Here is where it gets tricky. In my beleifs you just have to follow the ten commandments to be close to God. That's it. All of the other things you mentioned are for story telling purposes to see how God's rules affected life back when.Bertster7 wrote:
Who's talking about the Ten Commandments?rawls2 wrote:
Help understand something though: what illogical concepts and doctrines do you speak of? If you look at the Ten Commandments there is nothing illogical about them. They are simple fundamental rules that should be followed. What's is there to struggle with? Maybe this doesn't belong in this thread but still.CameronPoe wrote:
It wasn't an attack on anyone else's beliefs but rather a statement of my situation, but I see what you're getting at. This thread is not the forum in which to open up a 'here's what I think', 'well, this is what I think' tit-for-tat postathon. I won't respond to further flame-bait (although I'm sorely tempted after seeing rawls response...).
Things like a man parting the Red Sea and then walking through it, or a man being crucified and then coming back to life. Those strike you as logical concepts?
Personally I see many events depicted in the Bible and other religious texts to be thoroughly illogical. If people started claiming that some sort of activist had been executed and then come back to life in a contemporary setting (or something different but equally improbable), I find it highly unlikely that the majority of religious people would accept this as fact because it is so far fetched.
Everything we know tells us these things cannot happen, why should the fact that some people claim they did happen thousands of years ago change that?
On top of the fact that I find the scenarios depicted in religious texts highly improbable, is the fact that almost all religions have borrowed much of their ethos, doctrines and so forth, from other pre-established religions.
Even simpler, God tells us to love him above everything else and to love others like we would like to be loved. Do those things and your good to go. Problem is you like to get stuck on the other things in the bible even though everything in there just leads to the two things mentioned.
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