How can you disbelieve?

Question

Non-Believers:
How are you so confident in disbelieving Jesus? Humans have limitation of knowledge and limited brain-power. How dare you
disbelieve Christianity with your tiny-winny knowledge and logic?

Answer 1

i never said i don't believe that jesus existed. i'm sure he did. i said i don't believe everything the bible says

Answer 2

First of all, let's talk about the real subject. Jesus is not here to be believed nor disbelieved. What you are asking is how can we disbelieve the stories others have told about Jesus.

The short answer is that there is nothing in our experience with human beings on this planet that would make the supernatural parts of the stories about Jesus plausible. If you wouldn't want a first century doctor performing your operation, then why would you find a first century theologian any more sophisticated or knowledgeable?

Next, many believers simply turn a blind eye to the political and other motivations of the writers of the gospels. And turn a further blind eye to the same political and economic motivations within the Roman Catholic church which selected the particular gospels which compose the New Testament. There were many more gospels written than the few included in the anthology we call the Bible.

Using your own acknowledged point regarding the limitations of human knowledge how can you possibly be willing to take at face value a book written millenia ago by writers who lacked the benefits of even the most rudimentary scientific knowledge? They had not even discovered the simple astronomical principle that the Earth orbits the Sun rather that the other way round.

As adults we are amused at some of the beliefs that children hold and some of their theories as to how things work. We know, that as they mature and their knowledge grows, they will shed most of these illogical and nonsensical ideas.

The parable of the ham:

The writers of a cook book were curious about the instructions given by a contributor that called for the end of a canned ham to be cut off before cooking. They questioned the woman and found that the only explanation was that her mother had always done it. Questioning the mother, they got the same response and so tracked down the grandmother. The grandmother explained that a standard canned ham was a little to long to fit in the pan she had and so, rather that buy a new pan, she simply cut off the end of the ham before putting it in the pan. Even though neither of the other women had the same problem, they continued the practice, attributing the trimming to some mysterious unknown benefit rather than question the practice.

Thus ends the lesson.

Unfortunately, most human beings don't seek the truth. They seek reassurance. Madison Avenue research tells us that people accept most readily messages that tend to re-enforce what they already believe to be true and tend to reject others. Logic and the scientific method are the best tools we have to sort out the true from the false. Healthy skepticism is a good thing.

Interestingly enough, the Bible contains the following: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." ‑ 1 Corinthians 13:11 How is it that when we come to so much of the world we do this, but when approaching religion, we put away logic, knowledge and experience and blindly accept what others have accepted and purported to be true, despite any evidence of its validity.

Answer 3

My tiny-winny knowledge and logic says that any blessings or tragedies I have encountered have been of an earthly origin. I have read the bible and had many discussions with "Christians", and have noted the same thing over and over--followers of Christ are narrow-minded bigots who reject anything or anybody who disputes their mythos (no matter HOW much factual proof is presented) as being evil or doomed to hell. I can not see how a human sacrifice (Jesus) can save my soul. Besides that, how can I believe the words of a man when his own disciples went out of their way to bend his words to mean whatever they felt at the moment? By the way, WHY is mankind's brain-power limited? We have a lot more brain at our disposal than we currently use. perhaps if people spent more time using their brains rather than trying to find some deity to do any brain-work FOR them we were be far more advanced than we are and the world would not have to suffer our childish temper-tantrums as much.

Answer 4

Common sense something you obviously don't have, I do not think any one disbelieves in Jesus the Man, it is your own tiny-Winny lack of knowledge logic and very limited brain-power that gets in your way and you simply can not handle the truth, all you have to do is ask David Koreshes followers they still think he was the Messiah from God and still wait for a new one to arrive, no it is not our disbelief that bothers you it is our Knowledge our brain power and common sense, we seek knowledge and truth by question something most Christians would not dare do.

Answer 5

How are you so confident in desbelieving Zeus? Humans have limitation of knowledge and limited brain power. How dare you disbelieve Greek Mythology with your tiny-winny knowledge and logic?

I'm sorry, was that supposed to be a logical argument?

Answer 6

Why don't you believe in:

Zeus?
Osirus?
Allah?
Krishna?
Native American Gods?
Hindu Gods?
Flying Spagetti Monster?
Easter Bunny?
Santa Claus?
Unicorns?

Could it be becaue you use your tiny-winny knowledge and logic to determine it is unreasonable to suppose they exist?

I am not confident in the sense I am arrogant. Rather, I am confident that in my understanding of all the facts (historicity of the bible, who the authors were (or weren't), bible inconsistancies, immoral behavior being praised or conducted by god, slavery endorsed, mysogony supported, etc) that I have determined that it is highly, highly unlikely this deity existed. Even moreso, if that deity (Yahweh/Jesus) exists, it is a hateful and mean God I have no interest in worshiping.

Answer 7

Because it's an obvious man made design. I'm sorry your crappy stories don't add up to anything believeable or work with any conventional knowledge. And that's like me asking how you presume to not worship the all powerful Pete, you have no idea why you should so you never would. As soon as you consider Zues as just as likely as your God.... well then I still wonn't believe any of it.

Answer 8

How dare you think that Christianity is the only way. My opinion is that it is good to expand my tiny-winny knowledge and logic.

Answer 9

How are you so confident in believing Jesus?

You have no proof he existed, you have no proof he is god incarnate, you have no proof god exists, you have no proof your religion is more valid than any other.

It is because human knowledge is so limited that I do not pretend to know that a god or gods exist, and I do not pretend to know all the answers.

I only believe in what is most probable. And as far as explanations for existence, god is near the bottom of the list.

Answer 10

A lack of belief seems to me to be the default position. Can you honestly claim that if someone grew up without Christians around them, it might occur to them to wonder if some perfect dude got killed to save the rest of us from our iniquity? Maybe you can—but that seems foolish to me. The reason I don't believe is because I've never seen anything that might cause me to -suspect- there to be a god. And if there's nothing to point toward the existence of a god, why should I believe a man who claims to be his son?

Logic, knowledge, and reason are the things that make us humans.

Answer 11

I don't disbelieve that he existed, a do believe a man named Jesus lived, I acknowledge that there is Christianity. However I was given free will by the creator to choose my path and my path is not with Christianity. Christians follow the teachings of a Jewish Rabbi, how crazy is that?

"I affirm your right to act like a moron, and I promise I will not hold it againsts real christians, in fact, I forgive you."