Posted: Feb 24, 2014 6:41 pm
questioner121 wrote: Not at all. The person who wrote the Bible is claiming that this is how the world was created according to God. It's not a book of science which is used to write down observations and experiments although it does contain things that can be tested by science to verify them. The Bible contains stories, laws and revelations. Books like these can make whatever claim they wish.
No, they shouldn't. If they are purporting to be a work of fiction, then fine. But if it purports to be a documentation of true events, then is is dishonest and deceitful to present things as facts which are not. If it began with "God claims that, in the beginning, he created the heavens and earth," that would be OK, so long as they had a verifiable source that confirms God actually claimed that.
It's hard to believe but there really really really is a God and some people know it.
Evidentally, it's not hard to believe, because so many people believe it.
That hard part, it seems, is being able to tell the difference between something you want to be true, and something that actually is true.
In the past some people saw for themselves undeniable evidence.
I find it "absolutely dishonest and disgraceful" that you would present this mere speculation as an unqualified fact. For shame!
Many people trust the accounts of those people but not all of them know that there is a God. It takes effort and will to find the truth, for me anyway.
More than you are prepared to expend, it seems.