To NonBelievers: Why do you not believe in the Word of God?

Answer 1

Because I've only heard the word of man.

Answer 2

Don't know about the others. But I believe the Bible does its good. However, what I don't believe is GOD. So, you can say that I may believe Jesus existed but God didn't. And religion was all made up, reinforced by the belief of God that punishes and rewards accrodingly.

For others, they probably don't believe God and they made a big decision, whatever connected to what they disbelieve, is fake. So they don't believe the whole thing.

But normally, we all don't believe in God just because there is no proof to his existence while everyone claims that HE EXISTED. Furthermore, it is already awkward enough to believe something that people wouldn't believe in the first place, I mean, how can you believe that Superman existed and he flew around saving people? No, you can't. And so there goes no-GOD.

While for what you say, Word of God, well, people already don't believe that God existed, why should they even give a damn about His so-called word? Atheist will take all these as made-up.

For me, I think all these Word of God are beneficial, just that if it were to be secularized, it would've been better accepted. Don't connect it with something unexplainably superior. That's all.

Answer 3

I am a believer in the Word of God, but I will tell you why so many do not. Because they have been told they will go to hell if they don't! It does not say that anywhere in the Bible that so called Christians can judge people. Most "Christians" do not know their Bibles and spout off what they believe to be truth. They think that so called Bible Scholars know it all yet most of them do not or will not tell you the truth of what the Bible actually says. The Bible is truthful, but man has twisted and twisted the Word until it fits their personal goals and NOT God's goals for the people. I read so many religious questions and answers on here and it makes me sick that so many do not think for themselves. No wonder so many turn from the Word with all the hypocrites trying to shove their versions down someones throat! Jesus gave us two commandments that fulfill it all. Jesus said, "Love the Lord God with all your heart and the second is like unto it, to love thy neighbor as you would love yourself." Now if everyone would put that in their hearts and truly live by it there would be no need for all the judgmental acts towards others. Christians as a group are the worst for not loving their neighbor....yet that is HIS command!

And to all those who do not feel they can believe in the Bible or trust it, please know that you can and that it is truthful if you look deep enough and learn the truth.

Answer 4

1) The burden of proof is on the believer(s).
2) The Bible contradicts itself: Matthew 1 vs. Luke 3, Jesus' genealogies. Matthew 1 lists Joseph's father as being Jacob, while Luke 3 records his father as being Heli. The argument that "Luke 3 is actually through Mary" is implausible, because it specifically says "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli." Son of Joseph. Not son of Mary.
3) The Bible contradicts science. It mentions the "firmament", which was a sphere in which the stars were placed. Had this sphere actually existed, it would have been quite an obstacle to our space program. Also, there is not one shred of evidence human beings were "created" from dirt.
4) The Bible contradicts mathematics. 1 Kings 7:23 says "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his hight was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass round about." According to that verse, the value of pi is 3.00, whereas the true value of pi a 3.14..... that goes on for infinity.
5) The Bible contradicts history. Ancient Egyptian inscriptions record the culture of Egyptian history. The inscriptions show no record of the culture ever being interrupted by any Biblical flood, as the record go beyond the time of the Flood as stated by Biblical historians and scholars.
6) The only place the Bible is called the inspired word of God is the Bible itself.
7) Given these circumstances, I have feel no need to follow Christianity.

Answer 5

By "The Word of God," I assume you mean the Bible. Feel free to correct me if that is an incorrect assumption. There are many things in the Bible which just don't make good sense. Allow me to explain. The following are claims made by the Bible and supported by well-known and/or well documented Biblical apologists. Sources provided.

1) The Noaic flood was global and killed everyone except Noah's family on the ark.
2) Noah spoke Hebrew.
3) Tower of Babel mixing of languages occurred 102 years after the flood. This is the least reliable "fact" here, but even if it is not precise, it is in the ballpark. I don't think you can make a claim for anything as much as 200 years after.
4) Prior to the mixing of the languages, everybody spoke the same language.
5) The flood can be dated to 2304 BC +/- 11 years
6) The earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphics are from the Palermo Stone engraved toward the end of the 5th dynasty (25th century BC) and details the reigns of the first Egyptian kings
7) Sumerian cuneforms have been dated to 3300-3200 BC and don't correspond to Hebrew or Egyptian.

So we have at least three different languages prior to the flood when there should have been only one. Of course this is just the evidence as supplied by Biblical apologists. One can also simply look at the way languages develop over time and make the logical assumption that this story was a parable meant to calm the hubris of those who wanted to build grandiose structures against the wishes of their elders. Keep in mind no such measure was undertaken when man went to the moon -- slightly higher than the Tower of Babel. Nothing happened when we sent probes out to the outer regions of the solar system and beyond or landed a rover on Mars.

Why would God thwart an effort to build a tower but do nothing for these other much more grandiose skyward ventures?

The dates cited for the most part have other dates listed on different sites so using a different combination of sources might produce a result that erases the discrepancies. I will leave that to you to demonstrate.

This was a discrepancy I thought of on my own so it hasn't been tested against a battery of apologists yet. There is one argument that would render it an invalid argument, but most Christians don't buy it, so I will leave it to you to come up with one that makes you happy.

One other problem I discovered after a few minutes of pondering the above and if other similar problems existed has to do with the temptation of Christ. Leaving the OT and into the opening of the NT, in Matthew 4 we have satan taking Christ to the top of a mountain, showing him all the kingdoms of the world and telling him they could all be his.

Matthew 4:8 "...the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;"

All the kingdoms of the world at that time included China and the Mayan Empire. Written artifacts in both empires are dated earlier than the birth of Jesus. Of course the Egyptian and Roman Empires of the time were well known. The problem is, no mountain, no matter how high, could have offered a view of all the kingdoms listed here at the same time due to the curvature of the earth. If they were going to use supernatural means to view these kingdoms, there would have been no need to ascend a mountain first. The reason for this oversight to me is obvious. The author was not aware of the Chinese or Mayan empires.

Okay, now all of this relies on the Bible. Let's look at something that does not. Ask yourself first if you agree with the following...
- God loves us
- God is omniscient
- God is omnipotent
- God is omnipresent
- God wants us to live life eternal
- God created everything in the universe

So far so good?
Now tell me...

Why would God create evil and other obstacles to our eternal life if he loves us and has/had the power to create any sort of universe he wanted? I don't want to hear about how it is akin to a parent guiding us and wanting us to be happy and having to let us experience pain. Parents don't have the power to eradicate pain, suffering and evil. God supposedly does, yet he refuses. Therefore, he either does not exist as believed or he isn't as loving as he is made out to be.

Think of it this way. You're a parent and you leave a note on the kitchen table telling your daughter to burn her hand on the stove before you get home or you will kill her. You type the note so she can't verify it is actually from you.

A reasonable daughter would doubt the note was from you and a loving parent would never put their daughter through that. Likewise, a reasonable person would not believe the Bible which has many implausible stories. They would refuse to stone their child to death because they did not honor mom and dad. And a loving God would not expect people to follow such an ambiguous, badly translated, piece of literature when even Bible scholars can't agree on much of what it conveys.

That, is why I don't believe the Word of God. Well, it is a small sample of why.

Oh, and if you still don't understand, let me put it this way. When you understand why you reject all other religions on earth, you will understand why I reject yours.

Answer 6

Because there is no proof that one ever existed. We are just supposed to blindly accept the words of a primitive civilization that believed that slavery was okay, and encouraged the killing of adulterous women and homosexual men.

And don't say the fact there is a universe is proof. That is like Middle Age Christians claiming the sun revolved around the earth because God made us the center of the universe. Just because we don't currently understand it, does not mean there is no other possibility.

Answer 7

Personally,I believe in the Word of God.I get involved in it.I sit in a bean bag with my candlelight and invite the Creator Himself to send His spirit down upon my mind and heart to read it with me.I know it sounds crazy but He literally sits next to me most times,on my left always.
Non-believers do not attempt to read the Bible because they have usually looked through it wanting to know a Higher place and a Salvation but always find it too strangely written to read compared to todays authors.It says in the Bible that the Word is held secretly until the end times then all will be revealed.It needs readers to be curious enough to wonder on the poetic ways and parables,enough that if asking of God to interpret with them they become prophets and can understand the meanings.Non-believers do not know to ask and even if they do they do not ask with FAITH enough.When Faith is not at a certain level,they will not listen with the intelligence enough to interpret.Sometimes people say they have Faith to believe that there is a God but cannot understand how exactly to listen.This frustrates the reader so they close the book and call it junk when actually it's too confusing to them.It is oldly written.It's written for all of us but few can really truly say the interpretations exactly right to explain why the bible pages burn for some.

Answer 8

Because if you believe in what religion says, the world can not be older than say... 10,000 years old. Yet science has proved that there are fossils of humanoid skeletons that are at least that old. rocks and other fossils of the dinosaurs that we know are much older. billions of years older. billions. now if you don't believe in science, then get off the computer your on, stop driving your car and using every other form of technology that is based on science.
Now I'm not saying that the ideals put forth by religion are wrong, quite the contrary. i believe that everyone can get behind being good to your fellow man, not stealing, killing and hurting and taking care of the world around you. but to do so under the premise that your imaginary friend says you will burn forever if you don't is kind of........... spooky.

Answer 9

Because there IS NO 'Word of God'.

I am offended by stupidity, willful ignorance and self delusion... which pretty much sums up the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). It offends me to know that three-quarters of the population of the USA are infected with some sort of insidious mental virus that leads them to the insane certainty that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of a bunch of ignorant Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about fundamental aspects of existence and reality. It offends me that so many people dwell a delusional reality consisting of an imaginary magical universe which contains a 6,000 year-old earth and heaven, a solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth), talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, a shepherd staff that turns into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, conception by a ghost, people raised from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting seas, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from a dust bunny and a rib, a magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush... and ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.

In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass for the loony.

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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Answer 10

I just have no need to believe in a deity, I guess. As for the "Word of God" - the words of god I've read just don't seem believable, whether its the words of Shiva, Jehovah, Allah, or the Buddha.

Answer 11

There are many reasons. I believe the Word of God is constricting and does not allow us to be as accepting of other cultures as I would want to be. I also believe a lot in science. And really, I just disagree a lot with it so it wouldn't really have worked for me.