Please enlighten me.
Fo sho, dirty. With pleasure
Is the Bible acceptable in discussions? Is it not ignorant to say, "well in the bible, it says" etc.
When
discussing the Bible, the Bible is acceptable in discussions. When discussing
science, it is not.
I like to argue with fundamentalist Christians about what the Bible
really means, so I can certainly accept the Bible as an explanation for an argument. Which is actually kinda ironic because if we are interpreting it then it isn't being taken literally, but that is another topic.
From my point of view, in the Bible, having been translated into over 2300 languages and dialects, and being quite an ancient text written and rewritten by, if I may, primitives, things can become mixed up.
I definitely understand that point, but I also understand that
if God wanted His message to be accurately translated, then it is perfectly in His capability to make that happen. Do you know what I mean?
Add to that nothing in the Bible is proven to be true.
Do you think it is possible for truths to remain unproven? I do.*
I therefore have difficulty seeing how anything related to the texts from the Bible are at all reliable sources of information.
If God is capable of preventing mix-ups, and not all truths are proven, then the Bible could
easily be The Truth™. But not
literally, which I don't subscribe too.
The Bible describes all kinds of
truths, IMHO, but I am capable of seeing my bias towards the Bible being truthful... ya know, being Catholic and all.
*WRT truths being unproven: I was raised Catholic and educated in the
sciences. I still find Science's
failure to
recognize things that I find to be The Truth™ as a reason to accept extra-scientific explanations for the Truth.
I just don't find
Science to be the authority on what is truth, IMH(ysa)O.
However, if the Bible says something that experience claims otherwise, I am not going to lie to myself to maintain validity in the Bible. Kinda like I'm not going to lie to myself to maintain validity in Science. Get it?
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Science has failed our world.
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
-System of a Down, "Science"
He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Avenged Sevenfold, "Bat Country"