The urge to KNOW

 

Recently I read an interview with a Muslim man which made me rethink certain ideas that I've always held to be THE Truth. In my opinion Islam is much more logical than the Christian faith as it presumably was presented as one set of learnings brought to mankind by one so-called messenger from one deity, namely Allah. The Quoran is the story of the meeting of one human being (Muhammad) and one angelic messenger, the angel Gabriel, whereas The Bible is a conglomerate of scripts, legends, testimonials and something looking very much like fairy tales. 

As we know from readings of e.g. the so-called apocryphal scriptures The Bible has been subjected to a certain censorship by the Church and not everything was accepted as a true part of it: What we read as the Holy Scripture is in reality an "embroidery" of tales and testimonials, but The Bible as we know it is not all there is. That means that we may still be surprised by new revelations of what happened back then, several thousand years ago. Archeology may bring even more, also evidence that some of the legends don't hold water when set up against science and  scientific proofs. Would we for instance be surprised to find out that Jesus wasn't killed, but that he escaped the Romans and lived happily with his wife, Mary Magdalene, in France until he died of old age? That's one of the seemingly wilder theorizes about The Crucifixion, but it takes much more than that to prove it. As reported by Isaiah 53 Jesus claimed that he was Messiah and he said that he would be betrayed, condemned and killed, but come back to life. If that testimony was a lie by Isaiah and that the still alive Jesus maybe was left for dead in the grave chamber of the rich man, Joseph, then the Christian teachings are null and void.

There is evidence of crucifixions, namely the penetrated heel bone of a poor, nameless man who died on the cross, but that's no evidence that the same happened to Jesus - or that this specific bone came from his leg ....

Right now many people all over the world, but first and foremost in America, cling to the belief that what was said in the scriptures about Jesus is true, e.g. that it might be scientifically proven if only we found some more evidence. However, to find the remains of Jesus himself would put an end to the Christian faith because then there wasn't any Resurrection, no Ascendance and thus no Eternal Life.
 

Being an Agnostic I always felt that the answers to religious questions would be science. To me that meant that if the sayings of the "Holy Scriptures" didn't hold water to our scientific knowledge then they should be put in the same box as fairy tales, myths and ancient beliefs in non-Christian gods and heroes. However, I've come to understand that sometimes even science doesn't hold water to superstition, religion and the like. The Muslim man in the above mentioned interview said something about "science changing all the time" which in his opinion makes it untrustworthy. That means that what I always have seen as an ongoing, natural development of knowledge often are in fact as delusional as religious tales of supernatural events. Something like that was not what I wanted to hear, but I agree that it can't be denied altogether: Neither religion nor science is the one and only, e.g. undeniable TRUTH human beings always have wanted to find ....

 

https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ 

 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2020.1786221 

https://undsci.berkeley.edu/understanding-science-101/a-scientific-approach-to-life-a-science-toolkit/convince-me-how-strong-is-the-evidence/

 

https://undsci.berkeley.edu/understanding-science-101/the-core-of-science-relating-evidence-and-ideas/ 

 

https://undsci.berkeley.edu/understanding-science-101/what-is-science/science-has-limits-a-few-things-that-science-does-not-do/ 

 

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