OK I've had it! What are some good reasons to stop believing in the Bible?

Question

After all these years, I came to the conclusion that I don't want to keep reading a book written by humans like me.

Please share your reasons why I should not believe in the Bible anymore.

I'm not asking to help me make any decisions here. I am asking to SHARE your opinions of why -anyone- should not believe in it. Not just me.

I've been reading it since I as a kid when my parents forced me to go to Sunday school. Now that I'm grown I find many contradictions in it. I find many things that lack common sense. Sure I've always been told that the bible needs interpretation and can't take everything literarily. But still, even with the "explanations" that many ministers have shared with me, I've found out that they don't even agree among them to what certain things mean. I feel like the bible has confused the masses rather than bringing them together.

How can I remain pure to something that has been under the pen of so many sinners like me? Too many translations. So many versions. Too many human hands across too many hundreds of years. Something just doesn't seem right. That is the reason why I want to know what other people think.

Answer 1

The bible is a work of fiction so treat it as you would any other book of fiction.But there are thousands of fiction books much better written, try some.

Answer 2

Hmm ... I would say, consider what a linguistic hodgepodge it is...

There is the Old Testament ...original Torah in Hebrew ... then handled by the Septuagent ...after councils of Nice began initiating the "canonization" process.. so in some cases into Greek ... and then Latin ... before once again we get to the Guttenburg press ... and versions become finally anglicised and so forth ...

Then the New Testament ... no Hebrew originals ... usually Coptic Greek originals ...

But personally, coming from twenty years of Semitic language studies ... Including Arabic and Hebrew ... and not being either - Jewish,Muslim, or Christian ... nor agnostic, or atheist for that matter ... personally I am amazed at what the "socalled" Christians lose in their version ... as Jesus' parables very often had much to do with the subtleties and nuances of the Hebrew alphabet ... Likewise the anglicised Old Testament loses tons of meanings and nuances that to my perceptions have led to vast historical misunderstandings ...

So ultimately, I agree with your questioning blind pieties towards something that was obcourse simply written by the fallible hands of men ... and more, I would add, how much more mistrustful should you be towards the multiple layers of fallible translaters that these "scriptures" have undergone ... Those who are "literalist Christians" think that some guiding hand of Providence(Holy Spirit) ... was guiding both the translation and canonization process ... I cannot tell you how wrong I have found them to be in this regard, over and over again ... Just by studying Torah and the New Testament, with a regard towards the culture and language in the context of which it was originally created ...

Answer 3

You should not believe in any book written thousands of years ago. Whether it is the Bible, Quran, Gita or anything else. Read everything, keep an open mind, reason and search for the truth yourself.

A lot of wars have been waged because of holy books. The pen is mighier than the sword and can be mightier that a nuclear missile if you measure the deaths from wars fought over religion.

Answer 4

Where to start?

Maybe the fact that most of the New Testament was written several decades after the death of the Christ-man? By people (no matter what you may think) who could have never have actually known the subject? Or perhaps that there's nothing the least bit original in the Bible story? ALL of it being picked-up from far, far earlier mythology?

Burst the Bubble, boy, Confront your own life. Put aside the things and ways of a child. Be free.

Answer 5

There is no reason why you should stop reading the bible. The only reason why you want to stop reading the bible because you got the wrong conclusion. Of course the bible was written by humans like you. The only difference is that the bible was writen by people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit. They were ordinary men without a doctorate degree yet you can see the beauty of literature, the figure of speech etc. Take note NO FLAWS. Don't just read it like ordinary book. Take it to heart, and listen to God as you study it and you will understand reason why you should read it more.

Answer 6

It's not a question of stopping believing, it's a question of the way you interpret it. The books comprising the bible were written by politicians and philosophers over a long period of time. As historical treatises, they reflect differing political and social events over several thousand years, and many of the stories are symbolic and allegorical, and weren't intended to be taken literally. The fundamentalist view of the bible being "The Word" came later. Sorry, it's not an answer, but rather a way of looking at things.

Answer 7

i was bought up dragged along to all sorts of different church groups.. baptist, Assemblies of God, Christain Outreach centres, Anglican.. blah blah... not saying it was all bad either , but i don't attend church these days , only for wedding and funerals ...but here's what ive come up with as an adult over the yrs .. for one adam and eve,, no one was there to tell the story of their creation in the first place... and also we're all inbred, if thats the real story.. noahs arc.. well theres no scientific evidence of that incident , tower of babylon.. come on... The bible was written by a bunch of people who expressed their opinions and such,, maybe some of it is true histroy facts,, maybe not, we will never really know.. some of it is good advice to live by, some of it is rot. I believe we come from bacteria and evolved over the yrs... but then again i do belive there is a greater being out there cause i have seen things with my own eyes that are miracles.. wether or not it is the god the bible tells of i don't know..guess some things are just not meant for our knowledge.. but then again, man has destoyed this pure earth other the yrds with inventions and such and we only use a small % of out brain, but thats another story all together..lol

Answer 8

First posted response is rigth plus let's not forget that it has been used to kill people who did not conform to the ideology of those promoting it.
The bible has many logical flaws in it. Such as the so called great flood that covered the entire earth and some how an old man was able to get all the animals in the entier world and build this great ark in less than three years time with two of his sons.

Answer 9

To become more ignorant, and forfill the devils's wishes.

Of all the books we learn from in life ans school, the Bible is the most accurate book on earth.

We take other books at face value and trust them even though there are/were far fewer orginal copies found. Poel rater beleive in one copy of a "lost" debunked book that was not written by Judas or Mary over the historical and most found book, backed by God. Strange behavior.

Answer 10

Because it's a contradiction lacking in originality and twisted from the original version by flawed translating over centuries of time. Not that I think the original version knew what it was talking about either, but that's just me.

If you analyze it logically and with your own understanding of moral principles, it starts to dawn on you that what the Bible is preaching isn't what it's practicing. No righteous God asks a person to kill their own son - that's just a tyrant. I really hated that story, and that's only the beginning of the issues that I have with it.

But, how you perceive it is up to you.

Answer 11

Because all organized religions amount to nothing more than human mind control perpetuated by religious zealots propagating their dogma around the world.

That's why.

Organized religions are the root of evil in our society. They are the NUMBER one cause of war in the world, always have been, and Class struggle is number two.

It is better to be spiritual and have a concept of one God that everyone on earth can relate to. We all share the basic fundamental values of "religious worship" but worship in our own ways proscribed by a Man Made Religion, which is only serving to separate people instead of bringing them closer together.

That's why you should not believe in the bible.

Because if you do, then you are no better than anyone else who says that THEIR way is the ONLY way to God, and if you believe in "that method" you will not be saved and you are LESS than I am, Because I know BETTER than you do. It's a slap in the face to millions of people who do not think the way you do and that is divisive, not unifying. And Unification is the basic TARGET of all organized religions they fall short of unifying anyone because they are so insular and clannish.

To put one religion over another religion that someone believes is valid only complicates the issue of "organized religion" and there being one ONE true faith on earth.

Hypocritical. Can't live your life like a Hypocrite.