I think Christian's in this age need to take the time to study and educate ourselves better. Reading many of the posts here it's amazing how many "Christians" simply spew out mindless comments when asked intelligent questions about the Bible. A man could be asking about the validity of the stories in the Bible and your reply would be to quote a verse of the Bible the says the Bible is true. That doesn't make much sense does it? Even when there is concrete proof of myth-like influence on several Biblical stories many refuse to agree. That fact that the Bible is not a scientific textbook does not take away from the central message to man, does not take away from the poetry and magical stories in the Bible. So why do some Christians feel the need to still be "literal" believers in the Bible.

In all fairness that attitude smirks of insecurity and fear. Fear that in admitting that the Bible is better appreciated as mythology with a message, the Christian cause will suffer. How long can the attitude survive? As human beings evolve our understanding of the earth and it's origin slowly get better. There are several things we don't understand and probably would not be understood for many generations. So what sense does it make for ANYONE in this present day and age to claim full understanding of all the mysteries of life and nature. Many modern day Christians criticise Catholics and call them false Christians, don't this very people realise that maybe 100 years from THEY may be the ones being criticised by the then modern age Christians.

Like I said in the title of this topic, please let us try to be more responsible, mature and enlightened in the way we view Christianity. Would love to read your comments.