by Lethargio

Created on: October 27, 2008

One cannot be too critical when writing about why information contained in the bible is mostly ficticious. The first place to begin when analysing a religious document is the limits of physics; did sampson kill a couple of thousand people with a donkey jaw-bone? impossible, unless of course he did it over the course of a few weeks and while they were in comas. Was the world created in 6 days? seeing as how genesis got things wrong (it states that light was created before the sun and stars, and plants before the sun, which leaves no room for photosynthesis which is needed to keep plants alive...). Its easy, perhaps too easy to scuple the bible until it withers and dies beneath you, but people without religious knowledge always forget one thing: faith. Noah built his ark on faith alone, and Isaac went to kill his son due to his faith in his Gods orders, so we need no introduction as to how powerfull faith is despite simple reasoning.

Faith, despite being off topic here, is to be included to stop this debate becoming a load of Dawkins disciples yelling blindly on one side and dogmatic theists on the other. The Jehova's Witnesses believe that God intervened with human affairs in earlier days and up until christs death, but that "He" resided in heaven after that, and this is one argument a theist may use to shield their handed down wisdom. But thsi is too capricious of any deity which is said to be super-natural: in other words, the actions of God in the bible are human, all too human. The bet with the devil in the book of Job, the flooding and murdering of his creation when it does not live up to his expectations (so much for "intelligent design") or the crafty and insidious leading-on of Isaac to kill his son. These actions would not lead one to picture a god performing them but a powerful and perhaps naive king. Faith however leads the religious to contend that the nature of God is not known so how can we judge him? how can we say when or what he will do and for what reasons? by a combination of his own rules and what we see and learn from the world around us. We know that the world is not 6000 years old, that Adam and Eve were not the first man and woman, and that the world was not created in six days or that a man can pull down a temple with his care hands. A look into mythology as a whole can show that beliefs and stories like these are abundant.

Prometheus was condemned to have his liver eaten by an eagle every day, and at night his liver would grow back. It

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