Other than because it requires faith. Also, assuming a Creator exists, which is entirely reasonable when you take a look around you and particularly at the complexities in science.
2007-05-16 04:22:57 · 28 answers · asked by curious_inquisitor 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lucky - What? LOL! Your assuming he does not exist.
2007-05-16 04:51:38 · update #1
- No
- reason
- to
- disbelieve
- The Bible...
2007-05-16 04:35:02 · answer #1 · answered by Redeemed 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
1. The old testament came first and is the work of man and the free will given to him.
2. The Bible is not written, dictated or guided by God or Jesus but was written by fallable Christians about what they saw and thought.
3. It is well recorded that many theologians and other experts are concerned that the books chosen for the Bible were at odds with the ones discarded which numbered many times the ones used!
4. virtually all the documentation scrolls and other pieces are locked in a vault in the Vatican and no one - not even world experts are allowed access -WHY?
5. Christians get their name from being followers of Christ and wrote their own book. They follow a religion - not an ideology. Therefore they have to have faith to believe!
Only very bad Christians lacking in faith seek proof. Good question - well presented until the last sentence. Perhaps you missed the fact that the Pope himself said only a few weeks ago that there is much proof in science for evolution in the recent past and that it might go back to the beggining but since it covered hundreds of thousands of year it was highly unlikely definitive proof would ever be found.
Not unChristian at all. Merely an acceptance that the bible was written in fables and in ways that were easy to understand. Also that the fundamentalists, extremists and zealots seem to think God was not clever enough to have used evolution as his tool of creation!
2007-05-16 11:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
1. The Bible was created by a committee who chose to edit the Bible with what they felt was important and not just the facts.
2. The Bible is the book of the most powerful organization in history. History is written by the winners, and much blood was shed to be the winner.
3. The stories read like Myth and Folklore instead of true stories.
4. After being translated many time over the past thousand years, it once again has been edited to fit a specific group.
5. I'm supposed to base my life on people who thought the world was flat, the Earth was the center of the Universe, and killing people is ok if they went against your beliefs.
2007-05-16 11:33:58 · answer #3 · answered by tHEwISE 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you said this ..
"assuming a Creator exists, which is entirely reasonable when you take a look around you and particularly at the complexities in science. "
I realized there's nothing I could show you that would change your mind
2007-05-16 11:25:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
#1 -- Because there is no evidence of a Creator, complexity does not necessitate intelligent intervention.
#2 -- Because the deity in the Bible is literally the most evil being possible.
#3 -- Because the NT contradicts the OT
I don't really need a 4 or 5.
2007-05-16 11:28:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. No empirical proof. I really don't need to go further, but I will because you asked for 5.
2. Outlandish stories of food appearing out of nowhere, floods covering the entire earth, and people living to 800 years old.
3. It was written by man and man has a tendency to make things up.
4. It is very man-centric in order to keep females subservient. I think God would be a little more equal-opportunity, especially since he made women to bear the children. Without us, life would cease.
5. The book is riddled with inconsistencies so if it WAS inspired by god, then he needs to get his story straight or get people who understand him better to translate.
Of course, if you're one of the "look around us and you know God exists" types, none of what I've just said will mean anything to you anyway. I look around and I'm amazed by the coincidence that is life, that things just happened to end up like this. It's much more amazing and wonderful than "god did it," don't you think?
2007-05-16 11:27:47 · answer #6 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
1) Most of Genesis is filled with Mesopotamian mythology, which no one accepts any more.
2) Deuteronomy is a fake, written in the 8th century BC by scribes under King Josiah.
3) The Biblical prophecies failed and were later parted out and woven into new prophecies in a desperate attempt to salvage them.
4) Jesus is a patchwork of various pagan gods and mythologies from the Mediterranean region, and nothing in the Gospels is original.
5) The New Testament claims that the writers were living in the End Times, which was 2,000 years ago. They knew even less than the Heaven's Gate idiots who killed themselves trying to hitch a ride on a comet tail.
2007-05-16 11:26:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
1) Internal inconsistencies
2) Incorporation of other mythologies, especially to justify incorporation of popular foreign holidays.
3) The change in the character of God in books written after the Persian conquest, reflecting Zoroastrianism.
4) The depictions of God as a Zeus-like air god in the linguistically oldest passages.
5) The selection of books for inclusion was a haphazard inconsistent process.
2007-05-16 11:35:21 · answer #8 · answered by novangelis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1 there are contradictions in it (you'll find this if you compare the 4 gospels)
2 the new testament was written years after Jesus' death, bound to be inaccurate
3 a lot of the details in the old testament are impossible (people living to a veeery old age, Noah's ark)
4 there were lots more testaments until a pope decided to only allow the ones we have now (Google Gnostic gospels), why should only what this one man chose be the word of God?
5 common sense. if you believe in a great creating God, why would He not have made a better job of it?
2007-05-16 11:33:01 · answer #9 · answered by renemeis 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Again, Science cannot explain the whole concept of how this world was brought together. They say it happened by "Chance" which in case, it can be interpreted as "An accident." But even if chance was to happen, they cannot explain what was the force that drew them together to create the "Big Bang." Note: All we know is that the universe was here before us, therefore we cannot estimate how old it is, or exactly when the creation of earth began. Oh and Evolution requires faith also because of the GAPS they have in their THEORY.
2007-05-16 11:30:42 · answer #10 · answered by Da Mick 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1. Noah's ark is false
2. Adam and Eve is false
3. Jesus miracles are rehashed pagan beliefs
4. Prayer doesn't work, and this has been proven
5. Evolution and dinosaurs proved that the bible is false.
Not necessarily in that order. And that's just the first five that popped into my head.
2007-05-16 11:28:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋