Is the bible still relevant today?

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bhavv said:
When I was 12 I was sat with my Geosafari everyday, learning and memorizing the name and locations of every single country in the world, and reading about every single disease and medical condition in a doctors book that my parents had, yet I never once heard the term 'Four corners of the Earth'.
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Wikipedia said:
The GeoSafari was an educational toy released in 1987 by the National Geographic Society, and later the Educational Insights company. It originally cost $99.95. The system used two-sided, laminated cards that fit into the front of the machine. The center of the card had numbered elements that were the answers, and the sides of the card had a list of questions or prompts. The device would turn on a light next to a random question, and the user would type in the number of the answer element. After all the questions were answered it would present a score. Card topics included history, geography, math, astronomy, zoology, anatomy, geology, science, foreign languages, reading, and various others. Several versions were released through the 1990s, but Educational Insights no longer produces the GeoSafari.
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What. The. Fudge.

The Geosafari never said "the four corners of the earth", so it obviously isn't a common English phrase. FACT.
 
bhavv said:
Neither of my parents were born in this country and dont understand English very well, nor are they fluent at it, and English is also my second language thanks.
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Then why argue on what is considered normal use, if you have no idea. Your arguments and back tracking don't hold water.

Oh wait am I calling you a sieve?
 
bhavv said:
When I was 12 I was sat with my Geosafari everyday, learning and memorizing the name and locations of every single country in the world, and reading about every single disease and medical condition in a doctors book that my parents had, yet I never once heard the term 'Four corners of the Earth'.
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Sometimes a very common phrase can just slip you by. I only learned what the word 'several' meant when I wisecracked to my teacher at school that he couldn't count (I thought several meant seven :o).

But yes, it is a very common phrase!
 
AcidHell2 said:
Then why argue on what is considered normal use, if you have no idea. Your arguments and back tracking don't hold water.

Oh wait am I calling you a sieve?
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If it was that normal then surely I would have heard the phrase in School, but I never did.
 
bhavv said:
When I was 12 I was sat with my Geosafari everyday, learning and memorizing the name and locations of every single country in the world, and reading about every single disease and medical condition in a doctors book that my parents had, yet I never once heard the term 'Four corners of the Earth'.
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Are you being serious?

"I'd search to the four corners of the earth before I'd give up" etc

It might not be very popular, but it certainly hasn't dissapeared all together. It is still used culturally in book and film etc.
 
lixxus said:
Why ?

Ok which God gives you strength ?

The christian, Jewish or Islamic God ?
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Oh here we go again. :) Maybe they're all the same god ascribed different names from differing cultural, social and other migratory backgrounds over time? Who cares? It's not especially relevant to the thread. There's a huge great 'Believe in God?' thread in SC dealing with this very topic if you've a couple of hours spare though. :)
 
bhavv said:
Religion is not a specialist subject anyway, it is simply fairy tales for adults. There is absolutely no knowledge, or anything of intellectual worth to be found within the complete joke of any religious text or myth.

How anyone can blindly believe in a book that was written around 2000 years ago, and still believe that it is still in any way valid or relevant compared to all the understanding and knowledge we have today simply infuriates me.
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Okay bhavv, using science, pure science or whatever reasoning you prefer, why would a society have empathy, or social security style systems, or in fact why would a society not regulate its own births, excluding anything genetically inferior.
What is the basis of your morals? and your laws?
Using science only justify your own existance, not say why you occurred, but justify yourself and why someone shouldn't bury an axe in your head to take your goods and increase their own wealth.
 
vonhelmet said:
God.

I'm a Christian, but there isn't a "Christian God" and a "Jewish God" and an "Islamic God".

There's just God, as far as I'm concerned.
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Why do you follow the christian belief and not the jewish or islamic
 
Nitefly said:
Sometimes a very common phrase can just slip you by. I only learned what the word 'several' meant when I wisecracked to my teacher at school that he couldn't count (I thought several meant seven :o).

But yes, it is a very common phrase!
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Ok heres another one. I never knew what the holocaust was, or who Hitler was until I was 21, and I came across a character in Guild Wars called Holo Caust and read complaints about the name on the forums.

I thought 'Whats wrong with the name Holocaust?' and googled it. And I was like 'Oh ****, how come I never learned that at school?'.

There was a conspiracy that schools in areas with high Muslim populations didnt teach anything about WW2 not to offend Muslim parents and I believe it.
 
Well Christianity is surely based on the God the Jews believe in. As for Islam, I'd say the character of the God in Islam is quite different from the Christian/Jewish god, so is not the same god.
 
bhavv said:
If it was that normal then surely I would have heard the phrase in School, but I never did.
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Believe it or not, but school teachers don't use every common phrase in the course of your education. The checklist would be massive, for starters.

PS The above is figurative speech. I'm suggesting that teachers might have a checklist of all possible phrases, which they would then tick off as they go through the years, to make sure that they have at least once said all the necessary phrases, so that in years to come children aren't stumped by phrases they haven't heard. This is an example of absurdity - the notion of such a checklist is ludicrous, as it would be enormous. Hence, I am making the point that teachers don't go out of their way to use every phrase, idiom or figure of speech, so you shouldn't be surprised that you never heard it.

PSS I know the above may appear patronising, but your previous posts suggest you're not very good with figurative speech, so I didn't want to take the chance.

PPPS I'm being sarcastic, in case that had gone over your head as well.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Okay bhavv, using science, pure science or whatever reasoning you prefer, why would a society have empathy, or social security style systems, or in fact why would a society not regulate its own births, excluding anything genetically inferior.
What is the basis of your morals? and your laws?
Using science only justify your own existance, not say why you occurred, but justify yourself and why someone shouldn't bury an axe in your head to take your goods and increase their own wealth.
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Morality and human emotion isnt exclusive nor in anyway attributable to religion.
 
ordinaryjoe said:
Well Christianity is surely based on the God the Jews believe in. As for Islam, I'd say the character of the God in Islam is quite different from the Christian/Jewish god, so is not the same god.
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It's exactly the same god, the only real difference is what importance they give to Jesus.
 
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