The bible was written by man, edited by man and man made addictions to the bible over hundreds and thousands of years.

Just like how chinese whispers works- over many hundreds of generations even a fairy tale can become a bible.

Just one of my crazy ideas.

Fairy Tales and Fables are all famous for teaching great lessons on life. Just one of my crazy ideas.

People actually have real scholary knowledge about the bible, it pisses me off when people throw out questions like 'wOt if Deh bibble woz a prank or sumfiN?! or if some guy woz drunk n rote it?!1'. The bible is a collection of many different books thats what the word 'bible' means its greek meaning a collection of many books. It started out with a religious community that stemmed from a bedouin tribe from iraq, who wrote about the head of the tribe called abraham that started a beleif in one god, where the beleif or tradition is passed on to the children through the mother thus creating the religioius community or nation based in the beleif in god. From there it kind of worked its way back to describe the lengthy and boring pre-history of abraham and his tribe, right back to a story attempting to explain the beginning of the world which was inspired by the creation tales of other people living in iraq at the time.

Well, considering how the Bible is presented as an accurate historical document, the kidiot reactions are justified.

Sure, there is scholarly value in the monotheistic interpretation of egyptian, greek and babylonian myths by semitic tribes. That's all its role should be today.

Thank you for contributing your very original and insightful post.

Cheers,

Lost

As anti-religion as I am,

I have to point out that it

didn't all start from fairy tales.

There's real places and people

that shit comes from originally.

Even Hercules was probably a real guy.

The old testament is kinda violent for a fairy tale.



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If the Bible is just a fairy tale, I'd love to meet the mind behind the allegory, because it's fucking amazing.

Well, most people know the bible is just a collection of stories of which to learn from and base your life on morally. It's not to be taken literally.

quote:Originally posted by shuu:

People actually have real scholary knowledge about the bible, it pisses me off when people throw out questions like 'wOt if Deh bibble woz a prank or sumfiN?! or if some guy woz drunk n rote it?!1'. The bible is a collection of many different books thats what the word 'bible' means its greek meaning a collection of many books. It started out with a religious community that stemmed from a bedouin tribe from iraq, who wrote about the head of the tribe called abraham that started a beleif in one god, where the beleif or tradition is passed on to the children through the mother thus creating the religioius community or nation based in the beleif in god. From there it kind of worked its way back to describe the lengthy and boring pre-history of abraham and his tribe, right back to a story attempting to explain the beginning of the world which was inspired by the creation tales of other people living in iraq at the time.

It's because of*idiotic posts like these that I continue to read the material in the forum. Go ahead shuu, say what you will about people who use their brains instead of blind faith, your words amuse me. They make me giggle.

You've completely overlooked the fact that the actual history of the bible was still a fairy tale, what you've said doesn't change that. You just gave us some detail on how the fairy tale originated.



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quote:Originally posted by ShouldTrip:

Well, most people know the bible is just a collection of stories of which to learn from and base your life on morally. It's not to be taken literally.

Very true. Then again, there is no expression on Earth that is literal of what it's expressing. 'Lost in translation': True between languages; true between spirit and thought, thought and heart, heart and actions. We all fail to express with accuracy. With our miscommunication: all the argument in existence, all the misunderstanding, all the pain and fighting. We all know that we don't know, yet saying 'we don't know' doesn't quite express the depth of ignorance in our heart. Our emotions fail to express the ignorance within our minds. Our thoughts fail to express the ignorance in our soul. And our soul fails to express the ignorance of the eternal. So our life in its totality becomes our most accurate expression - we make mistakes and constantly hurt ourselves and others to show ourselves and others just how little we really know. And when we live as though we don't know, we seem to show mercy and empathy for the 'struggle to know' that others continue into.

Information can be gathered with ease; yet information changes as we figure more out about the reactive nature of existence. We will never have knowledge; we will never have science - but we can persue information in the hopes of finding knowledge, and that is what Science is.

Religion and spirituality is the pursuit of knowledge through faith...also just as useless.

Knowledge is beyond human grasps; information and faith are all we have in this life.

quote:Originally posted by Hexadecimal:

Then again, there is no expression on Earth that is literal of what it's expressing. 'Lost in translation': True between languages; true between spirit and thought, thought and heart, heart and actions. We all fail to express with accuracy. With our miscommunication: all the argument in existence, all the misunderstanding, all the pain and fighting. We all know that we don't know, yet saying 'we don't know' doesn't quite express the depth of ignorance in our heart. Our emotions fail to express the ignorance within our minds. Our thoughts fail to express the ignorance in our soul. And our soul fails to express the ignorance of the eternal. So our life in its totality becomes our most accurate expression - we make mistakes and constantly hurt ourselves and others to show ourselves and others just how little we really know. And when we live as though we don't know, we seem to show mercy and empathy for the 'struggle to know' that others continue into.

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I wonder to what degree this was true between the time of the Fall and the Tower of Babel.

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Nice to see you back Hex,

johnny