What in your life has given you faith in the bible, or what in life has made you believe the bible isn't true

Question

Any religion or bible I am talking about, basically I just want to know why you do or do not consider the bible (any one) real, or man made.

Answer 1

I use to be an Atheist, but then I started going through some hard time, and went to a christian group home, which did 2 things for me, 1 good and 1 bad. The bad thing was that they basically forced religion on me, I had to go to church or else I would loose prviledges. I found alot of people in church to be hypocrits and very greedy. The good thing was that I did find god, and realized he was there, my life was heading in a bad direction and he did save me. I am torn on religion do belive in god, and jesus, allthough I do question some things in the bible, which is fine because I beleive I do have a personal relationship with god and he understands me

Answer 2

I was born a Christian and brought up a Christian. However, now that I can make my own decisions I consider the Bible just to be a Christian book. The teachings, right and wrong and all make sense. But I do not believe in Heaven or Hell and all that. Seems the Bible, like many religious teachings, have a lot of hooey mixed in. Just lead a good life - that's all. No one really knows what comes after.

Answer 3

Watching life for over 20 years I came to the conclusion after studying various religions and the natural world that 1) There is a God but God didn't care at all about us. 2) Religion was one of the worst things humanity has invented and 3) All books of religion are written by humans and hence subject to human vanity, greed, fallibility and plain ol exaggeration to explain the world around us.

Another 10+ years later I watched and listened and changed my opinion. 1) There is a God and God is waiting patiently, but off to the side to avoid making us puppets, for humanity to rise to it's full potential and search+raise it's understanding of the world enough to perceive God itself. 2) Humanity in thinking that it is God's will has done the opposite and tries to bury all new knowledge in an attempt to force God to come and pick us up as a child throws a tantrum to get it's own way. 3) a book on religion is not worth the paper it is printed on since as life changes so do the dictates of right vs wrong. 4) If people stopped reading a book as if it magically appeared from the sky then there would be a lot more understanding and growth in the human race. 5) ORGANIZED religion is the worst thing humanity has ever invented

Answer 4

I was visiting a friend and he was real cool and said do you know Jesus? No. well go inside your room and pray for God to open your heart. Read the bible and start with the begining. I pray and with swiftness, I felt the anointing of the spirit and have been on fire for god ever since. The bible is an outline on how the world works and how to live a good life with God. Jesus is his son and came in the flesh to save mankind because the law was only being broken and the middle east was doing whatever pleased them. Just like today...... But God never changes.

Answer 5

As a rational human being, I don't believe the Bible a the word of God. It's more like Aesop's fables, stories told to teach us lessons on life. Events included in the Bible did happen, so you can't say that the entire thing is untrue.

Answer 6

43 years study, reading and doing the math. I do believe it. The word says to the average person it is foolishness, but the average person is foolish [ all Gen.9:21 ],
from birth and filled with imaginations, Gal.5:22,23 we must mature and separate fact from all else Gal.5:19-21; we must have mind over matter, WHAT IS GOD SAYING?

HISTORY: We have to depend on man to get world history correct. I am going to take the word of God over them. I can not fine a flaw in it, neither did Exodus Decoded documentary. Some of mans math, does harmonize with bible.

What in life makes me believe? 2Tim.3:1-7; Matt.10:34-38; The people now and all the way through the bible, they do not act like we are trespassing on soil we did not create and should give thanks to the source it came from.

My youth started in religion, I have studied religion and ask why 1000 to have to study.
Jesus came to save the world and not condemn it. John 12:47,48 the world will be judged by the word and learn what Jesus died for John 3:16; His Father allowed it, Heb.9:14,15; Heb.2:9,14,16 he has a right to destroy Satan, 1Cor.22-28,51-53; He has the right to destroy death, 2 Pet.3:13 he has the right to make all as perfect as it was before Eden, he has a right to take thousands to hew heavenly Jerusalem to be with him as priest over the billions that are saved for the new earth. Rev.21:1-5,9,10,21-27; Heb.12:22-24; Rev.3:12;

Answer 7

I'm 31 years old and finally found Jesus when I discovered the Holy Eucharist. I was a protestant my entire life before that, and was on a desperate search for Him. My family had gone through incredibly hard times, trying to find our way between this church and that. I've spent countless days and nights trying to study and read on my own, research the internet, read the bible, pray, but nothing would come together. I was either confused about this or uncertain about that, always trying to make the pieces fit together and only managing one or two here and there.

One Sunday God gave me a wonder gift a particular Easter in 2004. I had gone to a Catholic Mass with my parents. Toward the middle of the mass, I watched the priest line up four people who were being newly confirmed. I had never seen this before. What amazed me was when I saw him lay his hands on their heads, and suddenly I remembered how I had read about that in the bible, in the book of Acts. The apostles were spreading the good news, and as they converted thousands, they would baptize them, and lay their hands on them. I was blown away.

When mass ended, I asked the priest if they had any adult classes that I could attend. He was quite surprised to learn that I had never been confirmed. He introduced me to the man who led the classes, and I was greeted by a complete stranger with the biggest hug (which I wasn't expecting).

Nine long months later, that November, I enrolled in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults class (RCIA) along with my father. For six long months we studied. It was like being in a cacoon, protected by God while He taught me and guided me. I learned things about Him and the Faith and His Church that I'd never known before. My heart converted when one night, we were given a lesson on the Holy Eucharist. My teacher showed us John chapter 6, where Jesus began to teach of the sacred gift of His Body and Blood.

At first I didn't get it. I had to go home that night to ponder what I'd learned. I had found a quiet place where my thoughts could settle, and again examined that chapter in my mind. It was like the gentle hand of the Holy Spirit touched me, and I suddenly realized what had happened that day when Jesus taught about the Holy Eucharist.

The religious leaders and many of Jesus' own disciples had gotten angry with Jesus, say that His sayings were "absurd" and "hard to endure", and many left that day. I realized that they would have had no reason to get angry if Jesus would have only been talking about a symbol of Himself, and not His actual holy flesh.

I cried that night, sang and danced and cried some more. I had finally found Him.

Today life is nothing but light. I'm still learning a lot and sorting through a lot of things, but I have the Faith now, and I have Him, and His Church. He is the most precious to me.

I hope this helps. God bless.

Answer 8

I grew up Unitarian and studied Science in school.

Not usually bible belt sorts of activities.

Also, they REALLY mistreated scientists like Galileo and Bruno just for saying what they beleived was true. The problem was, it WAS true, and didn't agree with te Bible. AT the time anything true HAD to agree with the Bible. Thank God it no longer does, and thank God for protecting us from the fundamentalists.

Answer 9

I´m an atheist because:
Contradictions in the bible.
Impossibility for any minister to give facts.
Relative impunity for unethical and pedophile ministers.
Holy inquisition
Wars caused by religious followers and sanctioned by Holy Sees
Corruption and murders and degenerate attitudes in high priests and popes (Borgia)
Murder of Hypatia (last curator of Alexandria´s library) by order of St Cyril.
Money laundering by the Vatican (Nazi gold is a good example, it was stolen from the jews)
Conquista of the americas in the name of God and systematic destruction of Aztec and Mexicas civilization.
Witch Hunt (Malleus Maleficum)
Indulgences
Tithe as a fraud
Should I go on?
Does all this seem holy to you?

Answer 10

Well the bible is true in that it was created. But as for the words, let's face it, it's boring to read.

Hence anything boring isn't all that interesting to me or believeable to me to begin with.

It's not to say that it probably has good morals preached in it like "don't kill" or "do not have sex with your cyberbuddy's girlfriend" and "don't smack someone in the guts if you don't like to be smacked in the guts" but, why be forced to know common sense like this by reading a boring, long, redundant book?