01 14:53:24 · update #2
You would be arrested almost immediately. The Bible is a lot like the Grimm’s Fairy Tales or Aesop’s Fables - they are stories with morals to live by. Good grief, if you were crazy enough to read that thing literally you would be able to sell your daughter into slavery (Exodus 21:7), own slaves (Lev. 25:44), have no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanness (Lev.15:19-24), and kill anyone who works on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2). And then you have to believe in talking donkeys, bushes, world-covering floods, the fact that the world was created in 6 days….
…no. No fool on this earth could be possible believe the Bible literally without going insane or being locked up.
The Bible is a good book of ideas, ethics, and thoughts on how to live a good life. Read it as if it were a book of morals written a couple thousand years ago (so it’s a little outdated) and you’ll be just fine. OR just be a good person and I’m sure whatever higher being you believe in at the time of your passing will let you into whatever it is that you think the afterlife holds.
2006-09-29 10:14:07 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Brian 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word "interpreted" means different things to different religions. I don't think there is not anyone that could follow the Bible word for word except maybe Jesus Christ. i heard on TV the other night that Moses married a black women. I did not know that and will still look it up. All of the Old Testament, and even the knew was in a region where most were not white. I wonder if Christ knew about the USA. Probably nothing was here in human life form anyway. Sorry I can't get into this. Rody....
2006-09-29 17:18:01 · answer #2 · answered by virginiamayoaunt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally would be miserable if I tried to do it, and I see other people who try it and are miserable. I don't know anyone who follows it word-for-word. They just pretend to do it. My relatives use the Bible to criticize other people but ignore parts that forbid what they do. Funndamentalists say every word in the Bible is literally true, but if I point out a contradiction or scientific error to one, he offers an overly-contrived excuse that denies the Bible is literally true, so I doubt that there are any real fundamentalists.
2006-09-29 19:35:36 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not insulting your religion, but fundamentalism does not make any sense to me. I mean, if you look at the meaning of most of the stuff the bible says, it makes more sense.
For example, the creation story just tells us that God exists and made everything. And that original sin has made us who we are, sinners. It does not tell us that God is going to take us to a desert to live the rest of our lives. The person who wrote Genisis does not CARE about the other people God did not mention creating. He just cares about point A to point B.
That makes better sense to me than looking at the bible literally.. So my answer is no.
2006-09-30 01:24:11 · answer #4 · answered by figg7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'd be extremely unsatisfied with how I've been living my life, all the repressed feelings I would have. I'd walk around the world thinking myself better than everyone. People that weren't like me would scare me. I'd bomb abortion clinics because that's justified in the bible. I'd start wars. I'd banish all the gays to some other country and imprison those not like me in some kind of camp to remove them from the streets.
In short, I would be very unhappy at what the bible made me do.
2006-09-29 17:53:34 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are getting lost in the details. What is the basic message of the bible?
How did Jesus act when he protected the prostitute who was going to be stoned as per the bible?
What sort of man was David who God loved? He lived life fully!
What about the parable of the talents, that tells you to find your destiny and live it fully? Are you reaching your potential in life?
A lot of the bible is historical and not prescriptive. It seems you are looking for faults instead of trying to understand it.
2006-10-02 11:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Cogito Sum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be too full of your own delusions to be happy or bored. You would say things that made no possible sense till even you wouldn't listen to you.
2006-09-29 17:15:58 · answer #7 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be a love slave confined to a small room in the back section of the Falwell compound.
2006-09-29 17:14:17 · answer #8 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you will not get bored, but you would have to eat flesh and drink blood, that would get you in trouble, and if you do suffer personality disorder that get pleasure from canibalism you would be a happy person
2006-09-29 17:33:55 · answer #9 · answered by jingleh4m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very simple:
you would only be happy if you believed in it absolutely, no matter what happens.
If doubt creeps in...
2006-09-29 17:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by jarizza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋