Whats been proven wrong in the Bible?

Question

I am atheist and was debating religion with my aunt. I remember reading about Galileo and how he proved a statement was false in the bible that stated "The earth is the center of the Universe". Does anyone know that passage Galileo proved wrong. Are there anymore out there that was proved wrong or thought to be debatable. Christians just think they are so right and everyone else will go to hell if you don't believe. I need some more arguments.

Answer 1

It's just the whole point of the bible that is wrong.
I am not an atheist. To be precise, I am agnostic. That means I believe there is no way to tell if there is a god or not.
If there is one, the only way to tell is if you see him in person (or whatever type of experience that might be). If you rely on books written some 2000 years ago relating events that occured way beforehand, and revisited many times since then, you are foolish, or you are simply going with the flow because everyone else around you is. Funny how religions are related to culture. Between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian, each one thinks he is right. But if you, devoted christian, were born in Saoudi Arabia, you would be a muslim, and you wouldn't think too highly of the bible. So why does your absolute truth depend on where you are born? Or else what makes your religion the only true one, and all the others (and their own sacred texts) false?
I am sure that you have your welll thought arguments as to why your religion is the right one, but guess what, so do all the other religions. At the end, all it comes down to is faith. which is by definition, irrationnal. There is simply no proof to religion. There is only faith, which is not a proof.
If you don't see anything wrong with that, and it helps you live a better life, more spiritually filled... that's great. It can be useful when used correctly.
Now, on the other side, faith has been responsible for the crusades. It has been used as an instrument for colonization. Today, It is still fueling many conflicts, it is being used as an instrument to further political agendas, and it's conflicting with human rights.
So whenever you religious folks try to convert your entourage, do them a favour and teach them to think for themselves instead.

Answer 2

The Bible uses literal text, metaphors, parables and other forms of ways to describe the message it needs to get across.

Galileo may have proven, guess what the earth isn't the center of the universe, personally I wouldn’t know either way.. I'm not a scientist and I'm guessing your not..

But what I can tell you is that, the Bible has a purpose, for each thing that is stated and perhaps if given a chapter, verse ect I could find it.. But maybe the statement isn't meant to be literal, as Galileo was looking for science in the matter, but that wasn't the message in the first place.

One would need to read the context it was said. Perhaps it means that instead of searching into space for answers.. or searching period for all your answers.. their right in front of you.

The answer is centered here.. It is said, that at the end of the world God will destroy the earth and create a new heaven on earth.. It describes in Revelations how the new heaven will be created. The new earth/heaven will become the center of the universe.

Atheism amuses me.. The belief that there is no God...A venture so hard to disprove the existence, a faith as it were..

Faith to believe in God

(Parallel)

Faith to believe he doesn't exist..

" Christian think their so right.. and everyone will go to hell if you don't believe?"

Christians follow the scriptures from the Bible.. What we say comes from this..We speak the words that we read.. if one has a problem with what one says.. talk to God, or better yet read the Bible and see for yourself.

Here is a parable for you:
Atheism is like a shopper, who is trying to justify a purchase.. although the price tag says free. Continuously trying to justify a free purchase. Making up great profound arguments as to all the reasons why one shouldn’t take that free item, because it seems to easy.. Lets make it more difficult.. of course anything worth having must be hard to obtain, but little does one realize the best things in life are free

Answer 3

I don't think the Bible ever mentions that "the Earth is the center of the Universe.." or anything to that effect.

It was the Roman Catholic Church that declared such a statement and backed by the infallibility of the then Pope whenever it was so decreed.

But it is never mentioned in the Bible. Sorry, you're WRONG in that argument...

One other thing, if it's not asking too much, I would suggest that you refrain from making broad, sweeping statements that reek of stereotypical allegations on others who don't share your views. It certainly puts a bad light on your ilk.

And I do know of other ERRORS within the Bible that any erudite and educated scholar, such as yourself, can readily find if you only SPEND TIME READING it for yourself!

Peace be with you.

Answer 4

"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
- 1 Kings 7:23, and again at 2 Chronicles 4:2.

This describes a circular object with a diameter of 10 cubits and a circumference of 30 cubits. If you divide that out, you get 3.000. Anyone who's had elementary geometry knows that the ratio of the diameter to the circumference is 3.1415926... (in other words, pi). If the diameter was 10 cubits, the line that did compass it round about should have been 31 cubits.
So unless God changed the value of Pi since the time of King Solomon, then this part of the Bible is provably false.

Also, if you take Genesis literally then the universe was created in 6 days, and was completed about 6,000 years ago. This means you must disbelieve everything about radioactive dating methods, as well as geology and paleontology and, well, science in general. So there's not much point in telling a biblical literalist that science has disproved something in the bible, even science from 500 years ago, because their not going to accept it.

Answer 5

As an atheist you are entitled to your opinion, however, Christians have strong beliefs based on very strong principles and ethics. Whether you believe that or not is up to you but don't go asking for proof for something of this magnitude. These types of things cannot be proven by humans alone and it takes a divine entity to validate alot of these otherwise truthful assumptions.

Answer 6

Actually what you are wanting is about 100 quotes in the Bible that refer to the 'geocentric' (Earth centered) theory. Galileo proposed the 'heliocentric' (Sun centered) theory. Both are THEORIES, and neither have not been proven. So you can't use Galileo or his theory as proof.

The reason the Catholic church got it's panties in a wad is that it states that the Bible is true, and infallible and yet here comes this guy (Galileo) and says otherwise. It is the Church's responsibility to protect the faithful.

In regards to your religion, Atheism; good luck. You can't use the Bible, it's off limits because you don't believe in it anyhow...use other sources for your arguments.

Answer 7

Well, there's the fact that there wasn't a world-wide flood and that the Earth is round, not flat as implied in several places (hint: a circle is flat, a sphere is round, and you can't see all of the ciites of the earth, even back then, from any one point on a sphere), and the thing about having cows see a striped stick and then having striped calves - that's not true either.

Edit: Oh, and if she argues with you, there were some passages - in Timothy I think? - that say that women can't education men on the bible, and they should be silent. If that doesn't win her over, I don't know what will.

Answer 8

1 Samuel

"The pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them. 2:8

that is one of them. Go find the rest yourself.

Oh here is some more silly stuff on the earth

1 Chronicles 16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

Answer 9

Where was my head ? I know just the verses : )

Revelation, chapter 7
1: After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.

Rev chapter 20
8: and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.

Acts, chapter 10 eet, let down by four corners upon the earth. In it we...
Isaiah, chapter 11 Judah from the four corners of the earth. The jealou...



Gen 1:17
"And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth," (Stars)

Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

Revelation, chapter 6 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree
Revelation, chapter 8 d a third of the stars, so that a third of their light was darkened;
Revelation Chapter 12:4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth.

Answer 10

Galileo proved that tehe earth is not the center of the universe as the church had taught, they called him a blasphemer and had his eyes burned out..