[Stu]

Originally Posted by Tom

A few Bible quotes describing God

http://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-definition-god.htm

Does everyone believe in The Bible? No. Come on man, you can't use The Bible of all books to try and define what god is. Fookin hell. There is no universally accepted definition of god. He wouldn't be much of a mystery, otherwise.

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

if you have not already I think you would genuinely love The Brothers Karamazov
by Dostoyevsky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov

Aye it's great .

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

Does everyone believe in The Bible? No. Come on man, you can't use The Bible of all books to try and define what god is. Fookin hell. There is no universally accepted definition of god. He wouldn't be much of a mystery, otherwise.

Aye it's great .

Most of what we know about religion comes from the bible. If you're going to reject one bit, you have to reject the lot. You can't just pick and choose which bits are relevant and which bits aren't just to suit your own argument.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Tom

Most of what we know about religion comes from the bible. If you're going to reject one bit, you have to reject the lot. You can't just pick and choose which bits are relevant and which bits aren't just to suit your own argument.

Who said I was talking about picking and choosing bits from The Bible?

All I am saying is there is no definition for God. There's just not. It's a pointless argument. It's something the world will never know nor never agree on. God could be anything or anyone. It's pointless trying to define it.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Tom

Most of what we know about religion comes from the bible. If you're going to reject one bit, you have to reject the lot. You can't just pick and choose which bits are relevant and which bits aren't just to suit your own argument.

No thats just not true, most of what you know about the Christian religion you have gleamed from the bible, unfortunately the Christian bible bears little knowledge of other religions, and would simply be used as a doorstep by some other religions.

I take it you have not even heard of the Tripitaka( tipitaka in parli) or the Sutras(Buddhism) The Tanach/Tanech (Torah, the Nevi'im and the Ketuvim) of the Jews. The Suhuf Ibrahim, the Qu'ran, Injil Zabur and Tawrat of Islam. The Vedas, Upanishads, Manusmriti, Srimad Bhagvatam, Bhagwad Geeta (Hindu). The Guru Granth Sahib of the Seikhs. Some great reads there, lots of wisdom, i can recommend them.

As for picking and choosing which bits of the bible are relevant, isnt that why the Proddy one has 66 books and the papist one has 72 books. Eastern Greek Orthodox Bibles have even more.



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[Crimson Dynamo]

You cant not believe in the Bible as it is there in front of you. The Bible is 66 books, found in most good bookstores. In terms of historical manuscripts it is pretty much the best, by miles, we have.

[Shasown]

Read through the thread and explain where the thread is limited to the Christian view of God, in fact if you do read through it you will find the views are definately not of the christian view of god, simply the existance, proven or disproven though science.

[Tom]

I didn't say it was limited, that was my own interpretation of it and thats the point I was putting across. The other posts are very general, not including any other religions which doesn't make it ridiculous just to stick to the Christian view of God.

... and people call me picky in arguments.

[Shasown]

Could I refer you to post #59, then your response in #61 Judas asked if everyone believed in the bible, your response was

Most of what we know about religion comes from the bible. If you're going to reject one bit, you have to reject the lot. You can't just pick and choose which bits are relevant and which bits aren't just to suit your own argument

Total pap there are many forms of religion and each have their own definations of God, you however decide to limit the definations of God to what you are familiar with and assume everyone has the same restricted knowledge.

Hence the correction I introduced.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Could I refer you to post #59, then your response in #61 Judas asked if everyone believed in the bible, your response was


Total pap there are many forms of religion and each have their own definations of God, you however decide to limit the definations of God to what you are familiar with and assume everyone has the same restricted knowledge.

Hence the correction I introduced.

oh god, so now you're trawling back through the thread and picking up on everything to try and attempt to prove me wrong on a pure pedantic level. In the context its quite clear I meant about Christianity, not religion as a whole. Thats 2 completely different kettle of fish. But 2 religions can't co-exist if one is right and they're all separate. So you have to isolate each one anyway.

Please enlighten me, what knowledge of Christianity do we have that doesn't in some way tie into the Bible?