When god used the word "Water" it doesn't have to be H2O
It is just an approximation to what we don't know
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Oh, well, in that case any holy scripture can be made out to make it mean whatever you want.
... wait, what do you mean, you already do that?
So when the bible or koran reports god said "thou shalt not kill," it was just an approximation and we don't really have to worry about it? Wow, thanks! See, I have this list...
So the holy scriptures are to be taken absolutely literally, unless doing so would be foolish, embarrassing or no fun.
Funny, no matter what religion you subscribe to, the extremists among them always look the same.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."
Lewis Carroll beat you to it almost 150 years ago in "Through the Looking Glass."
"When god used the word "Water" it doesn't have to be H2O
It is just an approximation to what we don't know"
So when it rains, it's God pissing ?
Hey, I can turn beer into water. Therefore I'm God! Thanks for admitting that, Muslim 'Scholar'; you said it, I didn't! [/hyper-smartarse] >:D
Well, when as simple a word as "water" doesn't mean what it is defined as meaning, it really renders holy books of all types utterly meaningless and unreliable as we have no clue to figure out what is meant. Congratulations, you've just shitcanned the entirety of theism on the dung heap of irrelevancy.
When god used the word "Water" it doesn't have to be H2O
And when God wrote "don't drink alcohol", it doesn't have to mean alcohol.
P-A-R-T-Y!!
@Flah
(*Car stops in middle of Atacama Desert, where it hasn't rained for centuries; nothing organic exists, not even at the cellular level ; throws Muslim 'Scholar' out of car. Chucks him can of motor oil *)
I bet you make it 20 miles before you consider drinking that.
(*Walks back to car; about to drive off *):
Goodbye, Mr. 'Scholar'.
[/"Quantum of Solace"] [/Bond nerd]
And god did maketh deuterium, which did fucketh up the simplicity of H2O. D'OH!
Tritium is the work of beelzebub himself though.
You heard God use the word "water"? What were you smoking?
Now if you mean you heard the Bible use the word "water", Hebrew scripture uses the word "mayim", usually translated as "waters". But you're right - it doesn't have to mean H2O; the OT also uses the word to refer to urine. So maybe Gen. 1 means "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the piss, and let it divide the piss from the piss."
By that logic when god used the word "obey" it didn't have to be obey, right? And when he used the word "worship" it didn't have to be worship, and "commandment" didn't have to be commandment and "love" and "honor" don't have to be love or honor...etc.
And basically the bible simultaneously says anything anyone wants and nothing meaningful whatsover. thanks for clearing that up.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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