Why the Bible? (Religion)

by BBella , Saturday, September 13, 2008, 06:37 (5913 days ago) @ George Jelliss

It baffles me why anyone would base their entire philosophy on absolute belief in this text. It is after all just a compilation of books by various authors and editors. Some of it is literature, poems, biased history and fanciful myth, and much of it written in language now difficult to interpret. > - I can understand where edinburgh comes from as I too believed almost verbatim as he does now from a very early age. This happened to me just as it is happening to him...this is the faith handed down by the "fathers" that we are taught to search and study the scriptures to prove to others and to ourselves "where" our faith comes from....a book, "The Word of God." What I didn't understand then that I understand now, is that I was taught to "use" these scriptures to justify a belief I had already been indoctrinated with since childhood, and not the other way around. I found later, I was able to use this book to verify any and every other doctrine I later chose to believe as well. This was realized in hindsight. I did not purposely move from church doctrine to church doctrine to prove this, but if I had, I would have obviously found what I was looking for. This goes back to what I have observed within my own experience over the years...I can prove whatever I choose to believe with whatever I choose as evidence to prove it with.