I disagree. It is used to understand behavior with respect to survival of the fittest. Evolution doesn’t care about morality it cares about adaptation and propagation. Evolution cannot explain why we can choose to be immoral or behave in a way that is against our own nature.
There are overlaps to be sure, but evolution is an emotionless, uncaring, unthinking process.
Evolution, for instance cannot explain why it is wrong to rape your sister, if anything raping would be a favorable activity under the pure guise of evolution. Evolution does not tell us its wrong to rape, ethics does.
Have you googled and read the articles by those saying otherwise? I haven’t for full disclosure though I did skim one or two. But the information is out there to the contrary and most of it is similar to other biblical issues where “what you’re reading doesn’t mean what you think.” Or this article that suggests the Leviticus you’re familiar with would have been different earlier. That book that very few people agree on the meaning of has been modified, translated, altered, etc.
But none of this is that important to my point. You can find people who interpret the Bible differently. Vastly differently over numerous and numerous verses. The Bible definitely means this is almost universally false by nature. It means exactly what you’re deciding it means. But billions of people have came to different conclusions than you before and they will come after you’re dead.
In the bible, God kills 2,821,364 men and Satan kills 10.
An analysis of every slaughter in the good book reveals that, despite authoring the commandment “Thou shalt not kill,” God caused the untimely deaths of at least 2.8 million people, a slaughter of truly biblical proportions, in which he uses walls, plagues, bears, floods and other people to execute huge numbers in inventive and vengeful ways.
I think this backs up the claim of others in this thread that religion is needed to serve as a moral compass to teach a person that killing is wrong. God was not religious (he had no higher power in which to place his faith), and as such lacked the moral compass to guide him and teach him that killing people is wrong.
Well, if we follow the Bible Satan is actually at fault for killing everyone ever since he caused Adam and Eve’s fall thereby dooming all mankind to death.
Well, if we follow the Bible God is actually at fault for killing everyone ever since he caused Adam and Eve’s fall thereby dooming all mankind to death.
Is the author of that piece the same Bryan Fischer who directed the American Family Association, and whose actions caused it to be labeled a hate group? Let me check… oh, yes, it is.
That is true, people try to twist the words around to suit their own purposes. That’s why I said there is no coherent way to interpret it in any way that suggests gay marriage would be allowed.
As for the article you linked, I’m highly skeptical.
First of all, we are discussing whether the Bible could be interpreted in a way that would allow gay marriage, the death penalty is a separate issue and the point that I am making is that it’s basically impossible to conclude that gay marriage would be permitted while gay men are to be killed.
As for Jesus and the death penalty, there is the story about “let he who iss without sin cast the first stone”, but it appears that it was not in the original texts and only added centuries later.
" The pericope is not found in most of the early Greek Gospel manuscripts. It is not in {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}66 or in {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}75, both of which have been assigned to the late 100s or early 200s, nor in two important manuscripts produced in the early/mid 300s, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. The first surviving Greek manuscript to contain the pericope is the Latin/Greek diglot Codex Bezae, produced in the 400s or 500s (but displaying a form of text which has affinities with “Western” readings used in the 100s and 200s)."
But not quite as absurd as an all loving God sending people to be tortured for eternity in a lake of fire of course.
Not sure why God would stop school shooting though I agree with Fisher on that one. God gets his rocks off on death and destruction according to the Old Testament.*
Did you read the small article above about Hell?
If you did, are you saying you don’t agree with it?
I ask because l see a creator God wanting to create a being with whom to have fellowship, giving that creature a free will, and lastly granting a method (redemption) that the creature can be in the presence of this creator for eternity.
He didn’t create us as the plants and animals of the world, which blindly follow the dictates of nature and instinct. One can choose their path - get into fellowship with God or seek to …become like the one, Most High. It is that path that Satan chose and thus Hell.
Edit gone until lunch or maybe tonight if you happen to answer
You would think for an omniscient being, that putting the tree of knowledge of good and evil outside the garden would have been obviously a better idea.
Kinda like putting a machine gun in your baby’s crib. Then punishing it forever when it accidentally fires off a round.
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