Blues Man
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I also find it interesting that a god incarnate that was capable of waking the dead, walking on water, healing the infirm etc couldn't write his own scripture.You are drawing closer to my point which is that the original authors told stories. Orally. People heard these stories and learned something from them. They taught lessons that pertained to them and the cultures and societies in which they lived. It spoke about their lives, and life lessons that are still applicable today.
Noah's Ark teaches a beautiful lesson, and all many see today is the setting only--a flood that killed BABIES! A flood that in the original language has the flood covering the ground/earth/dirt that many today think all believers teach that the flood covered the planet/Earth. And great arguments occur over that. The original teaching--for some--has been lost.
I can understand why people who see the Bible in such a light think that everyone sees it in the same light and has been brainwashed And guess what--both fundamentalist believers and non-believers alike continue to spew this misinformation. Fundamentalists and non-believers are more alike than either would ever claim. Most believers--more than seventy-five percent us--do not take every modern English word in the Bible as literal. The Bible is not there to teach us science, but a philosophy, a way of living. Further, the Bible is not so much about God as it is about us (mankind).
Religion is nothing but a branch of philosophy and ethics.
The only thing different is that religion promises rewards where philosophy doesn't