CaptainBritain
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What would be neat is if the same message got revealed to 10 different people in different locations around the World at the same time, so that as that message spread in those areas over decades and centuries and those peoples finally came into contact with one another they would know exactly what the other believed before ever meeting him or her and that that this message was from God and not just some random bloke making stuff up and saying God said.
The reason I dont trust any religion with a book is as follows, its too human a form of contact, you always have to take another humans word that its the truth, thats no message a God with any power would send imho, there are still to this day tribesmen that have not heard of any of these books.
When the faithfull talk to God they do not write him a book, somehow that message is supposed to magically get to Gods ear, where is the magic in a book, a thing most humans can put together.
For every person here that holds a Holy Book dear to their hearts there are a host of holy books they view as false and visa versa in return.
The very concept that God should arrive in book form and in books that any outside culture for the most part could never read due to literacy and language barrier in the begining when masses of nations fell to these religions carriers.
Kings converting so they get perks, wives not annihilated etc so all must follow or die or live lower lives, many having never read a word of it to begin with, that God would arrive in this fashion baffles me, for an all powerfull creator to choose such a trivial object as a book as a mode of declaring instruction.
A being or set of beings that one presumes could give every Human the courtesy of revelation that he/they bestowed on so few.
One would think if we talk to God he would tell us right from wrong and that nobody could ever confuse his/her/they/its attributes.
That we would not need a third and human party to write the truth down for us and in so many conflicting forms throughout time,
Over 200,000 Gods have been shown to us in human history, all presumebly by the few with the bat phone to heaven, yet the inconsistancies of these versions is startling, even amongst groups who profess the same God, who God is, what his/her attributes, what he wants etc is as clear between them as sign language to the blind.
Yet the message get conveyed in a book, would a good God put his message to humanity in a form that could be used for any purpose the human heart desires be it good or bad?
I could list the good and bad these books have been employed by mankind for but you know the history of those books and there use better than I.
Put short a book is an extremely flawed open to almost any interpretation form of communication, in the case of Holy Books as well as secular even morbid differences in interpretation occur, christian killing christian, muslim killing muslim, as two examples.
My questions are this (although feel free to attack it any way you wish),
why are there so many Holy Books on planet earth, and through our history there have been thousands?
Why are they so wildly different with the exceptions of certain golden rules in many like worship or burn?
Why is the nature of an eternal God/gods so inconsistant based on geographical location and point in history?
And what do you feel Gods message to the World in book form has done to clarify matters?
In the case of those who view their book as the only word of God, if God/Gods did send a message in book form, how could any mere human write one that could compete with it?
Just a rant on the subject, if its not well thought out in places I can live with it
The reason I dont trust any religion with a book is as follows, its too human a form of contact, you always have to take another humans word that its the truth, thats no message a God with any power would send imho, there are still to this day tribesmen that have not heard of any of these books.
When the faithfull talk to God they do not write him a book, somehow that message is supposed to magically get to Gods ear, where is the magic in a book, a thing most humans can put together.
For every person here that holds a Holy Book dear to their hearts there are a host of holy books they view as false and visa versa in return.
The very concept that God should arrive in book form and in books that any outside culture for the most part could never read due to literacy and language barrier in the begining when masses of nations fell to these religions carriers.
Kings converting so they get perks, wives not annihilated etc so all must follow or die or live lower lives, many having never read a word of it to begin with, that God would arrive in this fashion baffles me, for an all powerfull creator to choose such a trivial object as a book as a mode of declaring instruction.
A being or set of beings that one presumes could give every Human the courtesy of revelation that he/they bestowed on so few.
One would think if we talk to God he would tell us right from wrong and that nobody could ever confuse his/her/they/its attributes.
That we would not need a third and human party to write the truth down for us and in so many conflicting forms throughout time,
Over 200,000 Gods have been shown to us in human history, all presumebly by the few with the bat phone to heaven, yet the inconsistancies of these versions is startling, even amongst groups who profess the same God, who God is, what his/her attributes, what he wants etc is as clear between them as sign language to the blind.
Yet the message get conveyed in a book, would a good God put his message to humanity in a form that could be used for any purpose the human heart desires be it good or bad?
I could list the good and bad these books have been employed by mankind for but you know the history of those books and there use better than I.
Put short a book is an extremely flawed open to almost any interpretation form of communication, in the case of Holy Books as well as secular even morbid differences in interpretation occur, christian killing christian, muslim killing muslim, as two examples.
My questions are this (although feel free to attack it any way you wish),
why are there so many Holy Books on planet earth, and through our history there have been thousands?
Why are they so wildly different with the exceptions of certain golden rules in many like worship or burn?
Why is the nature of an eternal God/gods so inconsistant based on geographical location and point in history?
And what do you feel Gods message to the World in book form has done to clarify matters?
In the case of those who view their book as the only word of God, if God/Gods did send a message in book form, how could any mere human write one that could compete with it?
Just a rant on the subject, if its not well thought out in places I can live with it
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