Why the Bible was created in the First Place. The Story Behind It

[gran guerrero]

Idk why I am typing so much these past 3 days...need to go back into hiding.

Because it's been a while since we had one of these convo's here on this boreumz.

Btw what are you referring to when you said CCC? I'm not familiar with this abbreviation.

[Summa]

Here is why...
Everything I am going to say is my views and my views only. Agree or disagree, it is your choice.

People created the Bible because they needed something to believe in. A long time ago, before the bible was made, they did not have any technology to explain things around them. There was no Isaac Newton or Copernicus and what not. There was no one smart enough to figure out how things worked the way they did. So in order to cope with what they experienced, they created religion. Where one "greater" being created the earth and he/she created all the land forms and what not, and created man and animal.

Now, we have evidence to prove the Bible wrong. Now we have proof of the Big Bang theory, evolution, and other scientific findings that totally disprove the Bible. Honestly, I do not know why people still believe in a tattered book that was written thousands and thousands of years ago. It was all created to explain the unexplained. The people back then did not have the privileged of knowing about the big bang, evolution, and what not. They only knew what was thought in their community. The only communication they could have between towns was if they traveled or a messenger brought it to them. So basically what I think is what happened, it that some guy in a town thought of all the idea in the Bible, then wrote it down, then made it into a book. Then he got a bunch of people to help him spread his "teachings"." Kind of like Jehovah's Witnesses. It was only to explain the unexplained and should not be used now. It is outdated and most things in it are wrong.

Long live science.

You have bought into a mainstream conception that science is "at odds and in combat" with religion. It really isn't. The only issue that science has with religion is that religion asks for belief without proof, and science cannot comprehend such a thing.

Just because oral tradition can lead to exaggeration and a lack of knowledge can lead to speculation, and consequently inaccuracies; doesn't mean that the book should be discredited. Even more so, while the Bible acts as the source material, the majority of the Church's belief structure is no longer located within the Bible, it is located within the CCC. And if you have ever read the CCC, you will realize that it claims that almost all of the Old Testament, which is where the majority of people's "inaccuracies" are located, is essentially an inaccurate account that should only be taken for its spiritual and metaphorical value. And that value is actually quite immense. I am going to assume you live in a democratic or socialist society that probably operates on a constitution structure. That entire political structure was created by people and a line of thinking heavily influenced by Christian values. Christianity may not have value to you in terms of explaining the way the world is or how it came to be, but (radicals aside) it undeniably promotes upstanding values and "good" citizens over the course of its modern history.

However, addressing your "science proved this and that claims"; you're wrong. The primary tenet of Sir Francis Bacon's scientific method is that nothing is ever "proven". Just as Einsteinian relativity rocked the very foundations of Newtonian gravitational physics, everything can be challenged and found incorrect. That said, evolution is as close to scientific fact as it comes. However the big bang is an interesting case. It is a case where it is fairly certain that it can explain how our universe came to be, but it may not be a definite explanation of how all being came to be. That is to say, it has not found a way out of infinite regress. To put it in philosophical terms: if the big bang theory assumes that something and the negation of something came together and generated the universe, the potential being for the generation had to exist either interior or exterior to the actual being. If it was interior, then please show me where in the atom that a universe is generated from; and if it is exterior, then it is imposed by something. If it is imposed then it is created, etc -> infinite regress. Or at least that is the most common non-technical objection to big bang theory out there.

Idk why I am typing so much these past 3 days...need to go back into hiding.

[gran guerrero]

Science hasn't necessarily explained everything. People want answers that aren't given, so they turn to the easier choice and fling themselves towards their nearest belief (If family and friends are all Christian, most likely you will become Christian). It's your nature and your environment that makes you who you are. Those who dare to question and challenge authority will see through the bullshit, but there's a certain plateau of thinking that is hard to surpass, so eventually some of those free thinkers would go back to believing in something different than what was given to them as a child. They will turn to New Age thinking, try meditation and quote from Buddha. Then they'll think it's bullshit again and the pattern repeats itself. Life is an experience, and everyone changes with it. Whatever works to make them happy and acceptable in their society will be the acceptable choice for the majority of mankind.

[zih]

Here is why...
Everything I am going to say is my views and my views only. Agree or disagree, it is your choice.

People created the Bible because they needed something to believe in. A long time ago, before the bible was made, they did not have any technology to explain things around them. There was no Isaac Newton or Copernicus and what not. There was no one smart enough to figure out how things worked the way they did. So in order to cope with what they experienced, they created religion. Where one "greater" being created the earth and he/she created all the land forms and what not, and created man and animal.

Now, we have evidence to prove the Bible wrong. Now we have proof of the Big Bang theory, evolution, and other scientific findings that totally disprove the Bible. Honestly, I do not know why people still believe in a tattered book that was written thousands and thousands of years ago. It was all created to explain the unexplained. The people back then did not have the privileged of knowing about the big bang, evolution, and what not. They only knew what was thought in their community. The only communication they could have between towns was if they traveled or a messenger brought it to them. So basically what I think is what happened, it that some guy in a town thought of all the idea in the Bible, then wrote it down, then made it into a book. Then he got a bunch of people to help him spread his "teachings"." Kind of like Jehovah's Witnesses. It was only to explain the unexplained and should not be used now. It is outdated and most things in it are wrong.

Long live science.