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The bible was written to be read with your heart and not through your eyes.
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Since I don't know braille, I'm limited to reading with my eyes...and using my brain, an organ which analyzes and assimilates what I've read better than does my heart, an organ which pumps my blood. Having read the Bible using my brain, I understand it to be a book very true to its time and the level of understanding of its authors. It's a mythology that explains, in terms simple people of the time could understand, why nature and the world are the way they are. The creation story, the history of the Jews as portrayed in the Old Testament, the story of Jesus as the messiah-the fulfillment of the Jewish prophecy, the teachings of the early Christian leaders to the churches of the time; it's a story, partly truth and largely fiction, that gave the early believers something to rally around, a guidebook for their belief.
Two thousand years later it's outdated and unnecessary. We no longer need to propose gods to explain nature. Biology explains nature using only the processes observed in nature. No need to suppose a supernature. Geology provides a natural explanation for the formation of the planet that doesn't require a superhuman creator. Cosmology is making inroads into understanding the development of the universe, a development that depends on the same natural processes that created this planet and each of us. Nowhere have we found any evidence of divine influence in nature.
So if you want to believe the Bible and accept the creation story it portrays, go right ahead. But don't expect those of us who prefer to look at nature as a natural, not supernatural, system to accept the Biblical story of creation. It's nonsensical, unscientific and supported by absolutely no evidence that can be tested and evaluated for validity. Asking us to ignore the evidence is to ask us to cease using our brains. Ain't gonna happen.