eriksank wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 2:00 am

AE86 wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 12:49 amI'm curious (nothing to do with Swedishness), have you ever challenged the Bible though and dug deeper into trying to disprove it? Because I find it very unsatisfying to read "God made the Heavens", and then just accept it.

The bible does not try to explain why it looks like there is a God who created the heavens and the earth. Aristotle does.

AE86 wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 12:49 amIf I were to accept what the Bible says, I would like a lot more than a simple "this book says so" because it seems to make sense.

That is only about morality, which is a list of arbitrary, unexplained, revealed categorical imperatives, that forbids particular behaviours. Immanuel Kant explains in Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, why morality must have that form. It would not work otherwise.

Still, because of the confusion in Christianity as to the status of the Jewish Law that it inherited, using the Bible as a legal system is not particularly recommended.

The approach works much better with the Quran, which is a very consistent legal system ("Sharia"), in widespread use. Just the fact alone that Sharia prevents secular rulers from inventing new law, turns it into a desirable solution. It shuts down every attempt by parliaments of further restricting people's freedom. Sharia does that by declaring man-made law illegitimate. If Sharia did not exist, we would have to invent it.