1. You can't believe in God, love, compassion, humility and sacrifice without believing that there was literally an Adam and Eve, who by disobeying God, brought sin into the world, thereby ushering in a messiah later to die for our sins as a symbolic, yet literal sacrifice?
2. Do you know the difference between symbolism and physical reality? Symbolism and metaphor are used to describe in a 'poetic' way how we should obey God. They are not a description of a physical event that took place in physical reality.
Also, it is irrelevant that physical reality is made up of atoms that we cannot see. This is not an abstract or symbolic concept. Atoms are real. Incredibly tiny though they are, they have been actually photographed. Besides, atoms make up physical reality, not nonphysical reality.
3. Do you know the history of the Bible? It was not written in one long stream of consciousness. It is a compilation of many books both historical and parable. The various books were scrutinised, edited and there was much consternation and struggle over which books to keep in or out. After a vote, a group of primitive and superstitious men inspired by their 'belief', not 'knowledge' of God then decided that this or that book more or less coincided with their consensus of what they believed was 'the word of God'. It was then labelled as such.
I believe in God. I also believe that scientifically speaking, there could very well be a nonphysical universe surrounding our physical universe but they do not overlap.
I just do not believe that there is such a thing as the 'word of God'. That phrase in itself is a metaphor.
We all want easy answers to life's questions. I'm afraid it's just not that simple though.
2. Do you know the difference between symbolism and physical reality? Symbolism and metaphor are used to describe in a 'poetic' way how we should obey God. They are not a description of a physical event that took place in physical reality.
Also, it is irrelevant that physical reality is made up of atoms that we cannot see. This is not an abstract or symbolic concept. Atoms are real. Incredibly tiny though they are, they have been actually photographed. Besides, atoms make up physical reality, not nonphysical reality.
3. Do you know the history of the Bible? It was not written in one long stream of consciousness. It is a compilation of many books both historical and parable. The various books were scrutinised, edited and there was much consternation and struggle over which books to keep in or out. After a vote, a group of primitive and superstitious men inspired by their 'belief', not 'knowledge' of God then decided that this or that book more or less coincided with their consensus of what they believed was 'the word of God'. It was then labelled as such.
I believe in God. I also believe that scientifically speaking, there could very well be a nonphysical universe surrounding our physical universe but they do not overlap.
I just do not believe that there is such a thing as the 'word of God'. That phrase in itself is a metaphor.
We all want easy answers to life's questions. I'm afraid it's just not that simple though.