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“So, unlike those who know they make up meaning, neither we who believe in God nor atheists know we made up God. On the contrary, there are very strong arguments for a Designer of the world, but there are no arguments for an ultimate purpose to life if there is no God.”
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
“To paraphrase the American rabbi and theologian Milton Steinberg (1903-1950), the believer has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for the existence of everything else—for the world, life, consciousness, beauty, love, art, music. It would seem the believer has the upper hand.”
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
“The logical argument is this: How does the atheist explain existence? Why is there anything? To that, the atheist has no answer.”
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
“Whether or not one accepts this last explanation—which I first heard from an Orthodox rabbi—the human being could indeed be regarded as part animal and part divine because human life is a constant battle between the animal and the divine.”
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
“In permitting Adam to eat from the Tree of Life but prohibiting him from eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, God gives man a choice between two mutually exclusive ways of living. Either he can eat from the Tree of Life and live forever without knowing good and evil or he can eat from the Tree of Knowledge, know the difference between right and wrong—and be mortal. As we will see, the point of the Adam and Eve story is that, if given the choice, we humans want a life of knowledge and choice more than a life of innocence.”
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
― The Rational Bible: Genesis
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