What is it about the bible, that other religions feel is a myth/fairytale?

Question

I have noticed alot of people bashing christians because they believe in the God, that speaks to us (quite a bit) through a book.
I understand that those of this world have a hard time when they aren't being self promoting and self seeking.

So tell me, is truth relative? Does it change? At what point did we have the paradigm shift from God to self (as a nation)? When did truth become a lie and falsehood the truth?

ANYONE???

Answer 1

Because they think it is too good to be true.

Saved by Grace. To have our sins covered and to be reconnected to God.

Not only that, there is the rapture, the marriage supper, etc...

How can a fairy tale come true? They are just made up.

But God said that His Word are everlasting. So that makes it true and not a fairy tale.

Answer 2

Many so-called 'truths' are relative. Some are not. 'Ice cream is good' is a relative truth. 'Food intake is currently neccessary for humans to survive' is not relative. At NO point however did 'truth become a lie and falsehood the truth'. Those so-called truths and falsehoods to which you are referring were never more than relative truths and falsehoods. Relative truths DO change. 'No individual needs a computer at home' was once 'the truth', but clearly it isn't any longer.

The Bible is a collection of stories and essays written by men who lived several hundred years after the death of Jesus of Nazareth and who maintained that the stuff they were writing was dictated to them by 'God'. Many people find this difficult or impossible to credit as a valid account, and thus you have the reason that much of the world, not just other religions, consider it to be a 'myth'.

Answer 3

My opinion.....The bible was written/compiled during a time that science was unheard of and forbidden. The religious powers wanted to maintain their control over the masses. Events in the book are told in the way that people of the time understood. Today, those "unexplained" things ARE explained, and we no longer need supernatural things like gods and angels to explain how or why something is happening.

The religious powers STILL don't want to relinquish their control of the people, so their stories of the NEED for a superperson become grander, in a effort to keep their flocks.

Does "truth change".....Well, truth is simply the way things ARE, to the best of our understanding. As we learn the REAL answers, the old "truth" does indeed change to the best of our knowledge.

"Truth" is NEVER a lie....but it CAN be a misunderstanding, caused by a lack of knowledge.

Answer 4

geeez...
So, many questions...It really makes me wonder if understand the depth to the questions you just asked. I understand that we all want simple answers to life's tough questions, but just because we want simple answers doesn't mean there really are simple answers.
Do you understand the difference between Universal Truth and our opinion of what truth is? There is an epistemological gap between the Truth and your ability to know the truth. It very well could be possible that Universal Truth is a reality, but we can never know for certain that it is...here's why: We are inside a windowless room feeling our way around in the dark...though we can come to understanding of what the room looks like on the inside, we will have NO information of what the building as whole looks like until we leave the room and look from the outside in.

Answer 5

You will have to excuse the eastern bias in this. Truth is universal AND shifting. While the Truth is constant, how we understand it and relate to it shifts.

As for the paradigm shift, I think it has a lot to do with the notion that at one point we thought we were "Right". As we obviously are a long way from that point, the logical reaction was that if we weren't "Right", we must have been "wrong". Alas our dualistic mentality if firmly entrenched. So we rejected, rather then revising. Of course, this is all cyclical, so we are more and more aware that we aren't "right" or "wrong", but just heading in a direction.

Answer 6

Nothing wrong with believing in God. I do. I just respectfully reject the psychological authority of religion.

I have no time for all of the dogma surrounding the various religions that in my opinion obscure God from our vision with divisive and contadictory information.

I also find the same psychosis is prevalent in nationalism and politics.

The book, and I'm assuming the bible in your case, is full of contradictions. I guess a Christian could believe what they choose. But more often than not it is the appointed holy man that decides for us. This removes our personal responsibility and transfers it to others who will tell us which passages of the bible are true.

Here are six examples below. Three where we are told God can be seen and three where we are told God cannot be seen. Which ones should a Christian believe?? Or is it just up to some holy guy?

God CAN be seen:
"And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my backparts." (Ex. 33:23)

"And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend." (Ex. 33:11)

"For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." (Gen. 32:30)

God CANNOT be seen:

"No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)

"And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live." (Ex. 33:20)

"Whom no man hath seen nor can see." (1 Tim. 6:16)

It's a great collection of fables containing a lot of wisdom. But come on - It's the word of a bunch of smart thinkers and inspired humans. And they disagree. It's our job to apply it to our lives in an individual way and not in some blind group-think method.

Answer 7

I've chosen to answer your first question "why do they feel the bible is a myth/fairytale."

Because if the sun REALLY "stood still" in the sky, like the bible says, (in reality the earth would have stopped rotating, thank you Copernicus) - everything would have flown off into space and half the earth would have been burnt.

Because people can't live inside a whale for 3 days.

Because a "god" would get mad at people for making a big tower and "confuse" the languges is a SILLY explanation for language differences.

Because it took god half a day to make all the stars, billions of planets, black holes, comets, quaasars and a day to make humans ...is SILLY.

Because a god that would punish a human for eternity for committing a finate act would give him the morals of a toddler and its just...silly.

Answer 8

Your foolish to believe anything you read about religion. It is all propaganda. Whether religion is spread by gunpoint,sword,holy book or word of mouth it is just the weak minded way of finding higher purpose. Thats why every one of them professes that you must have faith. The simple fact is science has already disproved several items from the bible including the appearance of the first human.

Find strength in yourself. Look to your own moral compass for guidance. You dont need a higher power to guide you through life. Experience life through the eyes of someone who knows that living is a finite experience and enjoying the small amount of time you have should be paramount. Live every day like it is your last and regret nothing.

Answer 9

And it's not self-promoting to believe that you're special because God made you and wrote a little book for you? Please.

You've managed to discard every other religion in the world as false. I've just done you one further.

Answer 10

"you can't handle the TRUTH!!!" Just kidding. The truth never changes. The world was always round even though for a time people thought otherwise. That's what God is all about.