The Bible is Not Needed

Alan Watts once told a story that has stayed with me.

After giving a talk on Canadian television, an announcer approached him and asked, If the universe is governed by an intelligent and benevolent God, wouldn't he naturally provide us with an infallible guide to behavior and to the truth about the universe? Watts knew he meant the Bible.

He replied, No, I think nothing of the kind, because I think a loving God would not do something to his children that would rot their brains.

And I might add that a loving God doesn't hand us a rule book, he gives us a mind.

So do we need a Bible, by which I mean an infallible and inspired word of God? The only way that you can think that we need an infallible guide is to misunderstand why we're here.

We're not here to be good people, pass the test and go to heaven.

We're not here to accept Jesus as our Savior and go to heaven.

So why are we here? The key to understanding our purpose is to understand evolution.

Evolution is the key to understanding our existence.

We are here to evolve from a lower consciousness to a higher consciousness.

Since the message of Christianity is not true, the reason for the Bible is not valid.

More importantly, God did give us a universal revelation.

It's called the Book of Nature.

A universal God would give us a universal revelation.

The book of nature was written and published before consciousness evolved to read it.

The book of nature was written in a language that everyone could read.

The book of nature was available to everyone, in every nation, at every time.

Like a real revelation would be.