EarthScienceguy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:12 pm
The Bible states that there is no one who is good.
- Psalm 14:1
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
- Psalm 53:1
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and vile in their ways; there is no one who does good.
What makes you think that you might be good.
Well, before you accept that, you would have to accept that the bible is telling the literal truth, and also you are taking the phrase 'there is no god' out of cultural context.
From the early Jewish scholars , it means that the people who do wrong act as if God does not care.
From
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/god
Hebrew thought is intuitive rather than speculative and systematic, and, furthermore, there were no atheists in antiquity. When the psalmist observed: "The fool hath said in his heart 'There is no God'" (Ps. 14:1), he was referring not to disbelief in God's existence, but to the denial of His moral governance. That a divine being or beings existed was universally accepted. There were those, it is true, who did not know YHWH (Ex. 5:2), but all acknowledged the reality of the Godhead. Completely new, however, was Israel's idea of God. Hence this idea is expounded in numerous, though not necessarily
So, you are 1)Making as assumption that the bible is true, something a skeptic is not going to do. and 2) You are taking a phrase out of cultural context to being with.
“What do you think science is? There is nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. So which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?�
Steven Novella