ORIGINAL: YooperMike
Looks like I'm hell-bound for sure, not that I'm surprised by this. I am a "non-believer." This entire thread is why religion does not appeal to me. All you religious folks can sit there and easily criticize someone else for not doing what you do. Why is your way right and mine wrong? I don't believe in a book of fables written by man. Do you really think a senior citizen built a boat and saved the animals? Everything that is written is written by man, humans, and been interpreted countless times. How can it still be true? If you hear a story from someone that starts "My friend's brother's cousin's nephew..."you are immediately skeptical, but with the sotry of christianity, it is followed like the most obvious truth ever.
I could honestly care less what the responses to this are going to be. If you want to claim to know what kind of person I am because I don't go to church, then so be it, but think about who the ignorant one really is. When you all meet someone for the first time, is the first question you ask based on religion, and then all other actions/thoughts are based from there? Sure as hell seems to be in this discussion.
At its most basic level, this conversation is no different than Hoyt v Mathews v Bowtech. Mine is the best, and don't tell me any different.
Actually, we know the Bible is one of the most if not the most historically correct books written ever. Homers Illiad is about the only thing that comes close. The book was wrote over several continents, without a printing press, by people who didn't speak much. And still when they put together all the material they have found and even from the Dead Sea Scrolls to papyrus found in Ethiopia, to manuscript found in Turkey, they line up more closely than any other book for its age.
Only thing we really don't know about is the end of the book of Mark and thats only like 3-4 verses.