Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Bible really was God's Holy word!

We could write a new one for everone to debate & fuss about. Chapter 1 In the begining the Great Omnipotent Diety ( GOD ) saw the emptyness of the universe & through his will & with a large explosion spread all matter & energy across it. Billions of years later on an insignificant speck of a world on a far flung corner of this universe the GOD shaped some of this matter & energy into life. Once formed this life followed it's own destiny & development. Eons later this life had evolved into many species & forms. These continued to change, many fell into extinction others including Humans came to dominate the planet. From there everything went downhill.

You expect that god to make sense! He put a forbidden tree in the middle of the garden when he could have easily placed it somewhere else or just not created it at all. He flooded the entire earth just to wipe out humanity which he should have been able to do with a single thought & left the rest of the planet intact. He decided that the only way we could be forgiven of OUR sins was if we killed the only person without sin. What kind of twisted logic is this?

This is not a positive response. You are teaching God. Do what you want and God will not interfere with you. God has laid down His doctrines, you may or may not obey Him, that's up to you. He is talking through the Holy Bible and so He is telling you so many things. God is not dumb, you just don't like to understand. It seems that you know a lot of things but you lack more than what you know.

Most enjoyable read barehugs! God as a landlord would have been sent to the courts for not looking after his abode and the tenants living under his roof. Then again as a landlord perhaps he would have done well to serve a mass eviction notice many many years ago. You know it is not beyond the realms of intelligent people to ponder whether we are actually in the right place. This is afterall the ANIMAL kingdom and whilst we share the majority of our genes with animals, we are afterall not supposed to be. Our spiritual nature suggests we're not supposed to be acting in such primal ways as we still seem to do. Did we land on planet earth by mistake. Is this just a big cosmic mistake, we took the wrong turn at Mars and should have dived through that black hole in Andromeda and entered another sector of the universe? That book of which you speak has caused allot of ill-ease (disease) over the years and I for one would like a better explanation than has been previously given. I don't believe the bible is God's word. It is a human interpretation of what the writers understood to be The Way Back to A Divine Existence. And as we have more in common with ANIMALS than Devine spiritual consciousness we suck big time at understanding and following Devine Principles. God just asked me to say that. We're friends by the way, thought you'd like to know that, spoke to it last week in fact, says to say hi and for you not to forget to do your asannas. Is impressed with your lotus position, very well done.

you are being sarcastic....right?

Hi barehugs, There is much that is good in the Bible, but there is also much that is ridiculous. I'm not sure that I agree with you though, if God were always telling us what to do, and we knew it was God speaking, wouldn't we be like puppets with God pulling the strings? Having all the answers just for the asking sounds pretty boring too. Blessings.

"In the Beginning,49 billion,329 million,705 thousand,. . . years ago God created Heaven and Earth. " Serious answer: Estimates put the age of the Universe at 13 billion years. The age of the Earth itself is about 4.5 billion years. Then again, its all on some observations, calculations and theories. We could be wrong. I'd also wonder if God or Creator(s) do indeed monitor things. Its possible, but then again its more faith than fact. There is also the issue of why one would spread a holy word(and possibly "perfect" word)...and the issue of can sentient beings(in this case humans) really understand it. If it was perfect, it would have a guide of how to live and if it was too perfect, a core aspect of life (learning and growing) would be completely changed... possibly irrelevant. Silly answer: Pfft, Barehugs, everyone knows that the universe started in another reality 500 quadrillion years in the future. Other theories place this universe as being in a line of other old yet extinct universes.