estimated timeline.
100 years ago- women are too dumb to vote.
300 years ago- blacks are property.
600 years ago- earth is flat
1000 years ago- sun rotates around the earth.
people that lived 2000 years ago would have known all of the four above facts to be true....back up the ignorance factor another 1000 years past that last one, and these are the guys writing the bible? why do we believe a single word of it?
and please don't say because it was inspired by god....who told you that? and please don't say the bible told you that. you have to see how circular that is?
2007-10-30 10:39:44 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oh man. let ignorance reign. i'm not saying the bible says any of this....the bible was written by men in a time that believed all of this. if a guy today that believed all of that wrote a book, would you buy it?
2007-10-30 10:49:31 · update #1
if you say you are open minded, are you?
2007-10-30 10:50:01 · update #2
Well, yes, not to put too fine a point on it. It was, at one point, an effective model for a society. Not moral, not enlightened, but effective. Trichinosis kills people? Well, God must say that eating pork is bad. It's kill or be killed out there? Well, God says you'd better be first, and kill all the chaps with the foreign last names, unless you can make them slaves. It worked.
2007-10-30 10:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you want to follow that line of reasoning...do you really think that a couple fisherman and farmers could come up with such poignant, timeless, wise words that it would endure through time without God's Hand on it?
The concepts that you speak of were not necessarily the beliefs of the people in the Bible. The concept of black slavery is not a global belief system except in the eyes of men who need to put someone under them to feel important. Paul was a dark skinned man, mistaken for an Ethiopian The people of the bible were not the same racist Southern Baptists who profess to be believers now. The BIble has passages where the earth is described as both round and 'hung' in the sky, and 'laid out like a scroll' which is discussed in science now as the String Theory.
The mistake you make is validating the Bible based on the men who God used. If you stop making excuses based on judgments of the people, you would be able to see God clearly. We dont esteem the writers, we esteem what they wrote because of who gave them the words to write it. God can use anyone to bring forth His Word.
2007-10-30 17:54:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Are you saying that the Bible says all those things? That is most certainly not the case, especially the first two I don't know where you came up with those. The Bible doesn't say the earth is flat or that the sun rotates around the earth, if you actually read the scriptures that supposedly support those things, you will find it's just a twisting of words to try and make the Bible say what someone wants it to say.
2007-10-30 17:47:31 · answer #3 · answered by melissa 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You assume too much. Aristotle knew that the Earth was round several centuries before Christ. Thomas Aquinas in th 13th century said that the world was round. There is evidence in ancient Egypt that they had fillings in teeth. I could go on and on about how unignorant ancient people are, but if you were familiar with some of things you were supposing I would not have to.
2007-10-30 17:52:00 · answer #4 · answered by mike t 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The original transcript was written in Aramaic and then Hebrew, Old English, ending in New English.
I would suspect that something gets lost in translation.
Maybe it would have been better if they kept the general ideas of the Bible.
2007-10-30 17:50:15 · answer #5 · answered by grumpyfiend 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yet somehow those "ignorant people" managed to accurately pre-announce the savior of the world, including exactly from where and when he would come, some 2000 years in advance, and then they described all of his most important personal characteristics, and prophetically predicted around 300 different and very significant events of his life, including his death and resurrection.
Evidently, those "ignorant people" were concerned with something quite different than you are.
It makes me wonder ... who is REALLY ignorant ... them ... or YOU?
2007-10-30 17:56:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I didn't know people actually wrote the Bible.
Of course some of it came from God, who told you it didn't?!
You should respect all religions, your rudeness has just showed your own ignorance.
2007-10-30 18:08:03 · answer #7 · answered by Bahar01 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it COULD have been written by more ignorant people.
You are a pompous, arrogant person, aren't you?
Now you're aying we are ignorant.
You believe as you wish. You accept your theories.
I believe in God. I believe Jesus died for me.
The difference is that I respect you and your theories. You don't respect mine.
You show no respect.
2007-10-30 17:48:20 · answer #8 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have seen some fundies that are way close(except that if you threw them in the middle of the desert they would probably die[so they might actually be more]).
2007-10-30 17:55:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Differant times....
2007-10-30 17:43:22 · answer #10 · answered by moe h 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋