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<blockquote data-quote="JimJ" data-source="post: 1326620" data-attributes="member: 555251">I understood that; my point was unless you&#039;ve had a personal visit, you have absolutely no way of knowing better than the next guy that the God in the Bible is actually the &quot;true&quot; God, any more than Allah or a Jewish faith or a Hindu deity or a magical tree in the woods. That&#039;s why it&#039;s called &quot;faith&quot; and not &quot;science&quot; - nobody can tell you you&#039;re flat out wrong with any certainity.Personally, I think the Bible is nothing more than a collection of texts assembled over hundreds of years, probably started because a story about a fearsome and all-powerful deity seemed a good way to keep the peasants working and relatively under control. There&#039;s nothing in the Ten Commandments that when taken out of a religious context seem all that crazy...it&#039;s mostly common sense, but add in a good invisible man story and it&#039;s more effective.I don&#039;t really care what religion others believe in, as long as they don&#039;t try to force it on others. It just strikes me that some think there&#039;s a &quot;right&quot; and &quot;wrong&quot; on an issue that&#039;s impossible to know for certain //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JimJ, post: 1326620, member: 555251"] I understood that; my point was unless you've had a personal visit, you have absolutely no way of knowing better than the next guy that the God in the Bible is actually the "true" God, any more than Allah or a Jewish faith or a Hindu deity or a magical tree in the woods. That's why it's called "faith" and not "science" - nobody can tell you you're flat out wrong with any certainity. Personally, I think the Bible is nothing more than a collection of texts assembled over hundreds of years, probably started because a story about a fearsome and all-powerful deity seemed a good way to keep the peasants working and relatively under control. There's nothing in the Ten Commandments that when taken out of a religious context seem all that crazy...it's mostly common sense, but add in a good invisible man story and it's more effective. I don't really care what religion others believe in, as long as they don't try to force it on others. It just strikes me that some think there's a "right" and "wrong" on an issue that's impossible to know for certain [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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