/lit/ - Literature

>In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth

>>9608985
>people actually trust this guy

>>9605302
>compatibalism

what a big baby

>>9562286
I'm not the one defending it though. As far as I can tell it has all the trappings of being written by bronze age cretins who over time become more humane (though not that much), introspective, philosophical and mystic in their relation with the concept of deity, as we would expect from a historical record of religious understanding. I don't find it to be the inerrant word of God. I don't even find it to have very good morality. In one verse alone with have a racially exclusive "divine" approbation of infanticide, slavery, molestation , and even pedophilia (Numbers 31:17-18). Clearly if we find such ideas as owning people, and forcible sex with children to be immoral then we obviously didn't get these ideas from (((Yahweh))). I don't really care how many absurdities are in the book because its not the central text of my entire belief system.