Why is it that we believe everything we are told in history class, and close to nothing we are told in church?

Question

We can easily be told that George Washington was the first president of the USA and believe it. But if we are told that God created all of existence we do not understand it (since evolution is so much more logical). How do we really know anything is true without seeing it for ourselves. We must all believe something in our lives, wether it be a "fact" from a textbook, or a "fact" from the bible. Why don't we just accept the bible for what it is?- the first textbook. Why don't we question the "facts" we are taught in school?

Answer 1

Because one of them follows the general guidelines of scientific theory and one of them doesn't. One of them can be backed up by thousands of documents of supporting evidence, the other ends with "faith" as the answer. Trying to equate the two is silly.

Answer 2

Ah, but you should question the "facts" you're taught in school like you question anything else. After all, history is written by the victor or the ones in the popular majority. They want their factions to appear in the best light, more often than not. And there are MANY things that are left out, either to make people look better or to keep others from questioning actions deeply. For instance, how many of us are taught in school that the Japanese committed attrocities in China and North Korea during WWII? I know I wasn't. Yet it's true. Only we're not allies with the Chinese, we're now allies with the Japanese because they're not communists, so we're not going to admit in textbooks what actually happened until the whole world is openly acknowledging it.

I think that the same goes for the Bible. No matter what Christians may say, it was written by men. Perhaps they were inspired by their god, and perhaps it was the first bit of manipulative fiction to be written down and actually survive the ages. Whatever, it's still fallible in that humans wrote it down and have translated it from one language to another over the centuries, often times with inaccuracies.

Like the verse, "Suffer not a witch to live," in the original text was "Suffer not a POISONER to live."

Answer 3

Because the bible was written by many people, many many years ago, and the "facts" sometimes contradict themselves. The bible is a more dubious source of information. Most of what we are taught in school is more empirically ascertained.

And I assume you're being sarcastic when you say "evolution is so much more logical." Uh...it is. What sounds more ridiculous...that we just suddenly appeared, or that there was an actual, logical process that formed us? If you say the latter, then I seriously question your intelligence.

That, and not everyone's Christian, or even religious. So isn't it a little vain to assume that the bible is the only "right" source? Wouldn't it make you MORE of a sheep to simply go along with what the bible says and not question IT? Shouldn't more people just think for themselves?

And what makes you think we don't question what we are taught in school?

Answer 4

I constantly question the history of my country, I've found accounts that contradict the "official" history. But you won't go to hell if you believe either one, you know. The key word is "plausible". History is based on plausible accounts, and yet they could be flawed. Now "sacred text books", that's a different story.

Why accept the bible as the first text book? Why not the vedas? They are older. Why not the torah instead? Why not the avestas? Why don't you accept all of them as "history", even if the parts where they contradict each other? Do you see people worshiping the constitution as a sacred text? Do they pray to Washington for salvation?

The holy books aren't plausible stories, they are believed only through faith, that's why they do not belong to "history".

I question both, history and religion.

Answer 5

Because socialists etc who have basically taken over our educative "leadership" and hierarchies in the world know that if they start brainwashing at a young age, children will with constant 'nurturing and 'leading' in their doctrines, eventually assume their thinking and school backgrounds into their daily lives and general thinking.
Scripture says,
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it"

But, of course, the Adversary knows that what is 'good for the goose is good for the gander'.

Some of his doctrine is quite firmly implanted into the general doctrine of the World's formal learning institutions.
Evolution is the most obvious and perhaps most classical example I can think of ... but really, the vast proportion of social doctrine and pro-feminist garbage that is dispensed is also absorbing and encompassing the understanding and free thinking of our youth today even more so ... but people haven't really understood the destructive power of this more philosophical and anti-religious Indoctrination as much as they can more easily see the garbage that is Evolution of the Species!

So, day after day for many hours, year after drudging year, education departments ensure the Brainwashing of our little ones right from some of their earliest years!!!!
I have even had pre-school teachers tell me openly that this is what they preach even there!
Their garbage, though, is also so Boring to young people!!!
But they dis[ense it nevertheless; and then wonder why they have difficulty simply keeping kids occupied and happy at school!!!

Most Importantly, It is literally GROSSLY SINFUL ... and they will all have to stand powerfully guilty before their Maker one day and have to look upon His countenance in their GRIEVIOUS sin before Him and His children.

Answer 6

The bible is not the first textbook. Textbooks in school are facts written down from events that can be proven to have happened. You cannot logically prove everything in the bible.

Answer 7

Belief in history has it's proofs. Belief in religion requires intellectual dishonesty, otherwise known as "faith". Faith is always required of those things that can never stand on their own merits making it a neutral supplement for the mind, and the brain is how the mind works. Once the brain has the concept it can do magical things like Gods, suffering messiahs, bigfoot, ufo's etc etc. Some of the most unsuccessful religions in human religious culture are with Gods that had to much detail. Leaving out the fine details makes it neutral for all of us, it becomes the security blanket of double standard interpretation.

Answer 8

simply because we do have some writing on Washington while for bible we have nothing. Remeber that scriptures were done ( 1st one) 30 years after crist death. and then 300 years later Church decide what goes to bible 397 AC. If you read the scriptures yoru self not the bible you will find way more interesting things. That's why not everything was included.

Answer 9

Most history for the last approx. 500 years is documented. Anything as old as the Bible is questionable in my opinion be it Greek history Roman history or the Bible. Something most likely is through, the only question is what?

Answer 10

People are stupid and believe what ever they are told, therefore, they are called "sheeple" Very few people will research anything for themselves.
George Washington was the first President under the US constitution not the first President of the USA.

Answer 11

Because religion is mythology. It has NO bearing on the real world.
The stories are there to pass along ideals of morality. However, since morality is a subjective concept, it doesn't do such a good job.
Science, history, mathematics, can all be proven.
Myth however abhors proof as it shatters the myth.