To the Christians: What would it take to convince you that the Bible is false -- the superstitious beliefs of a scientifically primitive Bronze Age culture?
To the atheists: what would it take to convince you that the Bible is true -- the divinely inspired Word of the Almighty Creator of the Universe?
2006-08-10 07:00:42 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it would take god or whoever the supreme being is to explain to me this clusterfvck we call religion and also explain to me why if you are real why you enjoy watching people suffer,without doing anything,and id have to know who REALLY wrote the bible,all this face to face of course,i mean,if he exists,he wouldn't mind talking face to face with his children now would he?
I'm not an atheist,just a confused nonbeliever
2006-08-10 07:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by jen 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
To the atheists: what would it take to convince you that the Bible is true -- the divinely inspired Word of the Almighty Creator of the Universe?
I'm actually agnostic but...
I would like an in depth interview with all the authors of the Bible. I want this interview in a modern day context, and I want to know how much of their predjudices are reflected in their writings, and what their source of inspiration is. Will we see them as regular Joe Schmoes who started by passing down stories that somehow got immortalized in a divine book? Or will we see a bit of divinity in them? I'd put my money on the former.
2006-08-10 07:23:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do humans wish for "GOD" to be? I think in a way, many can never see the forest if all the trees are blocking the view. So maybe there is no intelligent design in the formation of the universe? But we as humans are discovering unseen realities all the time. We can't see radio waves, but we all have cell phones, TV, radio, 300 years you'da been burned at the stake for having a walkie-talkie.
I feel there is definitely intelligence in the Universe and its BIG and it's EVERYWHERE. Take any little bitty human culture out of the billions of years that have been whizzing by, and give it a name. God, Allah, Yahweh, or simply, "Hey, dude!" it matters like a grain of sand- What matters is it is up to US to care of ourselves, God has provided all the ingredients in the physical plane to transcend to greater aspirations, such as world peace, but it is up to (again) us... y'know "free will" possibly the greatest gift- after all, we ARE the stuff of the universe, we are not separate from it.
If you believe there is nothing, you might just be preparing your images and perceived substance in your next plane of existence- made by you, for you, of you.
Oh! the question! lol!! the Bible is an interpretation by humans. God did not actually call the editors and pressman- usually when "Man" gets a hold of something in this physical world, he doesn't just muck it up, he makes it into madness. I think some of the writers of Biblical works had awesome super good intentions, for that i thank them. Unfortuantely there have also been great manipulaters who twist meanings for personal greed and gain, to them nothing is sacred and they really haven't ever felt the Universe around them. Of course when thier personal "judgement day" arrives, well then it's a bit late for them.
answer.. it's complex- yes and no... lol!
Thanks for a cool question like that, you got us all to think!!
2006-08-10 07:32:57 · answer #3 · answered by omnimog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an agnostic -- but believe your "To Atheists" question is directed at me as well.
I would respond in much the same way that a Zen Master would respond to a stupid question. I would smack you with a stick , say "Unask the question" and hope that you attained sudden enlightenment.
The question you should ask is this: "Suppose that you suddenly received irrefutable proof that the Bible is divinely inspired -- would it change the way that you act?"
The answer to that question is "No." And the reason is because I would find it impossible to honor or worship the God that is depicted in the Bible.
2006-08-10 07:31:52 · answer #4 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take a body of evidence to make me believe the Bible.
It's pretty easy to read through and see many 'superstitious beliefs of a scientifically primitive Bronze Age culture'; I mean, the world is flat and the Sun revolves around the Earth, right?
2006-08-10 07:05:39 · answer #5 · answered by Michael 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The verse below offer an insight in the hidden nature of the degree of perversion that has befallen the Original Message:
Contradictions and errors of that is being presented as the Word of God in the Bible I would like to quote the research of scholars of the Bible:
VERSES THAT CONTRADICT THEMSELVES
Genesis 6:3 and Genesis 11:11 - Life limited to 120 years?
Genesis 32:30 and Exodus 33:20 - Jacob's life was preserved?
Exodus 4:22 and Jeremiah 31:9 - Who was God's firstborn?
Numbers 23:19 and Genesis 6:6-7 - Does God repent or not?
2 Samuel 6:23 and 2 Samuel 21:8 - Did Michal have children?
2 Samuel 8:4 and 1 Chronicles 18:4 - 700 or 7000 horsemen?
2 Samuel 8:9-10 and 1 Chronicles 18:9-10 - Toi or Tou? Hadadezer or Hadarezer? Joram or Hadoram?
2 Samuel 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 19:18 - 700 or 7000 charioteers? 40,000 horsemen or footmen? Captain's name?
2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 - Who provoked David?
2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5 - 800,000 or 100,000?
2 Samuel 24:13 and 1 Chronicles 21:11-12 - 7 or 3 years?
1 Kings 4:26 and 2 Chronicles 9:25 - 40,000 or 4,000 stalls?
1 Kings 5:15-16 and 2 Chronicles 2:2 - 3300 or 3600?
1 Kings 7:26 and 2 Chronicles 4:5 - 2000 or 3000 baths?
2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chronicles 22:2 - 22 or 42 years old?
2 Kings 24:8 and 2 Chronicles 36:9 - 18 or 8 years old? 3 months or 3 months and 10 days?
Erza 2:65 and Nehemiah 7:67 - 200 or 245 singers?
Matthew 1:12 and Luke 3:27 - Who was Salathiel's father?
Matthew 1:16 and Luke 3:23 - Who was Joseph's father?
Matthew 9:18 and Mark 5:22-23 - Dead or not?
Matthew 10:5-10 and Mark 6:7-8 - Bring a staff or not?
Matthew 15:21-22 and Mark 7:24-26 - The woman was of Canaan or Greece?
Matthew 20:29-30 and Mark 10:46-47 - One or two beggars?
Matthew 21:1-2 and Mark 11:1-2 - What happened to the ***?
Matthew 26:74-75 and Mark 14:72 - Before the **** crow once or twice?
Matthew 27:5 and Acts 1:18 - How did Judas die?
John 3:16 and Psalms 2:7 - Only begotten son?
John 5:31 and John 8:14 - Was Jesus' record true or not?
VERSES THAT CONTRADICT THE TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE AND/OR THE DIVINITY OF JESUS
Exodus 33:20, John 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:16 - No one saw God.
Isaiah 42:8 - Do not praise and worship images.
Isaiah 45:1 - "Anointed" does not mean "God".
Matthew 14:23, 19:13, 26:39, 27:46, 26:42-44 - Jesus prayed.
Matthew 24:36 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Matthew 26:39 - Jesus and God had different wills.
Matthew 28:18 - All power was given to Jesus.
Mark 1:35, 6:46, 14:35-36 - Jesus prayed.
Mark 10:17-18 and Luke 18:18-19 - Jesus denied divinity.
Mark 12:28-29 - God is one.
Mark 13:32 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Mark 16:19 and Luke 22:69 - Jesus at the right hand of God.
Luke 3:21, 5:16, 6:12, 9:18, 9:28, 11:1-4, 22:41 - Jesus prayed.
Luke 4:18, 9:48, 10:16 - Jesus was from God.
Luke 7:16, 13:33, 24:18-19 - Jesus was a prophet.
Luke 10:21 - Jesus gave thanks.
Luke 23:46 - The spirit of Jesus was commended to God.
John 4:19 - Jesus was a prophet.
John 4:23-24 - Worship in spirit and truth.
John 14:28 - One was greater than the other.
John 5:19, 5:30, 7:28, 8:28 - Jesus was helpless.
John 5:20 - The Father showed the son.
John 5:30 and 6:38 - Jesus and God had different wills.
John 5:31-32 - Jesus' witness was not true.
John 6:11 and 11:41-42 - Jesus gave thanks.
John 6:32 - The Father was the provider, not the son.
John 7:29, 16:5, 16:28 - Jesus was from God.
John 7:16, 12:49, 14:24, 17:14 - Jesus' words were not his.
John 8:42 - Jesus did not come of himself.
John 10:29 - "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all."
John 14:1 - Jesus said, "...believe also in me."
John 14:16, 17:1, 17:9, 17:11, 17:15 - Jesus prayed.
John 14:31 and 15:10 - Jesus followed commands.
John 17:6-8 - "I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me."
John 20:17 - Jesus had a god.
Acts 2:22 - Jesus was "a man approved of God."
Romans 8:34 - Jesus was an intercessor.
1 Timothy 2:5 - Jesus was the mediator between God and humans.
2006-08-10 07:05:59 · answer #6 · answered by Biomimetik 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Im caught in the middle and not really sure of my faith. However, i do know religion is very much a result of faith. Those with strong enough faith will say any act that leads to descreptancies in the bible will claim the bible is saying this in a metaphorical sense, or, the devil is at work. Those who are completely athiests, if they were to hear of an act of god, it is very possible they will disregard this event and believe the event was probably skewed or some sick person's joke to get people to convert. But for me, i wont go into the whole contreversy. The way i see it, i will uphold christian ethics as they do make sense to me, however that is possibly as far as my faith will take me.
2006-08-10 07:10:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would ask, why only two choices?
I am not an atheist -- I'm a Reincarnationist and Deist who regards the bible as blatant mythology and a defamation of the true 'God'. I believe in 'God' as a much greater power than any of the deities described in any religious writings concocted by primitive men.
2006-08-10 07:12:17 · answer #8 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"To the Christians: What would it take to convince you that the Bible is false -- the superstitious beliefs of a scientifically primitive Bronze Age culture?"
Nothing can convince me that a lie is the truth. The Bible is not false, nor is it superstition. It's the documentation of a people and their quest for the one true God.
2006-08-10 07:05:14 · answer #9 · answered by gg 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
The bible would be true if it were indeed written by God. Even the Bible teacher say it was inspired by God. Inspired means close but no cigar.
Would you find painting that was claimed by experts to be inspired by Michelangelo to be valuable? Not really.
The real thing has value, imitations are not very satisfying.
2006-08-10 07:09:13 · answer #10 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As an atheist answering: For one, fewer assumptions and regulations based on literal interpretations of the bible, many of which are contradicted by other parts of the bible. Two, acceptance and equal treatment of EVERY person (regardless of sex, race, sexual orientation, political affiliation, etc.) Three, less strict, dogmatic adherence to a set of rules. Four, rational, intelligent debate based not on blind faith, but a logical progression of proveable truths.
2006-08-10 07:09:05 · answer #11 · answered by Timmy G 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋