@Ceili,
Ceili wrote:
You know he had a kid with Mary Magdalene right?
No, really, everything in the Da Vince Code is invention, if thats what you are looking at. Its meant to be and is just fiction, not a revelation of sorts.
JGoldman10 wrote:
The people who built the Tower of Babel were trying to buld the Tower to get to Heaven. God saw that and knocked the Tower down. As punishment God confused theri tongues and send them out into different parts of the world AS PUNISHMENT. That is why there are DIFFERENT RACES of people in the world and LANGUAGES.
I find it funny that you believe this. This is obviously a story invented to explain the existence of different races and languages. You know, a myth. The ancients invented a lot of these to explain a lot of things they couldnt understand. In fact, I dare say the entirety of the bible is a myth sometimes mixed up with historical accounts.
JGoldman10 wrote:
YOU ARE MISINTERPRETING SCRIPTURE. You aren't Christian so of course you aren't going to understand it.
Neither is Ceili.
Its quite the opposite, being a christian blinds you to how nosensical and self-contradicting the bible is. I know because I was a christian once, several years ago, and quite a faithful one at that. I read almost the entire old testament, and doing so was part of what made me eventually lose the faith and abandon christianism.
Also, how do you make the point of misinterpretation? Based on what? Who is to say what interpretations are wrong or right? If its the word of god, then isnt man, interpreting it with his limited and flawed mind, bound to interpret it wrong no matter how you look at it?
FBM wrote:
Oh, by the way, I was studying to enter seminary when I lost the faith. It was a class called History of the Bible, taught by a Baptist minister, that did me in. That and all the philosophy classes that taught me how to figure things out for myself instead of relying on authority and tradition...
Ye, that kinda happened to me too. Reading the bible + philosopy = loss of faith =)
JGoldman10 wrote:
YOU ARE TAKING IT WAY TOO LITERALLY.
And so are you, in some points. You choose to ignore the bible's promotion os slaverly and racism and the zillion of other bad things it has, yet you take its anti-gayness by heart. Feels like you are just using the bible to backup your own beliefs and claims and ignoring the parts you dont like.