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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grandk who wrote (12488)	6/12/2002 12:13:48 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Romans also says that all Israel will be saved ("All Israel shall be saved.") This directly contradicts Mathew who says that all the Jews wil be sent to hell: Mathew 8--12 "But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." If you are going to quote the bible, be aware that the people who wrote and edited it, scratched it together in different periods of time, and that those who collated it were unable to give it any consistency or accuracy beyond being a rather disjointed mass of absurdities, superstitious, contradictions and boasts. I doubt there is a single remark in the bible which is not gainsayed by some other utterance... I am sure you are too decent a person to give much credence to a tale whose primary theme is genocide... As to God being ALL: again, everything which exists is either a part of God or a part of something not-God. But God being ALL and EVERYWHERE, there is not any part of time, space, matter, or spirit which is not God. Of course, there have been thousands of gods imagined and believed--but never any evidence for any of them. Supernatural belief originates in the anxiety of living in a mysterious and dangerous universe (ignorance) coupled with the awareness of personal death and extinction. Science has removed much of our ignorance, but it offers no solution to the death of ego. Thus, although supernatural myths are no longer pre-eminent for most people--still, they have not entirely been eradicated...