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When you read the bible, what about it makes you feel that it is divinely inspired? [Spirituality & Religion]

Because i don't get that sense at all when i read it. Just the opposite in fact.
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
This is a good example of science explaining some of the mysteries of the Bible:

https://www.inverse.com/article/35346-science-fact-check-bible

People believe it's divinely inspired for the same reason people back then did. To this very day you have people attributing weather to god, any unexplained event as god, any violence as God's wrath.

Their bias won't allow them any other explainations.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
These tired old explanations. Old as the hills. The fact that of course they were just coincidental with what Moses was doing is lost on some people. I just cannot understand people who try and measure the Bible is divine nature by this sort of thing. @SatanBurger
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Speedyman Prove it.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
There is no need to prove it. The person with an experience is never at the mercy of a person with a empty argument[. @satanburger]
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@SatanBurger

Very cool. I love stuff like that. And it makes great sense.
Frightening or confusing phenomena are naturally going to be attributed to a god.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Pikachu It could make it seem to people as if it's divine, those people today don't understand what people thought of natural events that they couldn't explain centuries ago, so they still use the divinely inspired thing today.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
You love stuff like that because it falls in with your own preconceived prejudices. It’s as old as the hills. It’s even in Cecil B DeMille‘s film the 10 Commandments . @Pikachu
Speedyman · 70-79, M
@SatanBurger Can you explain then just how the red Sea opened when the children of Israel walked through it and just that it happened to close when tEgyptians tried to walk through it?
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Speedyman I highly doubt anything the bible has to say but a Christian scientist says it wasn't the red sea, it would have been the Eastern Nile Delta at a body of water called the Lake of Tanis. The conditions of the water back then would have been perfect for a coastal phenomenon called [b]wind setdown[/b] which would have pushed the water to create a storm surge in another part of the lake, completely clearing the water.

Moses and the Israelites would have had about four hours to cross the lake.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/mother-nature-not-moses-parted-red-sea-scientists-article-1.442054
Speedyman · 70-79, M
What the Bible says. The Lord caused a wind to blow that parted the seas. Just so hapoens it drowned the Egyptians. Don’t you think that an odd coincidence? Like many other things in creation you’re blind to?@SatanBurger
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Speedyman People to this very day attribute everything to God despite lack of evidence. Doesn't mean anything.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
This is one of the fallacies of atheistic thinking. This is why it’s so difficult to argue with an atheist because they simply are clueless in their understanding about how people think. They assume that everyone is as clueless as they are. Of course we go to tribute everything directly to God as there are loads in the universe. If I throw something in the air it will come down due to the law of gravity which God has made. The fact that it comes down is not due directly to God but due to the law of gravity. Your problem is that you’re thinking is completely muddled which is not surprising because you’re an atheist and atheistic thinking is completely muddled. I’ve seen it again and again and examples of it are all over this board@SatanBurger
@Speedyman Is there any physical evidence the Red Sea actually parted?
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Speedyman Lol so basically everything is goddunit.

[quote]They assume that everyone is as clueless as they are.[/quote]

Professing to know everything is foolish, if we did that in science or medicine a lot of people would die.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
I didn’t say I profess to know everything. The Bible doesn’t tell us everything it just tells us sufficient for faith and salvation@SatanBurger
Speedyman · 70-79, M
@wilderflower Well there is the written evidence which is the same as we have for many other historical events we take for granted
@Speedyman So it’s not proven.
Speedyman · 70-79, M
Nor is any history then @wilderflower
@Speedyman Like the Jewish Holocaust isn’t proven? How about Pearl Harbor? The Hindenburg?
Speedyman · 70-79, M
I meant ancient history. But of course some people say the things they don’t like are disproven @wilderflower
@Speedyman That’s true.
@Speedyman

[quote]. But of course some people say the things they don’t like are disproven[/quote]

So true 😉👍