Good place for the tuff questions...
"Didn’t men write the Bible?"
Absolutely. When you write a letter, do you write the letter, or does the pen? Obviously you do; the pen is merely the instrument you use. God used men as instruments to write His "letter" to humanity.
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@Shadow Boxer:
There was a myth being spread during the Dark Ages that said that their deity did just that. Numerous churches claimed to have the "original" Bible that God "poofed" into existence from which all others are copied. It fell apart when certain other churches got jealous and exposed their fraud, only to turn around and claim the exact same things. So basically the same thing happened as with all other religious relics, only more violent. I seem to remember that there were some battles fought over it, but history isn't my strong suit.
Yes, well, I have it on very good authority that God inspired J.K. Rowling to write the Harry Potter series as His New Word.
Prove me wrong.
I bet mailman dan is the same douchebag who leaves my mail on top of my mailbox rather than putting it inside...
...and why misspell tough, tuff is kinda, well, *gasp* gay...
"When you write a letter, do you write the letter, or does the pen?"
In that case he needs a better, non-violent, non-bigoted, non-chauvinistic, non-racist pen. His old one was pretty fucked up.
Why didn't god create the bible animal while he was creating the rest of the animals?
That way we could have fields of bibles galloping across meadows in the spring. And if needed to catch one to read it, you could just dig a pit and put some communion wafers and half a bottle of red wine in the bottom.
I think you meant to write "absolutely not", otherwise your analogy doesn't work. But since your post contains obvious errors, then you can't possibly be speaking for god, right?
Indeed. And if you use a less than perfect pen the results get meesed up. Same with God using imperfect men...no?
But there is still no proof that God ever used men. More like Men using men and women to their own ends. The clever conning the naive.
Yes, He used men to write his letter, and he got Mohammed to recite, and Joe Smith to translate Golden Tablets.
Meh. I'm still waiting for an explanation of how Moses wrote an account of his own funeral.
Timetravel! :p
BTW: am I the only one who thinks that since it's already hard to get what you want on paper with a complex tool like LaTeX (and even more so with Word), doesn't he realize that a more complex tool (humans) are even more likely to screw up? :p
So Moses, Mark, John, Luke and all the others were tools. And we see that Mailman Dan is the Lawnmower Man.
Perhaps, but if I was sitting across the room commanding the pen to write, I couldn't be sure it was my message at all, now could I?
The Bible was either written in blood, or this guy's simile fails.
Harley says:
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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