This is a tread i have made to replace the discussion that was taking place in definative guide to life suggestions after complaints of tread hijacking. Please use this one if you have anything to comment on it. I will be contributing when i have time

Pez

OK, from what iv read you still seem to be making the assumption that beacuse part of the bible is true then all of it must be true. How is this a logical assumption to be making? Parts of the bible will be true because it is written by people and they would take real events as inspiration. Furthermore without knowledge of how these events occured they would try and come up with solutions for this. It is very easy to see how someone without a real understanding of how things occured could use an invented power called god to explain these events. This has been happening ever since the romans tried to explain why the sun moved across the sky and made a god that pulled it with his chariot.

What reasons do you have for believing this isnt how these ideas came about? Historical accuracy does not prove that the explanation for how these events occured is correct because people use real events as the basis for storys.

Yehrahs(or something like that) also claimed that the bible was perfectly correct as it was the word of god. You pointed to the idea of noahs ark and a "global flood" this idea is ludicrous. The amount of water it would take to cover the whole world in water deep enough to cover the highest mountains simply does not exist. Floods can take place on a local scale because there is a temporary excess of water in one place. This is compensated by a lack of water in another. Where does all the extra water come from? Taking the bible litterally like this simply does not work. If noah only took 2 of every animal then the inbreeding that would result would lead to servere genetic illnesses within a few generations.

To avoid this problem most cristians take the storys as metaphors. The idea of the bible being perfect is VERY easy to disprove and if that is the view you hold you are simply wrong.

The bible as a source of proof of god just doesnt work. It is too easy for it to just be a set of beliefs that someone has put down into writing as fact. Parts of it may be correct but this DOES NOT prove that all of it is correct.

Hmm, two posts, both from brand-new users, on an often volatile topic.

Troll, or not?

With that said, I do believe there is a GOD. Which is harder to believe: that life sprang up from a singularity by PURE chance, or that there is a 'GOD' who created everything?

I dont know why but it doesnt seem to be counting my posts

General doesn't count. It's in the FAQs. This thread is closed. We have a very active and polite religion thread in this very forum.