PAGANISM VS. CHRISTIANITY: BIBLE POETIC SPEECH
DESCRIPTION OF "promised land" in bible, and FLOWERY PRAISE SPEECH
IF YOU COMPARE THE BEAUTY of Pre colonial America or even the beauty of Forests and rainforests of Central America or Forests of China, you will see that IN NO WAY can an honest God say that the promised land would be in semi desert Israel or even the Sinai Peninsula.
So when the bible uses FLOWERY SPEECH OR PRAISE to praise an all powerful God, or talk about how great the Land was for ancient Israelites in 1000 BC to 3000BC, are we to take it seriously? Were the writers of the New Testament and even the Old testament exaggerating or just superficially boasting about how powerful God was, and how great was the promise of a beautiful "...land filled with milk and honey"?
Research the writings and stories of Native Americans and the early Americans who wrote about the beautiful land they lived in. Research the writings of Naturalists who lived in America during the 1600s and what the Pilgrims saw; what Daniel Boone saw and what the Native Americans knew about the beautiful America, before the 1840s. Now THAT was a land filled with beauty, milk and honey, etc.
POINT IS: how many times do we read passages in the bible that would...WOULD...seem ridiculous to OUTSIDERS who lived outside the geographical region of Europe or the Middle East? How many times would pagans or unbelievers view the bible with skepticism when they read passages of how great this ancient Middle East God was and how Israel was the Promised Land and how beautiful it was and then they read the Psalms? I AM JUST TRYING TO GET YOU CHRISTIANS TO THINK, and understand how the "pagans" think. Are they not justified in their skepticism?
For the most part (not all) the Native American culture was way more peaceful and healthy and good than the barbarous-constant-war-fighting European culture or the Middle East Culture. Look how long it took for an all powerful God to bring the Salvation message to old America or Central America, from the Middle East? For a soul saving message, why did it HAVE to take so long? It seems a bit ridiculous!! I ask again, to the natural common sense of an Outsider, how powerful and great can the bible god be in "real life"?
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