god made man and put him in a magical garden with an apple tree of sin growing in it. Adam needed a friend so god preformed surgery on him and took out his rib and turned it into a woman. They ate the apple so god had to send his son to earth to get tortured and murdered. They god sat down wispered in some guys ears and told them exactly what to write in a book (hundreds of pages worth) then god decided if you dont belive what christians have to say he will be forced to let your flesh burn off in a pit of fire until the end of time. How is a rational person supposed that take that in and believe it.
2006-11-11 17:57:15 · 18 answers · asked by taylor 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what a fairy tale! tell me more stories please?
2006-11-11 17:59:12 · answer #1 · answered by I SEE NO GOOD 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Looks like you know the bible pretty well. The only thing that's missing is your faith and acceptance of Christ. You don't have to believe the Bible and you don't have to believe in God but like you said, there are consequences (such as burning in hell). I was a "christian" who didn't quite belive, but I asked God to show me He was real, and He did in many ways. Even if I had not asked Him, if I was smart enough at that time I could of judged for myself that life and everything on this earth couldn't just be an accident.
2006-11-12 02:07:53 · answer #2 · answered by VIP 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's a little more complex than that. Your synopsis misses several crucial points. Kind of like instant food. You want instant religion, don't you, and well, it's not working for you because you've just scratched the surface, and you are too lazy to delve any deeper. Or too afraid. Maybe you'll find that life is really inside out. What's the worst that can happen? Something interesting. Something good. Something noble.
Well, no matter your words to us, when you need this religion, it will be there.
2006-11-12 02:06:18 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve disobeyed God and we've all been doing it ever since, the only way to be forgiven, was for a perfect sacrifice to be made, the Old Testament tells about it, the way the hebrews had to atone for their sins, but for all of us to be pardoned, there had to be a human sacrifice and Jesus was the only one perfect and without sin that could do it. He chose to do it the bible says he could have called on ten thousand angels to come and help him...but he didn't....
2006-11-12 02:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes taylor I was a non believer and I understand.
I came to believe by needing, requesting and receiving a miracle. I pray that everyone comes to believe one way or another. I see your point in this question, and the only thing I would even think of arguing is that the bible wasnt written by "one guy" it had dozens of authors and spanned thousands of years until it was complete.
Thanks for your opinion. I respect you sharing it. I am a Christian and I hope you can respect that I do believe.
Have a great night, taylor!!!
2006-11-12 02:00:56 · answer #5 · answered by judge_smails_sir 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
you've got it close enough
(but here's the complete but condensed "fairy tale")
first God created the angels...
the best of whom rebelled & thought "he" is actually higher than God.
God threw "him" down with his fallen cohorts to planet earth & prepared a place (which we now call hell) for them to be eventually thrown into.
God then made man & placed him in not really a magical garden but in a place where everything he needed was provided, with 1 rule though (1 single rule).
...not to eat a certain fruit (nobody really said it was an apple).
a single fruit that will give man the knowledge of good & evil.
But of course the fallen angel cast doubt on the woman (that was taken out of the man's rib) & that tiny doubt gave way for man to break that soliltary rule.
Now man has the knowledge of good & evil... & that is why God has to give man His "complete" rules of dos & donts (instead of that single rule, so as for man to really know what is good & what is evil).
Now God wanted to have fellowship with man but because He was a Holy God, so He will not have anything to do with rebellion (or sin) & because God is a just God...not wanting to break those two characters... so like He did with the fallen angels....
He had no other choice but to punish man but to take that punishment that was supposed to be for man upon Himself... how?
Well the simplest way for our human minds to comprehend is to first for God to have some "guys" write down the whole story because we still do not have the web back then....
& to send his Son to take the punishment instead so as to absolve all humankind.... & to be able to bridge the gap the sin caused to having fellowship with God.
Now men who have been acquited of those laws through the payment of the penalty of sin of the Son is now free to have fellowship with God (his Creator) through the power of the Holy Spirit (which is why we have that concept of a triune God-- God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit)
so you see....it's really a fairy tale with a happy ending...
not unlike any other, is it really that hard to believe?
2006-11-12 02:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by 4x4 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That doesn't really take into account the diversity of beliefs within Christianity. There are many different types of Christianity and you seem to be taking about fundamentalist Christian beliefs (ie. everything in the Bible is to be taken literally). The the majority of Christians aren't fundamentalist.
2006-11-12 02:14:12 · answer #7 · answered by Becca 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have wondered this for years...
The biggest thing that always got me was that they TALK about this "loving god" "father" and whatnot... my guess is that the fellas that wrote the bible must have had some vicious, abusive, sadistic, fathers or something. Because, I cannot imagine sending my child, were I to have one, to burn and suffer a thousand deaths FOR ETERNITY based on something that happened in the course of 50-80 years...
And therein lies one MAJOR rub... (of many)
2006-11-12 02:01:49 · answer #8 · answered by D B 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would think, though not being an athiest I can't assume I'm right, that an atheist would look at christianity and not believe it therefore god would be "god" and adam and eve would be "adam" and "eve" you know, quotations as if they're saying that they don't believe it or... gosh, lost myself.
2006-11-12 02:04:33 · answer #9 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ya know, actually, that is a bit true. That's actually the hardcore turth, without the sugar coating.
2006-11-12 01:59:25 · answer #10 · answered by curlyfries 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually it sounds even more absurd and disjointed than that.
That reads more like a Christian's take an atheist's.
2006-11-12 02:03:21 · answer #11 · answered by February Rain 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋