But the Bible and a belief in a god don't necessarily have to be linked. Humans have always believed in gods of some form, as far as we know.
Also I think even in the case of Christianity - where you do sort of need to go off the Bible otherwise how are you a Christian - there can be plenty of wiggle room. For example the more intelligent Christians I know do believe that Jesus was the son of God, but they recognise that the Bible has been translated over and over again through multiple languages and over 2 thousand years, and so taking every minute detail literally isn't necessarily following the word of God. Also god didn't write the Bible - people did. It's random people's accounts of what happened.
I guess ultimatey it depends what sort of Christian you are. I completely agree with you though that if you're the sort of Christian who believes in every single word of the Bible, especially the Creationist aspects, then this brings up a lot of questions about your intelligence because you are willfully ignoring overwhelming scientific evidence in many areas. I guess my point was just that a belief in God doesn't need to be like that.
Isn't it funny how neither of us believes any of this stuff but we both always end up talking about it at length on here lol.
As far as the idea of god not being linked with the bible, your right, however to my knowledge those are different gods. A muslim and a Christian aren't thinking of the same god. But the bible has such widespread credibility compared to other religious texts that is the most commonly used.
I haven't met any christians who think the bible was altered in translation or misrepresented by fallible human sources. All that I personally knew thought that 'gods hand' was guiding the hand of the writers and translaters of the bible so god got the exact message tnrough that he wanted.
Back on the actual topic, I do think that being a Christian makes me think less of someone's intelligence than if that same person were to be atheist. But if like you say, someone believes in only part of the bible but not others, that does not improve my opinion of their intelligence. There are people like that but I don't think their much more intelligent if at all. And also if you see my original comment on this post you can see where else I think there is nuances to this question.
I only talk about religion on here now that I'm at college its kinda funny.
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But the Bible and a belief in a god don't necessarily have to be linked. Humans have always believed in gods of some form, as far as we know.
Also I think even in the case of Christianity - where you do sort of need to go off the Bible otherwise how are you a Christian - there can be plenty of wiggle room. For example the more intelligent Christians I know do believe that Jesus was the son of God, but they recognise that the Bible has been translated over and over again through multiple languages and over 2 thousand years, and so taking every minute detail literally isn't necessarily following the word of God. Also god didn't write the Bible - people did. It's random people's accounts of what happened.
I guess ultimatey it depends what sort of Christian you are. I completely agree with you though that if you're the sort of Christian who believes in every single word of the Bible, especially the Creationist aspects, then this brings up a lot of questions about your intelligence because you are willfully ignoring overwhelming scientific evidence in many areas. I guess my point was just that a belief in God doesn't need to be like that.
Isn't it funny how neither of us believes any of this stuff but we both always end up talking about it at length on here lol.
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As far as the idea of god not being linked with the bible, your right, however to my knowledge those are different gods. A muslim and a Christian aren't thinking of the same god. But the bible has such widespread credibility compared to other religious texts that is the most commonly used.
I haven't met any christians who think the bible was altered in translation or misrepresented by fallible human sources. All that I personally knew thought that 'gods hand' was guiding the hand of the writers and translaters of the bible so god got the exact message tnrough that he wanted.
Back on the actual topic, I do think that being a Christian makes me think less of someone's intelligence than if that same person were to be atheist. But if like you say, someone believes in only part of the bible but not others, that does not improve my opinion of their intelligence. There are people like that but I don't think their much more intelligent if at all. And also if you see my original comment on this post you can see where else I think there is nuances to this question.
I only talk about religion on here now that I'm at college its kinda funny.