It’s already logically consistent, from my perspective – though I’ll admit the experiment is impossible to falsify, being conducted in an uncontrolled environment and all.
But at least my logic is more consistent than most Christians. Especially those who believe in “literal interpretation” of the Bible – how do they account for all the major discrepancies in the Gospels? Why does Matthew trace Jesus’s lineage via Solomon, while Luke says he was descended from Nathan? Did God change history between the time Matthew & Luke were written? According to Christian logic, he bloody well could have, if he wanted to.
And the literal interpretations aren’t even consistent. They interpret the word “day” in Genesis ch.1 as a period of 24 hours, no more no less, ignoring all other possible definitions of the Hebrew word which the English “day” is derived from. And yet, when Jesus says he will return “before the current generation has passed,” Christians come up with all sorts of crazy explanations to show how “generation” doesn’t exactly mean 30 years in that context, despite the literal interpretation being crystal clear.
I’d have far more respect for Christians if they didn’t constantly change their interpretations based on whims and false logic.
I have no idea what you are talking about in your first sentence, and you are not worth the time and effort.
No doubt you are correct that Biblical stories make no sense. That is not the issue. The issue is that your superstitious nonsense makes none either, and your ability to argue to the contrary is a joke, so you are in no position to criticise others.
Well…it’s actually less him then the half dozen other people who seem deeply invested in criticizing all Christians as desperately demented while appearing not to understand that not all Christians resemble Jerry Falwell. KGS just happened along at the right time.
Not all Christians believe the Bible is the perfectly devinely received, perfectly preserved, and perfectly translated Word of God.
In fact, most believe that it is poorly preserved and translated mixture of history and metaphor.
The worship of the One God is not the worship of one’s favorite translation of the Bible; some would call that idolatry, which, I am pretty certain, is proscribed in all versions of the Ten Commandments.
I am not a practicing Christian, or particularly fond of the church, but some of the atheists on this board make Michelle McPhee sound like a paragon of tolerance and intelligence.
