How can we take the Bible as an unchanging guide to morality when it condones slavery?
You can murder men and women and keep the virgin girls as your slaves. You can beat them to within an inch of their life and suffer no consequence. You can keep them forever and pass them on to your children as your property.
The bible says this is ok...and we all know it's not. So how can you trust it as a moral guide?
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lol well that's a good point and a great example. But i'm raising this question to those people who consider the bible to be of divine origin or inspiration.
Well there's no geological evidence of a flood that covered that globe at one time. The rate of species diversification which would be necessary if all living animals descended from those on the ark is utterly impossible. The fossil record unequivocally disproves the idea that all animals even at the ambiguous "Kind" level existed at the same time. The historical nations of people that somehow existed in large, highly complex societies only decades after the alleged flood means that Noah's grandchildren must have fucking each other like rabbits on crack and gestating just as quickly. The alleged formation of the continents would require that physics took a holiday otherwise tectonic plates would have been racing around the earth at racecar speeds with enough radiation and friction heat to literally vaporize the crust of the earth. There's nowhere near enough water to cover the earth as described.
@Pikachu Off the top of my head all the items you mentioned have been explained already and many are in fact scientifically proven. Now, I haven't the time or the will and I am very lazy so the best and most accurate series you can watch if you want to explaining much of it is this: (Watch it all) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHcHwPj4sw
@Anton lol my dude, i have watched plenty of Kent (convicted wife beater) Hovind. Probably a lot more than y ou have, debates included. And if you like i can link you to an entire series which point by minute point debunks his outdated and scientifically illiterate arguments. I mean, this is a guy who calls himself Dr Dino and literally when asked could not define what a dinosaur was. "Er well i don't know, i'd have to do some research". lol
If you can muster the will, pick an argument of Hovind's you think best supports the Noachian flood and i'll be happy to utterly dismantle it. If not, please consider that faith does not equal fact.
Who, specifically, considers the bible to be of divine origin or inspiration? Nobody I know of.
Wow really? That's incredible. I mean for starters you can look at Kent Hovind featured in the video posted above. Ken Ham has founded and entire ministry on the idea that Genesis chapters 1-11 are historical fact and the word of God. I've personally debated here on this site many people who consider the Bible to be the word of god and you have only to search through some of my old threads to confirm this for yourself.
I agree that arguments should be put forth only after there is need of the argument...it's just astounding to me that you have not encountered this in your life lol
