06-28-2007, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by webmasterchecks
it was written thousands of years ago, back in the time that we did not understand as much about the world, and gave people comfort, encouraged love thy neighbor philosophies, good conduct and tried to give reason and rational for natural occurrences (earthquakes, locusts, thunderstorms, plagues, volcanoes erupting, etc) at the time
but times have changed, we understand more about weather patterns, have generally accepted evolution as to where we came from, know more about medicine, planets/sun, and are much more aware of where we came from, whats around us, and how the world works vs before
its hard for me to understand where those people are coming from, but they are all around us
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The Bible was "written" with the pen of cynical and power hungry men back in a time of relatively high general ignorance and it's word enforced by the sword & empty promises and lies for many centuries untill it engrained itself so deeply into the culture of so many people that they allmost stopped questioning it's validety and it's mass acceptance meant it became "truth" in many peoples minds. Once there it built a very powerfull "weight of tradition" that although somewhat diminished in recent years is still a very powerfull force to be reconed with.
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