Well it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I guess I can start by saying that I am now a born again Christian, I’ve turned away from atheism due to the overwhelming amount of evidence for God and Jesus….blah ha ha ha, ok obviously I’m kidding. On the contrary I have gained more insight into why lack of belief or being skeptical is the more correct approach but much to my chagrin, I forget or lose all this information in my mind somewhere, it’s annoying.
I guess I could start with a few questions: if god were real or Jesus for that matter, why not send down some archangel or angelic being to write down the Bible 2.0 or an upgraded version or something of the sort. You know something that would improve on the previous one, where it really missed things like: “From now on thou shalt not kill the infants of the nations thou invadest, or their women or their children or their livestock, Amen.” or ” I say unto thee whoever amongst thee rapest another, be it an infant, be it a child, be it a woman or even be it a man, mind thee I must include this because who knows how humanity will be in a thousand years from this writing, if thou harmest one of these in this manner, thou shalt surely spend thy days after death in the fire of Gehenna” or “From now on forth, for God’s sake let homosexuals marry, they’re not touching you, I mean, thee.” Upgrade even to the New Testament which Christians believe brings all the love in the world. “I, thy lord and savior aka Jesus the Christ or Messiah, order thee, my brethren to let women be equal to you, I mean, come on it took 1900 years since I was around for women to be able to vote, seriously and they still can’t make equal pay with men due to discrimination. Get to work and change this.” or “Be known from the lord thy god, that I messed up and should’ve updated the part about slaves being obedient to their masters, I should’ve just been crystal clear and said: owning another human in any way is tantamount to being very sinful and punishable by hell.”
Another thing that the Bible 2.0 could add to its repertoire and really get more adherents to Christianity is actually putting forth more prophecies with actual events that match in the least or at best matches and has actual dates, for example, in the year 2035, there will be an earthquake that’ll kill 2,000, in name your location, unless you evacuate or pray with at least 2 people on the spot to stop it as it begins. I’m pretty sure there are more ideas that could help the Bible 2.0 be legitimate if it included these and other things relevant to the culture of the day and not the cultures of myths as the regular Bible was a part of.
If the word of god were timeless it wouldn’t need special interpreters or the descriptive phrase: “it depends on the context”. If it were not timeless then the changes to morals and behaviors must be made by humans to it continuously as priorities and times change and the parts that are irrelevant discarded, and if we have that type of action then we wouldn’t need the Bible, because we have ethics philosophers to do such a job.