quote:Originally posted by Jennifer:
Then why not just straight forward "instructions"? Why all the "thou shalts" and all that stuff? Why not just plain english such as, "don't kill people", don't do this don't do that. In plain english. The reason is, the bible was written by people who spoke like that. No god told them anything. A god would have known we would "evolve" and would have used plain words to speak to us. The ones writing the bible couldn't imagine the way we live now, and there was no god to tell them. All they did was decide how they thought mankind should live, and wrote "scary stories" telling people what would happen if they didn't live that way. The bible is an old instruction manual for them. I imagine they wrote parts of it to "explain" the things around them they didn't understand. Ask a child to explain something and we laugh when they do. But until that child grows up and learns how that something works all they have is their imagination to explain it.
Excellent! I agree 100%.