Becuase most of athiest argument is basically that the Bible is written&put together in a way that they cant immediatly understand.And that their carnal brain alone cant understand;seems to me atheist really arnt willing to dig deeper&learn to believe with their heart¬ just their mind.The Bible is written and put together in a way,that only those that are believing with their heart first will understand.Cuase if the heart is involved then a person would take the time to figure out&properly understand what is being said and what verses go together,what is unique to the particular time&what is refrencing future generations,what is in God's time&what is in man's time.Athiest,true or false,you really dont want to search&think more than you think you should have to.So intead of perservering in understanding,you take the easy road&just give up cuase you dont want to think that hard?
2007-03-23 12:33:37 · 24 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, I kind of agree with you.
2007-03-23 12:43:05 · answer #1 · answered by tertiahibernica 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
False. I got to know the bible in my years as an adult believing Christian. It was exactly in studying it in order to use it properly that I saw the problems, the difficulties. I have delved deeply into all the issues *and* the proffered answers.
(do you have a battered copy of "Approaches to Old Testament Interpretation" or its equivalent on *your* bookshelf?) The only way it all fits together is if you assume it does. You can't get there from the text alone.
The easy road, to give up fifteen years of being a Christian, and teaching a Christian message? Don't make me laugh. Not even with a bitter edge to it.
It isn't the parts of the bible I don't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do, as Mark Twain put it.
I'm not convinced you've even looked at the problems before dismissing them. Now THAT's the easy road.
Let's take simple sample question:
What do you think the ending of Mark's gospel should be?
2007-03-23 19:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I went through my atheist phase my brain was racing constantly...assimilating everything into my world-view. As a philosophical position, atheism can be very intellectually engaging.
As a spiritual position...an outright rejection of divinity, it can be quite negative.
Basically, just because someone is an atheist doesn't preclude that they don't think about what is wrong and right...they just frame it in a different context.
To say that atheists are lazy is kind of mistaken, as the task of discerning right from wrong without reference to some absolute is a much more difficult task to take on than one might initially think.
...there may be an issue here specifically though in presuming that the atheists who hang out here in R&S Answers represent ALL atheists. Each atheist is as unique as each believer.
Love,
-Rob
2007-03-23 19:47:41 · answer #3 · answered by Rob S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then how do you explain the many atheists on this section who were Christians for a large part of their life? Many of them were just as confident about the religion as you are. Don't give me this "atheists don't try" business -- I'd be willing to bet that there's not a single atheist here who didn't make an honest effort at some point in their life to understand the Bible. The book makes no sense and countless parts of it are completely implausible and impossible. It has nothing to do with "not being willing to believe with your heart".
2007-03-23 19:41:31 · answer #4 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They think hard, sadly not in the right direction. And I don't mean just the bible. Everyman's journey is a long and ardous one. I don't intend on judging anyone, however certain stereo types abound and it is easy to make judgments. However I am willing to accept that atheists (or let's just call them "people") do think critically over a wide array of subjects. One subject that most people seem to be lacking in is philosophy. I do not blame them, I blame the fact that 1. Philosophy is a challenge, and 2. Certain philosophers turned towards nihilism which sort of hurt the original cause of philosophy. But either way, knowledge transcends everything else, so as long as you have knowledge, you'll do okay.
2007-03-23 19:44:07 · answer #5 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can sit here and say any book was actually written by God himself. I can say "War and Peace" was written by God, you are just not searching hard enough to see, or that it is put together in a certain way, or that there is a secret code that you will see if you just look heard enough and believe in your heart, or that it was not meant to be taken literally.
The truth is, the bible contradicts itself, and mostly doesn't make sense. All you do is rationalize your way out of it.
2007-03-23 19:42:19 · answer #6 · answered by Kristine R 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God. But, it is very hard for most people to believe that something exists when there is little proof other than a book written a couple thousand years ago. Christians have a book. Jewish people have a book. Muslims have a book. All the true believers of each book think theirs is the only right one. Atheists, christians, Jewish people, muslims, can argue for the rest of their lives. Nothing is going to change. People are going to believe what they want. What feels right for them. Nothing either one of them say, is going to change anything. Well, some are able to change others to their way of thinking. But very rare
2007-03-23 19:40:30 · answer #7 · answered by Rosalind S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Bible is written and put together in a way,that only those that are believing with their heart first will understand."
Oh yes, it's written in an old form of English to be magical like that.
True or false, you just don't get that we do not share your beliefs, end of story.
It kinda irritates me that people act like we have to believe what they do, then other nitwits turn around and ask why we seem angry. Bleh!
2007-03-23 19:40:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wow. You don't believe in mental analysis, because this only leads to questions that cannot be answered. Therefore, you complain about those who do. Why can't everyone accept without question like you do? Don't you think that devout Muslims could make the same claims that you do? What makes you think that your are correct and that they are not? Your heart? Is your heart that much superior to theirs?
2007-03-23 19:39:11 · answer #9 · answered by Fred 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What? You're quite astounding...
1. Learn to spell: it's "Atheists" (run SpellCheck to find more).
2. Don't care how it's "put together", it's squat to do with reality.
3. We "dig" into science and truth, not the supernatural.
4. There's no "God's time", simply because there's no "God".
5. There's *tons* to search & think about, other than one book.
2007-03-23 19:38:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
No, I think the Bible was written by goat herders that had no idea what they were talking about. God made plants before he made the Sun? What kind of silly meaning am I supposed to get from that other than one that is just flat out made up?
2007-03-23 19:40:44 · answer #11 · answered by Alex 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋