1 question always puzzles me.
If God is all knowing. How was he convinced to not SLAY others by mortals/prophets etc?
There's a heck of a lot of references to dismiss the idea that someone of enlightened thought was not present upon the Earth who had a huge amount of influence on people around him.
And there also seems to be an awful lot of reports of direct interaction between "God" and people, and not in a dream like enlightened sense, but in a real physical, almost paranormal fashion.
And then we get onto some of the depictions of "beings" in the Good book.
The religion seems to take total leave of it's senses in not acknowledging the contradictions present. This worries me, because it affects humanity as a whole. Was in misinterpreted? A total fabrication (I seriously doubt this)? Mistranslations?
To me, I do find the argument to suggest it's nothing but a myth to be very condescending, and I'm not religious - but I am a human. People back then were still more than capable of understanding and creating great things, when you consider some of the utterly mind boggling monuments that remain to this day as testament to our ancient cultures not being primitive cave dwelling ignorants.
One thing that always struck me though, with many religions out there, with fantastic histories monuments and stories, how do you choose with faith to have other than essentially spinning a gambling wheel with your soul?
No, for me, and I may be wrong, I believe there's something a bit deeper beyond all this that gets lost in the endless bitching about who is right and wrong. The Bible for all it's controversies contains great life advice and meaning behind all the, well, bizarreness at times, and if I was "God" I'd be a bit annoyed by that quite honestly.
From my understanding though, ultimately, I don't think God invented "religion" I believe man did.
