I still believe in God but I can see now that the bible is just a bunch of stories and misunderstandings.
There are many things in the bible which I believe may have seen as Godly events and happenings but which in todays world can easily be explained and understood.
If tomorow it started to rain for 40 days and 40 nights and a large area of land happened to flood would you balme it on god getting revenge on the people of earth or would you look on the weather and see that the current conditions in the atmosphere were causing the rain to fall?
If a woman said she was pregnant but never had sex would you think she was having the son of god or do you think she had been sleeping with someone else behind her husbands back?
2006-11-10 08:11:03 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I thought this would upset a few people...
How so many people can believe what a book says is just crazy.
How can you believe a man turned wine into water ot that the oceans split apart so somebody could cross the sea?
I can not convince the believers that I am right, but if I had told people 1000 years ago the earth was round they would react the same way you are now...
2006-11-10 08:20:50 · update #1
How was it known that the entire earth flooded?
Travel then was limited so a flood over a few hundred miles of land would seem like the world,
2006-11-10 08:24:34 · update #2
Well done for starting to think like a human.
It is pretty obvious that the bible is not true. It is a packaged product designed to create a religious truth with which to bind (and blind) people.
Bind in that you believe in 'God' and you have to take the bible wholesale (imperfections, contradications and everything). Blind int hat you have to ignore the real evidence of history in order to 'believe' and be saved.
Archeologists do not tend to use the bible as source material because so much of it is false. There is no historical reference to Jesus outside of a few books in the bible.
In the ancient world myths were not seen as untrue in quite the way we see them today. Myths were a way of spreading a spritual idea or 'truth' through the telling of an allegorical tale that could work on many levels.
The Egyptians, for example, were prodigious record keepers. We have found written accounts for the tiniest minutea of their daily lives, and records for nobles and royal families stretching back many thousands of years. We even know the names of those kings that that they tried to have 'erased' from history.
Yet nowhere in any of these records is a high nobleman called 'Moses' recorded. And there is no mention anywhere of the Jews being held captive in Egypt, or of thousands of Jewish 'slaves' suddenly up and leaving via the red sea.
Read the bible, by all means. But do not take it literally!
2006-11-10 08:55:43 · answer #1 · answered by Colin A 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Just because something is 'explainable' doesn't mean that's the whole explanation. Archaeologists use the Bible as a starting point quite often, and are seldom disappointed. The events of Exodus have been documented by scientists as having actually happened. It's not just a story. The sun stopping in the sky is documented in cultures around the world. THAT had to be a genuine miracle, as the oceans should have flooded the land when it happened. Yet even in America, the Indians there recorded an extra long night at that time in THEIR history. So it wasn't just some kind of long day myth common to all mankind.
2006-11-10 08:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Myths are not meant to be taken as literal truth. Many people refuse to read between the lines, and look at the deeper meaning. Also consider that the translations of the original documents that made the Bible are imperfect, and sometimes outright wrong.
Look at the message behind the story, don't believe what everyone tells you and above all think for yourself. You can believe in a god without subscribing to a dogma.
2006-11-10 08:16:32 · answer #3 · answered by E D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
mm-mm....
you have to keep in mind that it was written by humans - well, men, actually. and if you go back, you may be able to see all those mistranslations (which is why i try to have the 'native' version of my books, there are so little good translators in this world), and before that, it was retold over and over again orally.
also, some tales, are based on older not-Jewish tales.
and there are things named metaphors - surely you are familiar with?
for my part, i am a seeker, and do not believe i will ever be able to think myself sole owner of truth.
(and still wonder what the original scripts/stories were really like...?)
2006-11-10 08:53:04 · answer #4 · answered by rosa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can explain a phenomena with a fact, backed by a fact, ultimately based on a theory...somewhere down the line. There is where God comes in. Can I believe He commanded a flood? Yes. And that can't be explained thru the mechanics of weather. To flood a continent or portion of, where mountains are covered....it is too much water. Are we emptying a sea and dumping it over them? We know that is not possible in our science. Miracles, can not be refuted by science when empirical evidence is lacking. You do not believe in the God of the bible. You believe in the god called man.
2006-11-10 08:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by TCFKAYM 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just like to make one correction to your comments. You have benn a choice whether you want to believe in God or not....
One thousand years ago (but perhaps not in Europe), people knew that the earth was round, revolved around its own axis and took exactly one year to orbit the sun.
2006-11-10 09:07:38 · answer #6 · answered by Nothing to say? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe there is a higher power than us meer mortals!!!
The bible was shoved down my throat from a young age at catholic school which i swollowed. Now that i am older I dont believe in a single word it says, there is so many religions out there what one speaks the truth?
The human spirit is something else i believe in greatly, the kindness of strangers and the power we have to overcome obstacles put in our way.
Is that God or the goodness in us as humans?
2006-11-10 08:24:30 · answer #7 · answered by kate 0504 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A man is working on a roof. Suddenly, he slips, and is sliding towards the edge of the roof. He cries out "Help me Lord!".
Just then, his shirt catches on a nail, which stops him from sliding.
"Nevermind Lord! This nail caught me!"
God is all powerful, and if he chooses to use natural means to accomplish a task, well that's His choice.
As a side note, it didn't just rain for 40 days and 40 nights. The fountains of the deep broke open (underground rivers, lakes, etc came shooting forth), and it flooded the entire Earth, covering the tallest mountain, not just a "large area". Not exactly something that just "happens"
2006-11-10 08:19:20 · answer #8 · answered by pohustla 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
of course i is no entirely true. It is writtenby the word of man throughou the ages. It is based on true facts, but just as daily tabloids exaggerate, so does the church and word of mouth! But the people and places and events it speaks of are true, of course. Why ever else would it have existed in the first place!?
2006-11-10 08:47:52 · answer #9 · answered by rose_merrick 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the Holy Bible is a book of clean living many of what it says is still true today ,which shows human nature at its best and worst. God gave us the ability to think and dream.Therefore you are entitled to your own assumptions
2006-11-10 08:24:00 · answer #10 · answered by paul t 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋