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Christian dogma relies on the belief that the 'bible' is the literal word of 'God'
a 'deity' with at least two different personalities when you compare the new and old testaments yet, the Council of Nicaea ultimately decided what would be in the Christian bible. So you would also have to believe that they were 'doing God's work.' One of the claims to legitimacy in the bible is the fulfillment of 'prophecy,' however, there are at least three problems with this: there is such a thing as intentionally-fulfilled prophecy, i.e. someone said something will happen and someone can make that happen as it is within their power, one could also simply pre-date 'prophecy' to a point before the event, and you can simply make a prophecy that will likely occur at some point and is subject to interpretation, i.e. 'Babylon will fall' of course, all civilizations have a time frame and what counts as 'fall' is also subject to interpretation. Even 'Babylon' is subject to interpretation. Finally, there is a great deal of 'magic' discussed in the bible, yet somehow the 'magic' discussed in other religions is all 'fake.' How exactly is the tale of Jesus and his miracles more legitimate than tales of the Greco-Roman Gods? The Germanic Gods? After-all God in English originally referred to the Germanic Gods, e.g. Woden. The major failure of White 'paganisms' was the failure to codify and make canon. There were always contradictory stories about the Gods, this undermined their apparent legitimacy... there was no Greco-Roman 'bible' to compete with the 'Judeo-Christian' bible. Ultimately, abandoning your rational mind simply because you want something to be true
if I have faith (suspend rational thought) and obey I will be resurrected after death as a perfect immortal ruler! is a major human failure. Accepting any text as 'God's command' is failure. Tell me, why can't God communicate directly with people, I mean a chatbot developed by man can, so surely God could always do so better? Why must we accept a 'testament?' It reminds me of this ancient saying, 'religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.' C'est la vie la~
Edited last time by Voxxe on 02/06/2024 (Tue) 04:26:36.