I mean there is a book on how the world was created, and how we are like we are.there are signs for the end of the world writen in the Bible and they are coming true.the Bible was written how long ago! And the signs are coming true today,its kinda hard not to beilieve.
2006-09-26 05:35:07 · 59 answers · asked by B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think you should be surprised. Even the bible indicates that not many will see the truth. Remember, Satan is the ruler of this world and he is the cheif liar. He has effectively closed the eyes of most people. It's really frustrating when you can't make an intelligent person see that they are completly blind.
I believe. As do my wife and 2 of my 3 boys. So that's a start for me.
2006-09-26 05:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 10⤋
Actually I think the Bible is pretty hard TO believe. To get an answer to your question, you should do some research on the history of the Bible-how it came to be known as "The Bible" in the first place. Look into the history of Christianity. You can then see for yourself the many problems with believing in what is written in the Bible. As for the signs of the end of the world-that's all in your interpretation. You could apply that to basically any era of history and say there were signs of the end of the world.
What I find hard NOT to believe is scientific fact and accurate historical and archaeological records. The story of creation is a myth. It's just like any other myth. It is meant to send a particular message. Many other cultures have creation stories.
If you want to argue for the belief in God or belief in the Bible, you should educate yourself so that you can put forth a better argument.
2006-09-26 05:42:04 · answer #2 · answered by Red 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it's quite hard to believe that bible you are talking about due to all the inconsistencies and contradictions in it.
Why people don't believe in God? Maybe because the concept is meaningless and has nothing to do with reality.
There must be a lot of people who are completely turned off of God due to the amount of religious fanatics in the world, such as yourself.
I personally believe in God, but I can easily see how some people would not. I also think that the bible that you're talking about can be a way for some people to experience spiritual awakening.
However, when people start talking about the world being created literally as per the bible, well, it's sort of obvious that they are avoiding reality. It's difficult to respect that. It drives people away from the religion that the fanatic should want to bring people to.
The fact that the bible was written so long ago also can work against it. Look at how many people with their own agendas, own way of thinking, own cultural biases worked to rewrite the bible!
Of course one of the most moronic aspects of the fundamentalist Christians is that they believe that the bible is the word of God because that's what the bible says.
Anyway, it all depends on what your definiton of "God" is anyway.
2006-09-26 05:42:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
God exists... in the same way that Lady Liberty, Uncle Sam, the tooth fairy, the Geico gecko, and Santa Claus do: as characters who speak for causes. They have only the power that we humans give them, by believing in them and doing things in their name.
Billions of believers don't make something true. The earth was never flat.
But belief itself is a powerful thing. Plenty of good and evil gets done in God's name. Fellowship, community, supporting each other in good and bad times, making the world a bit better -- all these ARE real, with or without gods and demons.
Pick your favorite "false religion": its devout believers have an "excuse" for anything; nothing could convince them they're wrong. It's ultimately based on their faith, on their gut feeling, socially reinforced, that their god(s) and teachings are "the truth and the way".
That applies equally well to your "true religion".
The "signs" in the Bible are as useless and vague as in many other prophecies. Think of the Chinese fortune cookie effect: you can read truth and relevance into just about any prediction. If the Bible were really written by some omniscient being, why didn't it predict things like the Internet? Why is it contradictory, unclear, factually untrue? (Pi is 3? Archimedes could have done better!) Why does it contain so many moral atrocities? (Slavery is the tip of the iceberg.) Why isn't it any more inspired than what primitive first-century-C.E. authors could have written?
Science, that makes testable and FALSIFIABLE predictions, has done much better in answering questions such as how we are like we are. It's science that has given us tremendous improvements in health, education, happiness, well-being, and lifespan. It's this free pursuit of knowledge that will hopefully allow us to create a heaven on earth.
It's up to us.
2006-09-26 06:05:44 · answer #4 · answered by Consider This... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stand for a moment in an unbeliever's shoes. To begin with, not everybody needs to believe, or is seeking a superior force. I'm not, for instance, so I don't even read the Bible or know about it more than what I read in this site. Besides, if you are interested in the Bible, you will probably see signs of it where they are not, or where those 'signs' can be interpreted in a very different way if you don't believe in God.
It's like the zodiac. It's made up with very general statements. Some of them do 'come true', so it would be 'hard not to believe'. But that doesn't mean the zodiac IS true.
Also the lottery works like that. They say (at least, here in Argentina) that according to what you dreamt of, you should buy a particular lottery number. And there is always someone who will say that doing this, he won. Well, yes. But for each person who says this, there are thousands who have never experienced that. So, those 'signs' (in this case, the dream') are only chance happenings. Here we say that 'even a broken watch tells you the right time, twice a day'... Well, that's from the time of analogic watches, anyway.
Or let me put it a different way. Think of something you are not interested in. I don't know, maybe sports, or cinema, or a particular type of music, etc. Those who ARE interested in that field -and there always will be some- will say they cannot believe why others are not. But you are just not interested. So, what can you do about it.
Of course, the 'difference' some people claim is that your salvation is at stake. But again, I'm asking you to see it from an unbeliever's viewpoint. According to unbelievers, your salvation is not at stake, because unbelievers just don't believe in anything connected with God. Not in the Bible, not in the power of mass, not in salvation, not in anything. From that point of view, it is 'kinda hard TO believe'.
2006-09-26 05:50:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can't figure out why so many people do believe in something for which there is no scientific proof. The bible was written by human beings many centuries after the fact, and translated, usually poorly, many times. Everything in it is pretty much open to interpretation and can be made to fit almost any situation. According to the bible, the world is only aboout 4,000 years old, yet carbon dating has shown us that number is off by millions of years. Predictions for the end of the world have been made many times, yet it's still here. Or maybe not, but now we're talking existentialism.
2006-09-26 05:41:26 · answer #6 · answered by fyrfly 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The book wasn't around when the world was created as I know it there were no eyewitness accounts so it's no more valid than the cave drawings, and there were even civilizations before it was around, so why shouldn't we believe them, they prayed to numerous gods, to spirits and monsters. They predate your book, is time of creations the only claim to validity? As for how we are like we are i could write a book on that today, many other have since then, Marx, Freud etc. and they weren't through divine knowledge, does simply saying the word "god" make it unimpeacheable? Were's the proof of this above any other reason?
As for the end of the world they seem pretty ambiguous to me. I havn't witnessed a second coming, the raining down of fire or brimstone and the things like drought, famine and such have been on a lot longer, and we're still here. Nostradamus hit more nails on the head than the bible, and to find his words true you have to reverse them, look up a thesaurus and even then it only works for "after" they happen.
As to your original question, there are so many of us because we are excercising our freedom of beleif that previous would have got us hanged or burned in previous centuries for professing and we place our lives in our own hands, our morality in our own futures and the future of mankind, and reason the world through our own devices and the means available to us. We are taking control, of ourselves, of the world, of what we are beholden to, I will not be beholden to a spirit, by the end I will not have done good things to appease another, but myself and those i hold close.
2006-09-26 05:45:39 · answer #7 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The muslim end time prophecies are coming true, the hindu change of time prophecies are coming true, all the prophecies are coming true.
The writers weren't foretelling the future, they stated the obvious -- humans suck so there'll always be poison, war, and sickness. They were also observant that human societies tend to follow cycles.
I once saw a Biblical prophecy site that showed how ten particular prophecies had come true. Weird thing was, they each listed no fewer than 3 times each they were fulfilled over the past 2000 years. Those aren't prophecies, those are statement of natural human social cycles.
In short, show me one prophecy in your holy book that no other holy book predicts, has happened and has happened only ONCE, and you'll have my interest.
2006-09-26 05:41:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What are you on about? Yes, there is a book about how the world was apparently created. There's also many textbooks explaining the Big Bang. Science explains everything much better than religion. Also, what signs for the end of the world were written in the bible and are coming true today?
2006-09-26 05:37:09 · answer #9 · answered by Jethro 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Satanic Bible,The Koran,The Torah were all also written.As was The Cat in the Hat,Da Vinci Code,Conan....etc...Do you believe everything that is written.I warn you and implore you not to! The Bible is just another book written by men.Imperfect,sinning men! Just the way we are supossed to be! Religion has really screwed up alot of peoples belief in God because of it's many,many mistakes and hypocrites and straight up fairy tales!!! You don't need relgious dogma to believe in God either!!!!!
2006-09-26 05:52:08 · answer #10 · answered by drokk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I often wonder the same thing. I noticed many people saying the Bible is just a book. They say why believe it any more than any other book? My response it that there is historical research to prove many of the stories of the Bible. Before anyone dismisses the Bible as just a book, I would suggest a bit of research. It's worth it just to be sure. Second I suggest watching Jack Van Empy. The main reason people don't believe is the devil. All Christians can be is continue to serve God and fulfill the great comission. God made us with freewill to decide what to believe. I look at it this way: people who don't believe in God and are wrong lose everything at death. Those of us who have excepted the Lord as Savior have nothing to lose if we are wrong.
2006-09-26 05:51:19 · answer #11 · answered by bamagrits84 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋