Replying to: "The Bible Gives Us All A Choice To Make"

Claim:

"The Bible gives us all an option/choice to make."
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1. Which bible is "The Bible"?

They are many different versions. And they do NOT all agree on doctrine.


They don't even all agree on which chapters and books to include, which source texts to rely on, or how those should be translated.


Even the scholars quoted in concordances don't agree on what a lot of it means.

Various sects founders and "fathers" didn't agree either.

That's why there are so many different sects, with competing versions of "the message".

Layman readers are even less qualified to understand those texts within the context they were written.
And what chance have the got at figuring out what so much of it means, when the major sects and their preferred scholars couldn't agree, despite decades (each) of academic study and comparable hours in earnest prayer?

2. Why should anyone even pick up a bible in the first place?

You can't cite anything said IN a bible, to answer that;
because then you'd be evading the question.

The question, again, is:
What reason does anyone (in fact, everyone) have, to even pick up a bible before knowing what it says?

Curiosity?
That's nor a morally relevant incentive.

Rumors about why they should?
What if they haven't heard any?

In fact, what if they HAVE, but heard it from a source that even YOU wouldn't recognize as an authorized agent?
Surely you don't think they should care what someone in a false-Christian cult-faction says about anything.
So it wouldn't count.

What reason does anyone-and-everyone have,
from the moment they reach some silently arriving age of accountability?

What reason do ALL of those people have, to say "I better go find a copy of (Steve Sank's specific) arbitrary religion's favorite book that I've heard nothing about, and start seeing if it has the answers to some ultimate question I never thought about"?

In fact, even if they HAVE beat the odds
and heard a version of the sales-pitch you would consider authoritative and sufficient, ...
so?

Many religions across the globe have claimed exclusive truth as authorized agents, deputized by the Cosmic Sherriff.

Many even add the attempted coercion of "or else", like yours does.

So what?

There's nothing about a sunrise, or breakfast, or a shower, or getting dressed, etc
that logically leads a person to think "I better start obsessing about what my local culture's popular religion has been threatening some people on the internet about".


So even if there IS something in a bible that magically obligates anyone who reads the rune symbols they "spell" out sentences of their message with ...

It's simply not true that all humans have an awareness of any morally automatic obligation to look into it, to even find out what it says.




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