Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

Sithdarth · 07-05-2007, 09:04 PM

I saw it about 3-4 months ago on the History channel. I haven't really checked up on it since then so anything could have happened.

Though that was only partially my point. Aside from the dead sea scrolls we know for a fact that a lot of gospels that were just as historically provable as the ones chosen were excluded from the Bible. Now you can go around believing the word of god lead them to do that but I find that awfully convenient that everything excluded would have weakened or completely destroyed the power of the clergy. I also find it convenient that the woman closest to Jesus, aside from his mother, suddenly became a whore with absolutely no proof of it.

I just find absolutely no reason to believe the Bible represents the true teachings of Jesus, assuming he even existed. In fact the whole book is meaningless anyway according to you since you can completely ignore it and believe what you want as long as in the end you acknowledge god as the true god and Jesus as your savior.

Actually now that I reread that last sentence that is probably damn near the only thing the Bible actually got right about early Christianity and that itself is covered under layers of nearly useless crud.

07-05-2007, 09:04 PM	#11
Sithdarth Friendly Neighborhood Quantum Hobo Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Outside the M-brane look'n in Posts: 5,403	I saw it about 3-4 months ago on the History channel. I haven't really checked up on it since then so anything could have happened. Though that was only partially my point. Aside from the dead sea scrolls we know for a fact that a lot of gospels that were just as historically provable as the ones chosen were excluded from the Bible. Now you can go around believing the word of god lead them to do that but I find that awfully convenient that everything excluded would have weakened or completely destroyed the power of the clergy. I also find it convenient that the woman closest to Jesus, aside from his mother, suddenly became a whore with absolutely no proof of it. I just find absolutely no reason to believe the Bible represents the true teachings of Jesus, assuming he even existed. In fact the whole book is meaningless anyway according to you since you can completely ignore it and believe what you want as long as in the end you acknowledge god as the true god and Jesus as your savior. Actually now that I reread that last sentence that is probably damn near the only thing the Bible actually got right about early Christianity and that itself is covered under layers of nearly useless crud.