If the Bible is the "Word of God" and God is perfect then the Bible must be perfect. One would have the expectation that someone who created the universe would have a pretty good idea about how it all worked and that his books would be accurate. Well ... not so, as it turns out. The Bible is full of serious errors. So many errors in fact that it makes you wonder where God went to school. What amazes me is how many people believe this - which shows you the sorry state of the human race.
First - the world was not created in 6 days. It just didn't happen that way. But - you say - to God a day is like 1000 years. Well - come on! If God is omnipotent and he's writing a book for people to read and understand - don't you think that God knows how long a day is? I mean - doesn't one have to assume that God isn't stupid? So - even if a day is 1000 years that takes the age of the universe up to what? 12,000 years? Where did the other 15 billion years go?
We are seeing stars and galactic clusters out there that are 10 billion light years away. That means that what we are seeing came from stars 10 billion years ago. That's how long the light takes to get here. if the universe were merely 12,000 years old, we couldn't see any stars that were more than 12,000 light years away.That would be less that 100th of our own galaxy and we would never see any other galaxies because the next closest galaxy is 2.2 million light years from here. The Bible is wrong. End of story.
But - you might say - maybe God just created the light in transit to make it look like there were stars out there older than 12,000 years to fool all those scientists with no faith. Well - besides the conclusion that God must hate smart people - if God did something to mislead people - if God created light to fake the age of stars - doesn't that make God a liar? Are you calling God a liar?
So - the Bible is wrong - what does that mean. Well - if there is a God - then he didn't write the Bible. Perhaps it's a forgery meaning that God is going to be pissed at all the churches. Or - most likely - God doesn't exist and it's all just one big fraud. Bingo! Sorry to burst your bubble but it's all just one big lie.
The Bible also has creating in the wrong order. The stars came before the Earth - God has it backwards. Then there is Noah and the Ark Story. Highest mountains are 27,000 feet - 40 days and 40 nights - that's 25 feet of rain an hour. That's one hell of a rain! And two of every species on a big wooden boat. All because God lost his temper and had to destroy the Earth. You would have though he would have seen that coming. God really has a temper problem and could use some violence counseling. He really needs to control his anger better.
Then there's the Tower of Babel. These guys thought they would build a tower to climb up to Heaven and mess with God. At some point in the construction God started to get worried about that and he had to put a stop to it before they succeeded. So God changed all their languages so they couldn't talk to each other.
Think that would work? God has never had any experience with a San Francisco construction crew where you pick up a bunch of Mexicans on Army Street and put them to work. They figure out what to do and how to get paid. And - considering the time - how high was the Tower of Babel? How high can you build a building out of wood rock and mud? How high was it compared to our modern steel and concrete buildings? Why didn't God stop the construction of the World Trade Towers? (Oh - he did!) We've been in outer space and looking down at the Earth and God is not in the atmosphere. So - why was he threatened by a tower? See - doesn't make any sense when you think about it. (Although thinking about it is the work of the Devil.)
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