The contemporary understanding of said book is certainly fiction. The God of the Bible is a singular entity that comes from outside our universe who left us a set of texts that explain where we came from and where we are going in summation form. The bulk of the book is explaining why the path is as bumpy as it is. The Bible itself advises you to reject it if you find it conflicts with itself or you find other reasons to doubt it as being written by one 'person' who is able to effect the words into reality based on a very tight time-line. That it is a book of literals rather than figmentations is the first stumbling block He put in there to weed out the ones the book reserves for gathering after reality has taken hold of 'things'.
One of the first lessons the Bible teaches is that if confusion enters the picture when you are reading then you should find an easier subject to read about. In the Bible it would be the various parables in the NT. If that ever actually got accomplished the next part would be looking for parables in the OT as you do want the myth put into a different pile than the reality verses.
Take any subject that is of similar size and you have to use the same study method for both. Some approaches might even be more effective than others in a way that makes it's application universal. For instance, the therm 'grace' in the NT has a limited number of references so a hour spent reading those verses and the the passages they come from is going to allow you to speak up when grace becomes the topic. The learning part that the Bible includes is that in the passages you read there will be something that would allow the reader to keep looking up 'topics' and later rather than sooner all that reading will begin to pay off as reading a new passage will result in you being able to connect the various references to your intake of knowledge is faster in the end and slower at the beginning.
The other areas in the mechanical world that are at all complex can be studied faster but not as through if you use the index in the back rather than the table at the front of the book.
As far as I am aware Science still has to do some magic to get the big bang happening, the Bible has the universe and earth existing at the end of day 1 so there is a period that must be called the beginning of day 1 which is when material started being gathered to create the reality we can see around us.
One of the first lessons the Bible teaches is that if confusion enters the picture when you are reading then you should find an easier subject to read about. In the Bible it would be the various parables in the NT. If that ever actually got accomplished the next part would be looking for parables in the OT as you do want the myth put into a different pile than the reality verses.
Take any subject that is of similar size and you have to use the same study method for both. Some approaches might even be more effective than others in a way that makes it's application universal. For instance, the therm 'grace' in the NT has a limited number of references so a hour spent reading those verses and the the passages they come from is going to allow you to speak up when grace becomes the topic. The learning part that the Bible includes is that in the passages you read there will be something that would allow the reader to keep looking up 'topics' and later rather than sooner all that reading will begin to pay off as reading a new passage will result in you being able to connect the various references to your intake of knowledge is faster in the end and slower at the beginning.
The other areas in the mechanical world that are at all complex can be studied faster but not as through if you use the index in the back rather than the table at the front of the book.
As far as I am aware Science still has to do some magic to get the big bang happening, the Bible has the universe and earth existing at the end of day 1 so there is a period that must be called the beginning of day 1 which is when material started being gathered to create the reality we can see around us.
Well my little troll, time to see how you are doing. Not nice to leave a new troll dangling in the breeze too long. You get any emotions that that you are out of the troll-closet and are making comments quite freely? Sometimes when you troll somebody and they just ignore you. That gives a troll some issues to deal with, like should I use caps now? Stay tuned.Do with that advice what you will.![]()
Would the unbolded part not include some words that a troll would use? For the bolded part I can see you actually sitting up in your chair a little bit just at the prospect of this happening. Is that called being 'attracted to the dark side?' Now clean-up your keyboard.What posts have you been reading? 8O
He's a bigot, a chauvinist pig and he whines a lot. And I don't throw the chauvinist label around lightly.
You should. Go on, do it!![]()