The “Indisputable Word of God”
Cannot have any other meaning. You cannot say that something is both up to interpretation and also undeniably true. If God were real I doubt he would leave his important messages to chance. I am tired of people telling me that I do not understand the message, or that I do not know enough. I understand the universe to a relatively high degree, it does not matter if I do not understand your religion, I understand reality and find that your religion is not in agreement with the rest of existence.
Firstly if you understand science, you understand that at it’s very basis even science, though indesputible, is also not absolute.
Quantum physics. A particle is a wave, a wave is a particle.
Reani hates the medieval era but she loves it but she despises yet but she loves it. XDSecondly: The Bible is NOT meant to be the Indesputable Word of God, and anyone who claims it is hasn’t read it and doesn’t understand its history. They’ve only been told it is by their parents or their pastor or priest or whatever and swallowed the pill like good little kids.
Things that thoughtful Christians understand about the Bible: It is a translation of a translation of a translation
It was, at it’s best, giving it the benefit of the doubt, inspired by God. God is perfect, wo/man is not, but wo/man still frequently thinks s/he knows best. So here’s the thing- God may say “purple” and wo/man may get the inspiriation for purple, but think “hey, God can’t possibly mean purple, purple is ugly, I’m sure God means blue” and write down blue.
And then another person is translating that person’s blue, and translates it to navy, when maybe that person meant more of a cobalt. And then another person is translating that person’s navy, but see, in that last person’s language, navy could also mean midnight blue, and so that person decides that because they like midnight blue better, it must be midnight. And then someone else is translating THAT translation, and midnight is an ugly color so obviously it God couldn’t have meant midnight, he meant turquoise cuz that’s always been that person’s favorite color. And then in the next translation turquoise becomes Green…
and God intially meant purple, but now, 300 years later, everyone thinks it’s supposed to be green.
it’s like the worst game of telephone ever.
I think it’s important to point out what reanimatrix said here. The bible is what you make of it. Any religion is what you interpret it as.
As a Jew, the way I interpret the Torah and it’s teachings are different from my best friend’s, and we went to the same synagog, Hebrew School, and we’ve known each other for almost a decade now. The “Indisputable Word of God” changes from person to person.
I don’t think the point is to force someone to interpret the bible/Koran/Torah your way, I think the point is that everyone should find their own happiness and meaning out of their religious tome, and just be happy with what they’ve discovered in it.
