I know a lot of you aren't Christians for reasons other than "the bible" but I'm wondering what about the bible you found the most difficult to swallow? Thanks!
2007-04-17 17:42:43 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And the special TTC addendum. If any Christian would like to chime in, which bit of the bible is hardest for you to take? (And everyone but you and maybe Dog Sneeze is not going to answer this seriously!)
2007-04-17 17:49:33 · update #1
you know I hate being excluded. this is about the vanilla pespi isn't it?
Edit: ok, I feel better. For me I would have to say the living to be over 800 years old. I don't disbelieve I just find it hard to understand.
2007-04-17 17:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually I believe it was the entire concept. You see it was books written many years before people even started to make it into a bible. Some people decided what should be in it and what shouldn't. It was translated from language to language and you know some languages don't translate very well into English. Why weren't all the writings put into the bible? Why were only a select few made into a bible? Could it be that there were things written that if they got out would be scandalous?
Hugs
2007-04-18 00:49:27 · answer #2 · answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I refuse to believe that the fall of mankind is due to a woman with an eating disorder that couldn't say 'NO" to an apple or a snake. I also find it ascinine that the 'first sin' was simply the aquisition of knowledge. The book in it's entirety is a horrible fiction that displays their god to be a jealous, murdering, infantile being that has a severe blood lust issue. If we met a human that carried the same personality traits as the Abrahamic god.....we would lock them up. Revelations always gets me too......co-opted from the work of Zoraster.
Ooops! You said ONE bit huh? Sorry, I'll go with cover to cover.
2007-04-18 00:56:00 · answer #3 · answered by Medusa 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am a Christian (progressive), but it took me 30+ years to become one. The main reason for this is various passages in the Bible seemed impossible for me to believe, and inconsistent with my understanding of God's wisdom and love.
The passage I've always struggled the most with is the famous "No one gets to the Father except through me." Most Christians love this verse, but for me, I simply cannot believe my devote Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and other friends cannot connect with God unless they are Christian.
A literal reading of this verse provides faith for many; for many others, it tells them that perhaps Christianity is not inclusive. It was only when I discovered the many interpretations of this and other verses did I realize that being a Christian did not have to mean surrendering to narrow-mindedness.
2007-04-18 00:51:40 · answer #4 · answered by Colin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a 2000 year old book written by sheepherders during a time when mankind still believed the earth was flat where a man is born the son of a god by immaculate conception, water turns into wine, a man walks on water, a snake talks, a stick turns into a snake, a sea parts, and a man rises from the dead after three days, a bush talks, mankind was created from dirt, woman was created from a man’s rib, with a supposedly loving god that throws people into hell to be tortured for eternity if they didn’t do what he says during life, accompany that with 900 year old people, a talking snake, a talking doney..
You get the point.
Why should I believe that?
2007-04-18 00:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The two creation stories.
In Genesis, it begins off with "In the beginning...." and then in Genesis 2:4 through 25 it's begins an entirely new story of the creation!
This is supposed to be the unvarnished Truth?!
2007-04-18 01:04:12 · answer #6 · answered by adphllps 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The talking donkey was weird, but after seeing another talking donkey (in Shrek), that started to make sense to me.
Dinosaurs and humans living together on a world that's only 6,000 years old was also weird. But then I saw the Flintstones. So, that also started to make sense to me.
So, I have to go with "God spoke the universe into existence". That part actually made me laugh out loud.
2007-04-18 00:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Paul's condemnation of homosexuality. Paul claiming he saw Jesus' Hologram. (Did Jesus have no other friends or disciples? Why choose Paul, an incompetent Sanhedrin, who never knew one thing Jesus said.)
Paul told his friends in those letters that he knew the mission of Jesus.
Paul's personal letters to his friends, and then those letters being thrown into the Bible, and then called "The word of God".
2007-04-18 00:52:33 · answer #8 · answered by Uncle Wayne 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
to start with i wasn't born christian acctually i wasn't born anything then they had to go shave my head and give me a religion what is up with that? so i never had to find something i don't like but if you didn't know the bible has been changed so many times who know what it really says so we really can't say what we don't like but beside that i don't like the whole thing about jesus and the thing about being able to eat animals and the thing about homosexuality being wrong also that dinisour thing
2007-04-18 00:53:22 · answer #9 · answered by anisah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
(1) The whole substitutionary atonement thing is absolutely ridiculous. (2) The wanton smiting -- the worst of which may be the Egyptian plague.
2007-04-18 00:47:07 · answer #10 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋