Why do people who know very little about Christianity or the Bible make so many bold statements against it?

Question

Anytime I see a post like this: "a question for Christians", it is usually based on gross misinterpreted and mangled scripture, by misinformed understandings of scripture or our beliefs, and by flawed concepts of "logic". People make statements about the Bible and God which are based only on ones own assumptions, and generally by people who have not even read one fourth of the Bible, let alone given it any consideration or made any attempt to understand it's applications. I can tell you, that I make many opinionated statements myself about atheism, but I at least have personally studied ALL sides of the creation v. B.B., and my opinions are based on actually knowing something about what it is I am debating. People, could it be that maybe you won't allow yourself to actually study and apply the Bible to your life, because you might start to feel it's divine nature and power and start to develop a sense of morality, or worse, become a follower of Christ, the God of Abraham in the flesh

Answer 1

The bible lets you know that those who love Christ will be hated just like they hated Christ. Every time I hear them put Christians down on this board I jump for joy at the chance of being persecuted for the Lord sake.

Answer 2

I have few problems with the Bible. I like a little mystery and paradox in my holy writ. The problem I have is with the so-called Christians who ignore its essential teachings about justice and compassion.

Fundamentalist Christians insist that every verse, sentence and word of the Bible is "true", therefore it is technically not even necessary to read the complete Bible to understand it. It should all be as plain as day. Yet they ignore the parts of the Mosaic Law they don't like and insist on the parts they do like. They cut phrases and verses out of context and paste them with others to create entirely new doctrines.

They profess undying love and obedience for Jesus but when he says, "Love your enemies. Do good to those who hurt you," or "Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor," or when he befriends pagans, prostitutes and lepers, they somehow know that he's only kidding. That applies to other people.

I study the Bible all the time and see a lot of wisdom in it, but I also see the majority of religious "leaders" regularly dicing, twisting and manipulating the Bible to impose a hierarchical status quo that will keep the sheep in line, offering lip service to God, reassurance to themselves, and condemnation to non-believers, free of troubling thought or responsibility to the poor and outcaste.

The "bold statements" of non-believers are usually valid, though trivial, logic arguments against a literal reading of scripture. The bigger problem is the chronic evidence that so many Christians don't really believe in their Bible.

Answer 3

Why do Christians make gross assumptions about atheism or evolution, with little knowledge of each? What you are asking applies to all people. However, no one agrees on what the Bible says. Does one take it literally or is it open to interpretation? Ask a 100 Christians and get a 100 different answers. That aside, how can one feel divine power from something that contradicts itself?

Answer 4

Isn't this a rather silly thing to ask, in light of the fact that atheists (American ones, anyway) as a group know more about the Bible than do believers, and represent it better in their questions than do the believers?

Wouldn't a better question be "why do people who know very little about Christianity or atheism make so many ignorant statements against atheism?"?

The fact is that atheists generally understand both sides of the debate, while believers very rarely show any understanding at all of atheism, and relatively little of religious belief itself. Until believers bother to understand the issues, they will continue to make complete fools of themselves in the discussion.

Answer 5

Moreover i find so many blind-faith zealots (aka christian fundamentalists) who have never read their bible and just regurgitate what they've heard all their lives by their pastors and priests, et al. If they had they would see the errors, the evilness of god in the OT and Jesus' ACTUAL message in the NT. do YOU know why god had 42 children killed in the OT? that story about how the boys made fun of the prophets bald head and 2 bears tore the kids apart... to make it even better the prophet actually cursed the kids! this means that the prophet CALLED god down to "sick" them! and god obeyed because why? the children were poking fun at the prophet. that's not just strange, that's sick. 42 boys dead because of a bald joke, and dead at the hands of 2 wild she-bears. torn apart. now imagine how long that would take, the bears couldn't do them all at the same time, so that meanst that each would have to find, on average, 21 little boys involved with this taunting and rip them up. do you think they stayed there and watched? probably ran away, so god would have had the bears HUNTING the little boys. I'm not twisting your scripture, i'm just taking one of the many disgusting stories from it. Then in the NT jesus says on a number of occasions that he came for the jews, not the gentile. he preached reform in the jewish religion, not a new religion. READ it, closely.

Answer 6

Have you noticed that some people who havn't even seen a word in the Quran and know very little about Islam make many bold statements against it? It goes both ways I guess. People don't need a reason to hate. They do not see both sides of the picture. They blindly believe the facts that are laid before them without investigating the truth about these facts. The ability of logical thinking is rapidly diminishing. It is human nature to belive rumors more than believing the real thing.

Answer 7

Most of us that make bold statements agasinst Christianity andd the Bible know more about it than 99% of its followers. And, 99% of Atheists were at one time followers. I know I WAS.

Gross misinterpretation. There is a glaring problem right there - why couldnt an omniscient beings write a book that wasnt open to so much misinterpretation? Why couldnt God simply tell it like it is, instead of needing to interpret the entire work of fiction?

Answer 8

They make bold statements against it because Christianity has made bold statements against reason. I capitalize to emphasize that its Christianity as a whole, and its collective behavior. You can talk about whatever ideals you want, but it's action that defines the true hearts of men. In short, because hypocrisies and irrationality run rampant in the Christian communities that loudly contradict many of the major themes of the bible we all know through word of mouth. Seeing this, people don't need, or want, to read the bible because your (general your) actions tell it, and they way it's ideals are displayed is with great hypocrisies and self-defeating contradictions. Basically, because of misrepresentation of the message.

Answer 9

all and sundry is scared to talk up. this is common to get on right here and %. on bible camp teenagers. maximum the arguments are not even sound this is in simple terms meant to get an improve out of folk contained domestically. individually, i could like it if there have been extra dialogue on Islam simply by fact the face that the media places on this is terrorism and jihad and from my Muslim pals i've got come to realize that this could be a gross representation of an exceedingly eye-catching and non violent (meant) faith. yet you're authentic faith and Spirituality would desire to be renamed to Atheists vs. Christians

Answer 10

im sorry but it is the hady work of mankind if the book was written by god then it would be error free it has been proved by many schlors that it has a lot of errors.
i agree that the bible/gospel (injeel) was the word of god but it was changed and so was the tawrat and that was also changed then allah revealed the quran and that was never changed it record the exact word of god and thats the reason why it was the final book.
i agree with jesus but he was not the son of god he was the prophet of god. christians say they believe in one god but at the same time they call jesus god but that makes two gods thats a contradiction then.
and no where in the bible does jesus himself say he was the son of god.