Re:What Impressed Me About the Bible
by theandrewbailey on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:05PM
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The Bible has much to say about how God sees all people equally, that people should treat each other as family (it even teaches that humanity is the same huge family), and about how people should be as close to God as possible. The Bible wants you to think and realize on your own that slavery is a bad thing.
> It would put every human work to shame.
Are you talking about literary pieces, or everything done by humans? Because it attacks the latter:
Romans 3:9-10 "What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one."
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags."
> It would contain proof of its divineness by explaining things that 1st-century scribes couldn't possibly know.
That would be counter productive. The Bible is meant for everyone to read and understand. If it tried to explain things that even educated people couldn't possibly know, the Bible would be as popular to read as EULAs.
> It would be so densely packed with information on math, physics, biology, and morality that today's greatest minds would study it to create new technologies. It would explain the germ theory of disease, formulas for antibiotics, and treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease.
The Bible emphasizes the spiritual, not the physical, and it told humanity to figure the world out:
Genesis 1:28 "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise"
> It would put every human work to shame.
Are you talking about literary pieces, or everything done by humans? Because it attacks the latter:
Romans 3:9-10 "What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one."
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags."
> It would contain proof of its divineness by explaining things that 1st-century scribes couldn't possibly know.
That would be counter productive. The Bible is meant for everyone to read and understand. If it tried to explain things that even educated people couldn't possibly know, the Bible would be as popular to read as EULAs.
> It would be so densely packed with information on math, physics, biology, and morality that today's greatest minds would study it to create new technologies. It would explain the germ theory of disease, formulas for antibiotics, and treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease.
The Bible emphasizes the spiritual, not the physical, and it told humanity to figure the world out:
Genesis 1:28 "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise"