2006-09-02 07:19:57 · 19 answers · asked by klzplaya 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't have the time or inclination to answer this, but take a look at the references web site. It has some great answers for those who are always looking for answers.
2006-09-02 07:24:13 · answer #1 · answered by Duncarin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First i have to figure out what this question means? I believe there is a large compilation of books that people call the bible. It exists, it's left in motel rooms all the time.
Now there are several different translations and editions of this text and while most are alike enough for us not to quibble over I should know if you are one of these people who only accept your Bible as The Bible. If it's OK with you if we are going to get into a quote war let's use The new American bible because that's the one I have bookmarked.
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/
Now what do you mean by "believe" or "believe in" if you mean something else than the physical existence of this group of texts?
I can't answer your question until i know what you mean.
2006-09-02 07:30:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that God, Who is incomprehensible; speaks by way of man. It is a book, written by men. Some of it is entertaining, some of it gives very good paths to follow; some of it is just bizarre; but it is still just a book written by men. I don't believe in cook books either, but I'll use one if need arises. Same as the Bible. Some of the stuff too, my goodness! And the way that faith and special interpretations must be applied to make it believable. I live in the now, pretty hard to get burnt up these days; at least in my neck of the woods. I don't fear death for being heretic, so I don't have to profess a falsehood to survive. That's freedom, freedom from all that was. I thank God for that, not a book.
2006-09-02 07:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that Jesus, son of Mary and Joseph, is in fact god. If I do not believe Jesus is god, how can I possibly believe in the bible? Also...
The bible is loaded with contradictions. How can this be the so called word of god if in one breath you are told "an eye for an eye" then in the next, "turn the other cheek." It's frankly a mess. From Genesis, the beginning, where Cain is exiled to the land of Nod where he finds a wife (did someone pull off another creation in the next county?), to John's insane fever dream in Revelations, this confusing mess simply cannot be the word of any higher power.
2006-09-02 07:28:00 · answer #4 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone believes in the Bible. Its one of the oldest books ever written. All are aware of this fact.
I think what you meant to say was, "if you don't believe that the Bible is the true Word of God, tell me why you don't".
Does that make better sense to you now?
A little advise friend. Don't be concerned about the beliefs of other people. All have a right to make a choice. Whatever there choice it is not for you to criticize them.
If they want to hear the truth, they will ask you. Always be prepared to give a true and concise answer. Most know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and has given His life for them. They must choose on their own.><>
2006-09-02 07:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by CEM 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I feel Christianity makes for a nice story, but the real truth is in seeking enlightment and grace from the One Absolute Truth - At the holy feet of the Invisible Pink Unicorn (PBUH)
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
Check out the sources and you shall never need a bible again...
2006-09-02 07:34:48 · answer #6 · answered by Innervoice 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't want to invaldiate "made up" things here. I just think it's a big story. Tho it is sometimes interesting, it doesn't resonate with me as far as staying true to my limitless potential. I'm not at all about guilt, something I think the Bible fosters in people at times. I've also had different experiences of GOD.
2006-09-02 07:25:02 · answer #7 · answered by Michelangelo Divine 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because its a book. A work of fiction. A nice story but nothing more. Everybody rips Scientology, but it's beliefs are based on the same thing that every other religion is based on. A book. Just because someone wrote something that you believe to be true, doesn't make it true.
2006-09-02 07:23:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reasons? Because 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 in 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.
It offends me that in our society, such irrational, deluded people as these are permitted to vote, procreate, and shape the minds trusting, vulnerable children.
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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
2006-09-02 07:43:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not logical, not possibly feasible.
I do believe it was written with "stories" to help guide a people.
I do not believe it was written by a higher power & I don't believe it's literal.
For example....snakes do not talk....never have, never will.
2006-09-02 07:25:11 · answer #10 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Same reason you don't think The Lord Of The Rings is real. Because it's pure fiction. Too many contradictions to even support its self.
2006-09-02 07:24:55 · answer #11 · answered by Spookshow Baby 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋