Daily reminder to actually read and study the most influential

>>9751156
How can we trust God? What if he is actually lying to us through angels/prophets?

>>9751162
The Bible should be titled "The Metaphor" so people like you wouldn't exist.

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>>9751156
if god is good then why does he allow bad thing to happen

>>9751178
The ultimate gift of free will

I have to read the western canon first, then I have to read the eastern canon, then I have to read the detective novel canon, then I have to read the Quran, then I have to read all of Western philosophy, then I have to read all of the introductions to Western philosophy, then I have to read some texts on mathematics, then I have to read all of psychoanalysis, then I have to read all of musical analysis, then I have to read all of painting analysis, then I have to read all of literary analysis, then I have to read all of literary criticism, then I have to read all of anti-literature, then I have to read all of anti-philosophy, and when I'm done reading all of that I may read your shitty book

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>>9751162
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>>9751182
Excuse me, my lads, this is an outrage porn thread, not a theological discussions thread.

>>9751194
Too obvious bait

>>9751162
You don't trust God, you merely accept every single one of His whims.
>>9751176
It's not a metaphor son, it's mythology.
>>9751178
Because He wants it to.
>>9751194
OP is right though, it is possibly the most influential.

I don't particularly like the New Testament, it's kinda uneventful but oh boy oh me the shit that goes on in the old stuff is really good. I feel like it could be so much better though, several of the books rejected at the Council of Nicaea is great. Cutting the giants out of the plot, what were they thinking? Or rejecting some of those childhood gospels was also a mistake, but that's just me.

>>9751196
Hitchens didn't know that the shepherds were also a part of the flock, or that humans do work and die.

>>9751182
What about the people born with mental problems? Where is their free will?

>>9751235
Mythology can be tailored by any tailor. Metaphor is purely what is to be taken from the events depicted regardless of historical accuracy. No need to believe to a T when the same conclusions can be made through its ambiguity.