So since the subject of evidence was brought up. I'll simply ask what evidence of God's existence would you atheists accept as proof of God? Something short of God actually appearing to you as proof. Something that you wouldn't deny. Like what would you accept that proves God's existence?
Thing is language isn't exact unless it needs to be. For instance if we were in a room together, I pointed at something and said "Give that to me please." If it's not cluttered together with other stuff you're going to know exactly what I meant. Unless you're trying to be stubborn or a bit of a jerk and say something like "Nuh-uh you didn't say the object's name so I'm not giving the remote to you." As our society has gotten more complicated so has our communication and need for exact word choice. Plus the questions we ask today aren't the type of questions they would ask back then. Your expectations for the Bible to conform to your term specifications today are a bit like asking 'why didn't God just give everyone iPhones with Twitter and Facebook?' Such things weren't needed and the terms and specifications you're asking for today weren't needed back then as well.dclarkg said:
I would expect something more accurate of a knonw-all supreme being, also there is a post made earlier that actually contradicts those claims of the earth being round in the bible and so on. We can still debate what the bible says about this matter but that is only because the claims come from interpretations and not actually stated facts like I would expect of a holly book.
