Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Bible and Jesus

Since we were talking about God in class, I wanted to put my opinion out there first and then see if it changes after talking about it.

With the understanding that God is an all-good, omniscient being that created the universe, The Bible is a misrepresentation of "Him". My most reliable piece of evidence is the story of Noah's Ark, when God decides that he's going to kill everyone because they aren't behaving how he wants them to. First of all, this is not an act of good - God isn't being good by killing everyone. Second of all, if he created the world, then why would he create human beings that he ultimately wanted to kill? He had to have known, since he's omniscient, that they would've turned out that way.

So now that I've proved that the content of The Bible is questionable, I want to talk about Jesus. There isn't much proof that Jesus was the son of God other than from The Bible and other religious texts. Why would so many people get together to write this text about God and Jesus and all of the events that pertain to them? I think Jesus was a real person that actually walked this earth, but I don't think he was divine. Jesus was ahead of his time; he knew how to make people listen to whatever he said. He was enough of a leader to start a huge following filled with people that truly worshiped everything that came out of his mouth. It could have been a lot of people all working on this big scheme together, or it could have been solely him. It's hard to know, but that's what I think to be true.

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