You're not the only one with internet and a brain....and can read......lots of smarter people in the world than you or me, and they may be more studied up on the subject than you are. That's all I'm saying. But if you're emotionally attached to an idea.....even a bad idea then no amount of logic will convince you. Strong emotion overrules logic and they've become quite adept at invoking it. The emotion that TV or media or friends have invoked in you will overrule the logic. I don't blame anyone for believing this way, heck we've all been subjected to media's flashing lights, musical tones, and repeated phrases designed to brainwash us. Most people think those bad ideas are their own and then decide to model their life after it, often with dire outcomes. And even if we know we can still become victims of it. It's no coincidence that the divorce rate went up when TV was invented....
You shouldn't read the bible like you would a billboard.......You'd be amazed by how even the chapters and verse numbers of the Bible have special meaning....not just the words.... even though they were added later on. In the old testament which was written in Hebrew.....each letter has a symbol, and a number and they have meaning too. In fact the first line of the bible establishes the end. Here is an interesting video a guy made about that. https://youtu.be/RmnUkNT55gU check it out...
No need to be condescending..... Child sacrifice was fairly common with the Sumerians and Babylonians. As well as some other disgusting practices....not exactly shinning lights of virtue....I'm sure they were capable of lying just like our own historians....(how accurate have they been?). Some of what they wrote does line up with the Bible.....they use different names (well similar)....because that's how names translate sometimes.....You're free to believe what you want.....For me I would rather trust Jesus's version of history first and then see how much of their writings line up with the Truth. But that's all I have to say about this.....
You're not the only one with internet and a brain....and can read......lots of smarter people in the world than you or me, and they may be more studied up on the subject than you are. That's all I'm saying. But if you're emotionally attached to an idea.....even a bad idea then no amount of logic will convince you. Strong emotion overrules logic and they've become quite adept at invoking it. The emotion that TV or media or friends have invoked in you will overrule the logic. I don't blame anyone for believing this way, heck we've all been subjected to media's flashing lights, musical tones, and repeated phrases designed to brainwash us. Most people think those bad ideas are their own and then decide to model their life after it, often with dire outcomes. And even if we know we can still become victims of it. It's no coincidence that the divorce rate went up when TV was invented....
You shouldn't read the bible like you would a billboard.......You'd be amazed by how even the chapters and verse numbers of the Bible have special meaning....not just the words.... even though they were added later on. In the old testament which was written in Hebrew.....each letter has a symbol, and a number and they have meaning too. In fact the first line of the bible establishes the end. Here is an interesting video a guy made about that. https://youtu.be/RmnUkNT55gU check it out...
No need to be condescending..... Child sacrifice was fairly common with the Sumerians and Babylonians. As well as some other disgusting practices....not exactly shinning lights of virtue....I'm sure they were capable of lying just like our own historians....(how accurate have they been?). Some of what they wrote does line up with the Bible.....they use different names (well similar)....because that's how names translate sometimes.....You're free to believe what you want.....For me I would rather trust Jesus's version of history first and then see how much of their writings line up with the Truth. But that's all I have to say about this.....