Re: The Truth:

>It appeared because there was money to be made from it.
>It appeared because leaders always need something more to control
>people.

B.S.

> technically far surpassed by more modern methods.

B.S. (Bible Code)

As far as the rest of what you wrote that i didn't read - B.S. B.S.
B.S. - please let me know if i missed something

On Feb 6, 10:30 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 3:28 pm, Wes <wesleykell...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think we are friendly on another thread, this is neat.
>
> I don't think so unless you go by another handle?
>
> > Polystrate
> > fossils throw a severe wrench into the common understanding of
> > evolution and lend much needed credibility to the question of
> > religion. to be more specific, my question to u and anyone else is
> > this,
>
> It's been proven more than once in courts of law (some presided over
> by Conservative judges)
> that creationism (or it's cousin Intelligent Design) as currently
> defined is not demonstrable.
> Demonstrable = fact.
>
> > The Bible claims to have been written because Jesus actually
> > existed and was very much like what the bible says about him.
>
> Lots of religious books make lots of religious claims. Some true, some
> not true.
> The Bible is no different than all the others written.
>
> > My question is what would you have me believe these two things are
> > true or do you have another explaination, because the Bible didn't
> > just appear for no reason.
>
> It appeared because multiple people wrote and contributed to it after
> much thought and deliberation about what it should and should not
> contain over hundreds of years.
> It appeared out of a political movement as much as a religious one of
> the time.
> It appeared because there was money to be made from it.
> It appeared because leaders always need something more to control
> people.
> It appeared because people needed comfort to live and die in a world
> that was full of mistreatment, death, disease, suffering, unfairness,
> cruelty and hate. Yet at the same time be forgiven for committing the
> very sins they seek comfort from.
>
> The reasons are many, but that still doesn't make it the truth.
> What it does make it is a great literary work of art, that has been
> technically far surpassed by more modern methods.
>
> Yeah if were to take all the great authors (Shakespere, Poe, Whitman,
> Hemingway, Dante, Faulkner, Kafka, Shaw, Swift, Heinlein, Eliot,
> Twain, Shelly, Orwell, Dickens...etc. etc. etc.  and have them all
> concentrate on one story through dogma... it would be beyond
> amazing... but it wouldn't mean it's any truer.
>
> The various books of the Bible were the work of many persons over many
> centuries.
> Very few of them are the work of the individuals whose names have been
> attached to them by tradition
> (the major exception being a number of the letters of Paul in the New
> Testament),
> and the majority have been heavily edited to the point where their
> original form and history of composition are today uncertain.
>
> They were edited in order to make them better... not that that makes
> any difference to a believer, nothing would; which means it's not just
> faith in their mind, that it's a fact... which is wrong and has been
> proven wrong multiple times.

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