For those who say the Bible is merely a fairytale...???

Question

Can you really make that claim whole heartedly? Can you really say that the people who wrote the Bible made up their children's names and their own geneologies?

Can you really say that the Bible is a book full of crock when a lot of it is people's accounts of their own lives and families? And if that's the case how can you even believe history books?

What do you really believe about the Bible and are you being truely honest with yourself?

so you dont believe the people in those times knew their own children?

a lot of things and places in the bible have been confirmed, even places believed to have been so called fairy tales.

Answer 1

We live in a day and age where it is very easy to instantly verify facts and to research published information, and there are still MOUNTAINS of lies put into print every single day. There is a very old and wise saying.

Don't believe everything you read.

This saying is as true today as it was when the bible was first compiled from all its various sources by all its various authors.

If you believe the information in ANY book without investigating the authenticity of the sources, you may as well buy a deed to the Brooklyn Bridge, because that is how easy it is to hoodwink the public.

So what happens when we try to authenticate the bible? Well, we CAN'T. The only proof that the bible is the word of god are the words inside it claiming it is. Any doctrine that claims authenticity by virtue of it's own claim is not only highly suspect, but strongly resembles the tactics used by dictatorships to control their followers.

Now go and research my words!

Answer 2

Actually I am. I am not saying that everything in the bible is wrong. I am saying that no one can be sure that everything in there is what was originally said. I am saying that it was written by man and not God. I am also saying that there were many books that were written and only a few that were chosen to actually go into the making of the bible. I don't discount that this person was this persons child and that child had this child and so on. Now history books I do believe because American history was written in English and so it was not translated many of times before it came here. Are all the facts exactly as it is reported in the history books? Probably not. There might have been some embellishments just like in most books.

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Answer 3

You just have to look at people who trace their geneologies today. How many people say they can trace themselves back to William the Conqueror and therefore have a claim on the throne of England?

The tales were passed from generation to generation and as anyone who has played chinese whispers could attest, things get changed in each telling, small things that add up over the years. You just need to look at the Greco-Roman legends. Perseus probably had a really fast horse, but over the years that has turned into a flying horse.

The same things apply to the bible. Jesus may have gone to a wineless wedding (is there such a thing), and gave them 10 barrel of wine, because he was a generous guy. Over the years, this has changed to Jesus turning water into wine.

The Bible may be loosely based on fact, but time has altered the story, so there is more fiction than fact.


To Just Curious... you forgot that you had to do it in one shoe, that you only got on two days of the week, and that the snow was 4 foot deep.

Answer 4

Yes the bible is whole heartedly a fairy tale wrote by the Jews and taken in large part from the pagan myths at the time. The bible has dragons, unicorns, satyrs and other pagan mythological creatures in it. Yes I call that a fairy tale.

Of course that is not taking into account virgin births, resurrection, and other ridiculous claims.

Then if you can swallow all of that, you still need to take into consideration that it was wrote long after Jesus had already passed and has been edited over and over again as society changes and the barbaric principles within are rejected by society. Funny how the church can just alter the word of god when they see fit eh? Just like so many "moderates" who cherry-pick verses they like to follow and ignore what the deem and incorrect or unjust. If you actually believe this bunk, then how in the world can you only listen to just "some of" the WORD OF GOD?

Answer 5

Are you even familiar with how the Old Testament was recorded?

It wasn't recorded in writing by each generation like in some family Bible or something. It was handed down ORALLY for GENERATIONS, literally HUNDREDS of years, before people could even write.

Do you know how many mistakes get made in the oral retelling of events? How many times have you or your friends made mistakes in retelling an event that was told to you only secondhand, not to mention passing through hundreds of people?

For instance, do you REALLY believe that a man lived to be over 900 years old, before there was even modern medicine? How do you think that whopper got in there?

We can believe history books as reasonably accurate because they were recorded CONTEMPORANEOUSLY as the events happened (since people could write), AND there are other sources by which to authenticate their veracity.

The New Testament concerning Jesus' life was also recorded after he died, by people who did not even witness the events in question. Moreover, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the Gospel writers fabricated certain portions of their writings to conform to earlier "prophecies" about the coming of a Messiah.

Answer 6

You've had several good answers already, the regs are here in force tonight. Heres' my take on it

The Bible is essentially mythical. Legends and fables were intermixed with more mundane things. Stories were borrowed from Egyptian and Babylonian mythology. Writing was a sacred thing back then, only 100's of years after its invention. Everything written down was preserved. Later editors and redactors did a wonderful cut and paste job for their day.

The winners of political and military battles got to rewrite history, so that is why we often see conflicting stories about the heroes ( for example, there appear to be two different presentations of legendary King David, one portraying him in a good light as a hero, and another showing him as corrupt and unworthy.)

I'm not saying there are no correct facts in the Bible...some of the people and places mentioned did once exist. Many others we simply have no other records to confirm. (For example, the town of Nazareth didn't actually exist until after 100 CE, so we know that Jesus association with it was inserted to his back-story well after his putative death.)

Since you mentioned the subject, the genealogies given for Joseph, father of Jesus are completely different in Matthew and Luke. I don't actually see too many stories of average peoples "lives and families" in the Bible...most everyone is a hero or legend of one sort or another. (Adam, Noah, Abraham , Moses, Samson, Joshua,)

The clearly fairy tale parts such as the creation story, the flood, the 10 commandments, the tower of babel etc are ridiculous. The problem with your argument is that for other historical documents, we have alternate sources to confirm or refute the information. With the magical stories of the Bible, we only have the Bible.

Would you accept that sort of question if we substituted Book of Mormon, or Koran for where you say Bible.?

Answer 7

I think the main thing here is that any religion (and therefore religious item) is based on one thing alone: faith. If you personally believe that it's true, then it is. For those who don't believe, it is just a fairy tale, and no amount of reason short of a miracle will change some people's minds. There can be arguments made about the historical accuracy, translation accuracy, etc etc etc. But if you look for the main message of the Bible, I don't think anyone can go awry. For myself as a Christian, the message found in the New Testament is that you should be nice to people, and things will be okay. Why anyone would decide that that's a bad thing to subscribe to is beyond me, but hey, that's your faith. Any of us could be wrong about who God is/what He wants/if He exists. One sees what he wants to see, based on his own life experiences. I just have faith that God wouldn't lead me astray.

Answer 8

Yes, yes, and yes. Do you know that I actually ask you believer that? I can't understand how you can believe in it so deeply when it is so... absurd. History books are based on findings and truth it makes sense. The bible is like the telephone game. As time goes by, the real story gets changed, eventually what was supposed to be for fun is seen as truth.

Answer 9

It is less of a fairy tale and more of a book of fables, myths, and somewhat historic accounts with supernatural elements thrown in. It's a lot like the Iliad in that respect. Troy existed, and there was probably a battle there, but did the Greek gods directly influence it? Probably not.

There is evidence to back up what is in history books. There is evidence to back up some of what is in the bible, but there is no evidence to back up the supernatural elements of it.

Yes, I am being quite honest with myself. Why?

Answer 10

how far back can you trace your family? probably not more than 2 or 3 generations before you have to go to the hall of records, refer to the internet, and use whatever other sources our modern system of record keeping has provided us. now, do you really think people back then, did anywhere near as good of a job as us keeping track of their ancestry? a lot of what was known about family history was spread through folklore. we all have an uncle who would tend to embellish a story from time to time. i'm sure times haven't changed that much since then. and with each telling of the story i'm sure things got told much more elaborately. so in stead of hearing about how it rained for a day, and uncle noah had to move all the animals into the barn, it rained for forty days and great great uncle noah had to move all the animals onto an ark to save them from the great flood. i remember when i was your age i had to walk 15 miles in both directions, uphill to school and back. sound familiar?