ATHEISTS: It's already been determined that the assertion that you know more of the Bible than Christians...

Question

...is just atheist propaganda. Please see below:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0WTcZPfPB5GCRIAcgnty6IX?qid=20070312093128AAJOF6k

So, let's say for the purpose of argument that you DO know the Word of God, BUT...

Do you know the GOD of the Word?

Answer 1

Only one who is born again can truly know the word...for the word of GOD is spiritually discerned or revealed to the heart of the believer. The natural man or the man without CHRIST cannot understand the "deeper" things of GOD 1cor 2:10-16.
~GOD BLESS YOU ALL WITH THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST, AMEN AND SO BE IT~

Answer 2

I don't know what Atheists you're talking about, but I have never once stated that I "know more" of the bible than Christians. I was forced to study it for most of my adolescent life so i have an "understanding" of it's contexts, but I cannot quote scripture like some can.

You don't have to be able to quote the bible from cover to cover to know that it is just a fairy tale for adults. If ANYTHING is propaganda it is the christians using every stupid little thing they can get their greasy little hands on to try & prove that Atheists are just as arrogant as they are.

Christians go around saying "I KNOW god exists" " I KNOW god created everything" "I KNOW the bible is true"...... & they call atheists arrogant & ignorant..... I may not know the bible cover to cover, but i am familiar with it........ I think that it is safe to say that there are a good portion of Atheists who are more familiar with the bible than those who actually follow it in their religion. Mostly because reading the bible was the reason for their decision to become an Atheist.

Vern7 up above me: I'd like to see some quotes of these Atheists who supposedly say they "hate god" because i don't believe that. Anyone who says they hate god is a disillusioned religious person who doesn't get what they wish for when they pray. Me being an Atheist, do not believe in god & thus do not and can not hate something that is not there.

Answer 3

Something that is divine, omni-present, etc, is inherently agreed in some circles as being beyond human created understanding and logic.

The study of the nature of God and religious truth predominantly uses rational inquiry into religious questions.

This is akin to comparing apples and oranges where rationality is used to understand the irrational. Philosophy has tried to rationalize it but even Descartes had to nullify the idea of the divine so that his theory could stand.

The frustration over the ages is that multi-pronged approaches has left the greatest thinkers of the ages puzzled no closer to the truth.

The latest systems of understanding like Chaos theory, once dubbed as a fairy tale is now used to supplement and spearhead conventional tools to understanding the environment.

Where the same old tools used to fix a truck can be used on a high performance car is beyond me. In short, a new set of tools to understand unexplained phenomena is required.

Various religions have prescribed meditation, fasting, animal sacrifice to letting the holy spirit or its equivalent to fill the person as a vessel to gain further enlightment.

Science’s best bet so far is applying avant garde theories to explain the unexplained phenomenon of the world. That is the best present methods of study and understanding to feel existing systems and models for now.

For the purpose of argument, we are as close to the Word of God as we are far from knowing the definition, let alone essence of God.

Answer 4

While I agree that there is no scientific proof, the proof is unnecessary. The bible is written and for all to examine, atheists found a lot of contradictions that made them atheists. They can claim they know more than Christians who do not see the contradictions whether they are right or wrong contradictions. Christians argument was, most of the time, you have to have faith to understand the bible.

I do not claim that I know more but my belief is strong based on logic and the few contradictions that I already know from reading the bible.

Answer 5

Well I have at least read the Bible. That is more than most Christians, and there are things that back that up. 80% of you guys have not read it cover to cover. Now there is no reason for me to study it in depth, because the face of it is absurd, any more than there is to spend a year studying Snow White.

That God in the Old Testament was quite a tyrant and probably mentally ill by any standard. My three year old has a better temper. What I can't figure out is why you guys WANT the Bible to be true.

Answer 6

I also have been amazed of the knowledge of the bible they have; which proves my point :
Faith comes by hearing ( what the Spirit is saying to the church ) and that hearing comes by the Word of God. Takes revelations.

PEACE, Kieth

Answer 7

Atheist KNOW the word of god, because we read the bible with our eyes and brain, taking it as what it is, a book wrote by men and imagined by men. We do not take it for real just because they are words in a book, thats the reason because we do not believe in Harry Potter too.

People...we READ the bible and THINK, we do not read what we want to, and see what we want to, and feel like we want to, like believers do.

Regards.

Answer 8

More tiresome Christian word games. The truth is I gave up reading that overworked anthology of our ancient ancestor's ignorant superstitions fifty years ago. I certainly have no wish to be known as one who wasted his life studying that kind of nonsense. I readily admit that you know much more about your silly Bible than I. So what?

Oh yeah, the God of the word.... Are you admitting God is a fictional device invented by ancient Biblical authors, or that God is a human creation arising from our ancestor's ignorance of natural forces? I thought not.

Answer 9

What we should do is travel across the world and spread Christianity to the heathens or have them face death, because they're obviously too stupid to know anything better. I mean, seriously, what has ever become of non-Christians? Besides 18% of the Nobel Prize winners being Jewish.

Answer 10

I'm a Deist, which means I believe in the existence of One Great Deity, but I deny the biblical god. I believe the bible is man's words, not God's.