The Word cannot change because it is perfect and comes from God. (Unless you are King James.)
"The Word" referring to God's message, and by "message," I mean concepts of morality that we believe in and do our best to illustrate throughout our lives.
Just so that we all don't get confused.
The holy trinity is a Mathematician, a Physicist, and an Engineer.
The Mathematician set the rules for the universe. The Physicist determined the materials that would be available. The Engineer figured out how to make that material turn itself into stars, beer, and paper airplanes.
It's really that simple. Anything else is anthropocentric idealism and crowd control measures.
That's cute.
I'm going to assume that you're agnostic / atheist, even though your response could be construed as religious.
In that frame of context:
I really don't see how anthropocentric idealism fits. The whole point of believing in something larger than yourself is that you are subservient. Let's not be putting our square pegs in round holes.
Religions got a huge problem with saying: sorry we were wrong. Science is willing to give up a theory if it proofs wrong.
I don't agree.
An example:
The Catholic church saying: Whoops, sorry about tricking hundreds of thousands of people into thinking that for giving us money, we would give them a piece of paper saying that they would get into heaven.
Science is
supposed to give up a theory if it's been proven wrong, that's how science works. It's much more difficult for religion because the values that are placed on the inherent beliefs dictate the entire moral course of our lives.
I don't suppose Newton's laws of motion contribute to the moral foundation of anyone's lives?
The problem is, the bible was written by ppl who didn't know anything about our solar system/universe or genetic.
In that time period, neither were the majority of the history, science, and literature books.
That's of course only taking into consideration the people that were privileged enough to read.
Imagine how archaic our present knowledge will be in 2000 more years? People will laugh.
After reading and thinking about the responses here, it seems as though the people here that are agnostic / atheist have an issue with religion, and not the concept of God, salvation, etc.
I think it's extremely important to make that distinction because religion was created by human beings, which I think everyone can agree, are inherently flawed.
That being said, a discussion about
religion is never going to end, because of the myriad idiosyncratic anomalies that invariably lie within all religions.
I think that things would be more productive if the focus of the topic where shifted toward the concept of God, philosophy, and the relation to the human condition.
@ JessEH (The Beatles pwn j00!) -
I took an Astronomy class in college that said that we know what happened 10^-43 seconds after the universe began.
We don't know anything before that because we need a larger telescope.
