Thread: Penn & Teller; The Bible is Bullshit
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Old 08-14-2007, 10:29 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mytmouse57 View Post
Did God not give us the ability to reason and think logically?
Isn't it somewhat insulting to God to NOT employ those gifts He's given us?

That's about all the "evidence" I need to know such stories as a guy being swallowed by a whale and then barfed back up a few days later are NOT intended to be taken literally.
God has given us the ability to think and reason. However, the story of Jonah showes that God has complete authority over His creation. If in 1945 I told you about the internet, you would have though that I was out of my mind, yet here we are. You do not take the Bible literally because somewhere along the road you decided that God was not who He said that He is. If God and reach into my heart and change me from who I was to who I am, If this same God could speak the world into existence, then why is it so hard to think that God could direct a big fish to swollow a man and then at His command set him free? How big is God too you?