Yes, I don't feel it is my problem. I don't see any text as absolute. But if the claim of divine inspiration is a genuine one then you might hope that a god of that inclination would take care to inspire the translators as well as the original authors. Or maybe your god has special messages for Anglo-Saxon readers that don't apply elsewhere!
Obviously. The rest of us learn Greek and Hebrew or at least look up words that have changed in meaning, in a good Oxford or Websters 3 volume dictionary
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If the English of Queen Elizabeth I was good enough for Jesus then it's good enough for me.
The Hebrew word for a day can be 24 hours, and it is usually context and/or commentary from another passage that affirms whether we grasp it well. Because at that time, written language was in its infancy, the terms tend to be broad, and allow context to direct the meaning. This is no problem for a Hebrew, even today. They don't think like Westerners.
You haven't given me any reasons to change that view. Why is it perplexing? We were all born atheists, indeed we were born entirely unaware of the christian mythology.
There is no reason not to rob you blind or take your life in the process if I can be assured of getting away with it. There are only two factors not to do so 1) would be a societal pressure after an evolutionary standpoint, but if I can get away with it, that pressure is removed. The 2nd is a higher plane of existence and values than merely genetics and DNA. Logically, it makes better sense to enrich your life by my robbery and demise and there should be no regret over such since it doesn't matter any way if we are both dirt. There is, literally, no reason to refrain if I am not created in God's image nor you. Apes do it to each other all the time. There is no remorse. Apes don't answer to a God. That is what separates us. Besides, Einstein was smarter than most of us, he believed a god must exist, and he did not say 'gods' so was a deist representing few religions at that point, all from Judeo/Christian origins. He didn't claim Christianity, but he did come to his belief in God from his science and mathematical studies. That somebody more brilliant than you believed God had to exist, I'd think a denial anti-intellectual.
The question for every christian is, how did you let that happen to you? Did you get greedy for the charlatan's promise of living forever? Did it become comforting to have a childhood story follow you into adulthood, no matter how miserable it actually is, prima facie? How could you possibly believe the recycled Mesopotamian man-god myth of a child being born of only one parent, capable of walking on the surface of water, and walking again after judicial execution?
You haven't got a clue, buddy. I 'would' have been that moral-less guy without Christianity. Christianity, indeed does incredibly influence people for the better.
If that's not absurd, a bit dull, and obviously made-up then what is?
It isn't a logical position. Never will be. You have to be purposefully obtuse, not just ignorant, to be an atheist. It is not, in fact, the default position. Everything, your parents, creation, beauty, your favorite flavors, all point to purpose in the universe. You have to turn off a portion of your brain (the good portion) to hold to atheism. There is no wonder, awe, or beauty left in an atheists world. Oh, I'm sure there is hedonism, but that isn't the same thing. You oddly use the one thing animals can't do - logic/understanding, to relegate yourself to the rest of creation that doesn't have that capacity. What could be more inane than that?
You do realise that what I write about your belief system is high praise compared to what Einstein wrote about it, right?
Again, he was a deist and Jewish. Of course he didn't believe in Christianity. He had morality issues with his girlfriend that were unacceptable at the time. Anything he might have said was reactionary, but he did indeed say that from his studies, he knew God had to exist, however else he felt about Him.
Do you actually know what Einstein believed about religion? I sense the danger that you will quote him out of context, a very easy thing to do unless you have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of all his statements about religious belief. But go ahead, and then be prepared to be torn apart by the cabal of heathens living in here!
No need, I'm well aware . Again his view against religion is not a lack of conviction that God surely exists, of which science and mathematics convinced him.
I am aware of his statements about the Bible (OT specifically, he was a Jew, and held more strongly to it as he aged). He said science without God was lame and inadequate to task.
I have to add that I think Einstein is wrong about the relative roles he assigned to science and to religion.
If you had a 180 IQ that would impress me. That may seem a bit of a cheapshot, but it is not in this case. Again, Einstein came to his conclusion based upon science and mathematics. He is the quintessential master of his domain. If is incredibly odd that public education is trying to separate education from religion. This is the strange obsession of atheism and communist states when the premiere quintessential player says not to do it. At least you are on a Christian website a LOT.
I am still breathing. No god has stopped me. Not even Bacchus. And what is more, I don't have a spiritual outlook based on someone being nailed to a tree.
Again, drawing your breath, just now, by His sustaining power, is a mercy, especially I light of the sentiment, no? I can't make you a Christian. There is only one who can.
Don't forget unheard, and unnecessary too.
Seen a Few Good Men? You very well may need Him on that wall, whether you know it or not, to even pen your response and draw your breath while doing so. Einstein certainly believed and concluded so. He had a hard time and disdain for religion (not that he had great exposure to Christianity, he was often writing to rabbis), not God.
