Posted on 06/22/2011 10:24:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz
The impulse to create new bibles is not new. ...So while making new bibles may be an old tradition, when an atheist does it, it’s certainly news. Shouldn’t atheists be the last people producing bibles? The fact that the latest edition of the “new” bible has been created by famed British philosopher A.C.Grayling, an avowed atheist, makes one wonder, why has he written this book?
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The LOLcat bible is pretty good.
I don’t know about an Atheist one.
One mans book of virtues is another mans book of the dead.
“But whatever his intent was, in creating his new Humanist Bible, the author pays tribute to the enduring wisdom of the Bible and the importance of having a sacred text which informs our lives.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/21/do-need-new-bible/#ixzz1Q1h33kt2
> why has he written this book?
For money.
Why else?
What’s this “we” $hit???
Creation according to an Atheist:
In the begining there was nothing, and the nothing was without substance, form or intelligence. Then the nothing decided to be something and a loud noise was heard by no one in the nothing that had just decided to be something. And the now something decided to expand and grew in the universe for that was the new name of the nothing now something. And the universe dedided without intelligence to order itself from the smallest to the largest so that rules that did not exist in the nothing would now be applied to the something but without intelligence. And thus order grew from chaos.
/sarc
You get the idea ....
It’s amazing that atheists and agnotics can live by the wisdom, values, virtues and goodness of the Bible while denying the Source of all wisdom, values, virtues and goodness.
No one denies that there are good and decent atheists. but why do they deny there is a God who is the source of all things good?
A Bible written by a non believer would not be a Bible, would it?
A new “Bible” - as desirable as a full body rash.
LOL. so what? if this nice atheist or humanist reads something but says it is a pack of myths — even though the book and its authors claim that it is fact and/or prophecy — then the nice person is basically calling the authors liars and proponents who accept it as truth, fools, right?
To the atheist, the here and now is all there is, all motivation is based on what it can do for them now. Of course living as high on the hog as you can possibly live is what you aim to do. If you influence a bunch of people after you’re dead that might be an ego stroke to you right now, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
I have always wondered why they do protest so much about something they don't believe in. Strange ?????
Why bother? Lots of things I don't believe in, but I would not spend a nano second trying to dispute it.
I deny there are “good” and decent atheists.
My definition of “good” is probably different than yours.
Good is a relative term. They are “good” and “decent” compared to what? Not killing other people, or stealing when you can get away with it, or using your position of power to make others’ lives miserable is merely doing what is expected of people. Not kicking the crap out of people doesn’t get you a parade or a gold star. That’s a minimum expectation.
They are just living by a totally relative and arbitrary code they have decided works for them. Some have codes that conform well within societal laws and norms, many do not in one or more areas. But they are living the way they do based on two things - their own subjective morals and fear of punishment.
The Christian being sinner and saint, often lives by sub-par subjective standards in a few areas (character flaws, weaknesses, sins particularly attractive to them personally) but they know that is wrong and try to live by an OBJECTIVE GOOD standard given by God in the Bible. One bigger than themselves. Further the mature Christian knows we don’t kid ourselves thinking we’re “good” people because we know we continually fail to miss the mark and need forgiveness for failures every day. We aren’t the ones out there beating our chests saying how good we are. We know right know we aren’t. We know we aren’t saved by any of our “good works” and we know we owe everything concerning our eternal salvation (plus all our present benefits and good things) to God, not ourselves.
(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:11-14)
"even so the things of God knoweth no man" -- no unsaved person is equipped to write a Bible, translate a Bible, be involved in a Bible project in any capacity involving spiritual discernment. Just look at the spate of recent modern translations with doctrinally questionable and even self-contradictory renderings.
We have a winner!
Exactly - why put so much time, energy, money and anger over “nothing”? Why bother?
The Koran is not "a" Bible. Nor is Grayling's upcoming rant "a" Bible. (Check out Hollyweird's "Book of Eli" ending for similar notions). There is only one Bible.
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