Doesnt it make you mad when others tell you something about the bible and cant back it up?

Question

People tell me they believe in something or believe something but they not know what they talk about or "why" they believe it.

Answer 1

You must understand that they have never actually read it, it make it much easier to believe it.

Answer 2

Belief in Christianity is not rational. Period. Nobody can really argue that fact - they can only insist that "faith" is trans-rational. The idea that a man was crucified and died, but rose from the dead after 3 days, is on equal footing, logically, with the idea that another man makes annual global deliveries of presents on December 25. The SOLE difference is "faith."

So it makes precious little difference whether or not you can demonstrate to a religious person that the Bible is self-contradictory and absurd. Such people are simply incapable of intelligent criticism, at least as far as their own religion is concerned. They can usually see it with other people's religions; but the fundamental assumption, obviously, is that they're right and all others are wrong - but of course there can never be any rational demonstration of this, but only "faith" in the idea.

Answer 3

I'm not sure to what you are referring.

I do know that I'm often amused by the attempts of "bible literalists" to spin their "literal" interpretation to mean what they want it to mean.

Here's an example:

Folks who say that the bible describes the Earth as a sphere. The word is CIRCLE, and in Hebrew there IS a word for "sphere", and that's NOT the word used in the scripture they quote:

http://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/books/genesis/genesis1_circleearth.htm

And it amuses me (in a depressed shaking-my-head kind of way) that they know so VERY little about other early religious practices.

Here's another example of spin: Folks who say that "pass through the fire" means offering babies to be sacrificed (burnt):

"When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you." (Deuteronomy 18:9)

It's VERY amusing to me when folks say that "pass through the fire" means something other than the actual words.there. They will tell you over and over about every word in scripture being literally true, but not on this one.

Many older cultures and religions thought of fire as purifying, and at specific times of the year, people either leaped through the flames of a bonfire or walked between two fires to symbolically burn away disease or other impurities. Domesticated animals were also led or driven between bonfires to purify them and to promote fertility, and children were carried through the flames, too, to keep them healthy.

This was not child sacrifice.


I could go on and on and on....

Of course, I don't put any stock in the Bible's accuracy as either a science or history textbook, so in many ways I don't care how they spin things. But sometimes the spin they apply (generally in terms of other religions) is so deliberately malicious and so untrue that it irks me no end.

And of course, it is no surprise that when applying spin they do so in the manner that will make others appear as horrible as possible, and themselves as good and noble and correct as possible.

Answer 4

No, it makes me sad. I usually try to help them find the belief that they think is there. If it's there, then no problem. If not, then we have a reason to talk.

Answer 5

If I let that kind of thing make me mad, I would be a pretty angry person.

Answer 6

I thought that the bible's prophecy was enougth to support its claims. It is 1/3 prophetic if you are willing to read and study.

Answer 7

Agree with the first answer.

Answer 8

Give some examples.

Answer 9

I will back up any statement I make.

Answer 10

i have to admit it bothers me this is why I always try to back up my answers with scripture