For instance,
The belief that man could fly was considered witchery, the idea the world was anything but flat was considered blasphemy, science of any kind was more often then not considered heresy and/or witchery, and believing in anything that is not based on strict doctrine was heresy.
Today, man can fly.Today, we have images of the Earth that prove it is round.Today, science has extended our lives, allowed us to solve most crimes, see things that were never thought possible to see, and do things that only existed in the imagination of our predecessors.Today, many doctrines are interpreted differently and some doctrines have even been dismissed.
If God is infallible then the way God was worshipped hundreds of and even thousands of years ago when the belief in God started must also be infallible.Ask anyone who lived in the fourteenth century if what we have today is sinful and he would call you a demon.
Some would say those things aren't in the Bible.Tell that to history.
2006-10-21 23:34:15 · 15 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I just love how people say "it doesn't say that in the Bible.It say that the world is round in chapter yadda yadda yadda.Hey, don't tell me that.Tell the founders and followers of your religion that lived long before you ever knew different.
2006-10-21 23:46:21 · update #1
Also, the only point where I mentioned the Bible was at the end of my details because I knew that many answers would try and quote it.This isn't about what is in the Bible.This is about how religion has changed so radically in ideas that it calls into question if that religion and the god it's believes in is really infalliable since every point in history seems to change the rules and ideas worship and sin.
2006-10-21 23:55:51 · update #2
Because no fixed morality can apply to all situations. Religion, like society, evolves over time. Religions try to monopolize the idea of morality and attempt to claim authorship of it. However, morality is merely a set of rules about what we think is right and wrong. Everybody has their own morality, which is shaped by instinct, family, friends, society, and the daily experience of our lives.
There are no gods telling anybody what we should or should not do. And if you honestly look at the morality offered by most religions, it's a mixed bag. Some of their rules of morality are generally decent and some are silly. Most are outdated.
Instead, think for yourself. You have a brain. You can figure out the pros and cons of anything you do. And it is rarely black and white. Most actions are neither just god or just bad, and they aren't the same for every situation. That's just obvious if you think about it.
2006-10-21 23:35:38 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We fly today because as men grew in their intelligence and had a better understanding of things they discovered that they could do these things and the superstitious thoughts gave way to enlightened thoughts. The world appeared to them to be flat because the charted lands were depicted on a flat paper with the boundaries being the places that they had been able to get to. Finally one of them got brave enough to go a little past the fartherest point and guess what there was more out there than they thought. It's called discovery, they have a whole television channel devoted to it now!!! As for infallibility, read the first few chapters of the Bible, man, not God is infallible. Nice try.
2006-10-21 23:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bible is not the religious source for the whole world. Billions of people believe in something other than the bible or nothing at all.All the people living together today would be breaking the law just 50 years ago. All the gays that have come out would be beheaded 200 years ago.People that believe in scientology would be burned at the stake 400 years ago.
2006-10-21 23:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by super stud 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Doctrine passed down by the Patriarchs, which were human men, were falliable. It is alleged God was speaking through them when they wrote the Bible and they claimed God is infalliable. So their logic was this - "I received a message from my almighty infalliable God, so all that I write, ergo, must also be infalliable". Go figure. They could have very well made the Bible up, then attributed their writings to the word of "God".
2006-10-21 23:42:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Show me one place in the bible where God said that flying was evil?
Man corrupts the bible, not God. Man makes the problems, not God.
God gives the law. Man interprets it, sometimes with devastating results. Put your trust in no man.
Well apparently you do not want to have an open discussion about a subject you brought up. Show me the place in the bible where it says that flying was evil? You can't. Do you want to know why? Because it isn't there.
Why do we have to answer for the mistakes made by people long before we were born? why are you putting the blame on people of today that are not responsible for the mistakes of yesterday?
Everyone makes mistakes. Every culture, religion, country, tribe, people , or any person is going to make mistakes. have you ever made one?
Until you can keep this an open discussion where you really want to learn something instead of attacking people for giving you an answer then you are misleading yourself.
2006-10-21 23:37:26 · answer #5 · answered by RIDLEY 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you are going to ask about God then do not watch what people do. There is no mention of flying in scripture. The Bible if fact indicates the world is spherical. Scripture even makes referance to space travel (nests in the stars)
Doctrine is of man scripture is God breathed.
Get a copy of the Bible and read it so you do not write such foolishness
Most crimes are white colar and go unprosecuted, and another large number are commited by politicians
what are you 12
2006-10-21 23:41:03 · answer #6 · answered by ronnysox60 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Where is the source that defines God as being infallible?
God is the name we give to the source of all creation. We don't have the capacity to be able to define this entity. Its like an earthworm trying to define the human brain and its dimensions and capacities. We can live, feel, wonder, be enthralled and begin to think what it takes to be a part of such a supreme being by contemplating the diversity and mystic wonder of the creation - every tiny thing in this universe - from the indivisible minute particle to the huge galaxies, and the countless beings, forces, physics, mathematics and a zillion other laws that make it work. We think nothing of squishing a spider that dares to enter our domicile. Do we stop to think what it takes to create such a thing? With all our advanced systems, can we create and sustain such a being ourselves? God is the name we give to the force that has been able to create and maintain all things we see and can't see. God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. If things happen in the world that we consider sinful, they are part of a bigger plan. If bad things are happening , for example polar bears drowning in a melting arctic ocean that has been ok for billions of years, things are happening that are so bad for this planet and so many of its habitat that have survived trillions of years, it is the direct result of bad choices we the current inhabitants have made, for selfish and greedy reasons. Easy to blame the organization that starts and tries to run an establishment, do we stop to think and feel if we can correct anything ourselves than cooly expect the head to be perfect and magically correct it all, if the tiniest thing is not to our satisfaction? Our definition of God being infallible came from our own instinct to be perfect and our own expectation to have everything work perfectly in spite of our mistakes. We would consider God perfect if he had made Chocolate and potato chips healthy for the body and Broccoli and Brussel Sprouts bad for us to eat :). I think he made it the exactly opposite way to make a point! The hard and difficult paths lead to long lasting good effects. It disciplines the mind and body to be able to attain difficult goals. Easy come easy go, we won't care about things we receive easily.
God did give us the drive to try to be good, perfect, its engineered into the brain, so is the need to seek to know him. Why do we spend so much time and money in orgs like Nasa, trying to probe into the far beyond?
We strive to be perfect and we strive to make the entity we worship as being perfect. That is why he was defined as infallible I suppose? I don't think we have the capacity to even begin to define the Creator.
We idolize and worship him instead as the best we can hope to be. So essentially God is our mind's representation of the perfect human being. That he is not! Far superior. Thanks for listening.
2006-10-21 23:56:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evey read about the flying chariots in the Bible, or the nuclear bomb? There are verses that pretty well describe them in scripture, When most of this world is destroyed it says that mens eyes and tongues will melt in their sockets, sound a little nuclear to you?
2006-10-22 00:16:30 · answer #8 · answered by judy_derr38565 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please do NOT confuse what God has written in his book, with men who have either made very bad judgements, or abused their posistions of power in Gods name with the truth and the facts.
Gallio was right- the sun was indeed the center of the universe as they knew it in 1611. He spent the next 50 years under house arrest. This was MANS fault (in this case, the Pope) abusing his position of power.
Ditto for Hitler.
Ditto for both George Bush, Senior and George Bush, Jr on their political abuses of the american people.
2006-10-21 23:50:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Over time man is at a loss
Except those who do good deeds and are full of faith and who profess the truth and establish prayer and persevere in patience.
Allah knows best.
Peace and Blessings,
Salim
2006-10-21 23:39:03 · answer #10 · answered by إمام سليم چشتي 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋