Christians: Have you actually read the Bible?

Question

And if you have, did it actually strengthen your faith?

I'm asking because the more I read it, the more it confirms my atheism. Every page screams "Men, men, men wrote this."

Answer 1

Christians read it, but concentrate on certain parts until they can explain the passage to make it fit their doctrine. You have read it without being corrupted by religion and found the truth, yes it was written by Men, just as the Qur'an and Book of Mormon etc.

Answer 2

Yes
Yes
That's you

I find it amazing that Creation was one day one, the Sun and Earth were fixed on day four and that is 2/3 of the way to Day six when God finished

And Science says Creation was 14-15 billion years and the Sun and Earth were 4-5 billion years and that is 2/3 the way to today.

Astonishing similarity for a 3,000+ year old book

Jesus restored life with the touch of his hand 2,000 years ago and said WE CAN ALL DO WHAT HE DOES

Today we can restore life to some with CPR, a touch of the hand

Golly, isn't that amazing. Maybe if we listened harder we'd make faster advancements

In the Bible there is a passage about a man made of metal who ate a roll or parchment and spoke

I used to work with 1" green computer punch tape that programmed our machines. I have a speech syntheizer in my computer and when I put in text will speaketh!

The Bible is not a physics text, but a document by far more primitives minds that details what they saw and experienced. Nothing more and nothing less.

And these are three examples.

Read the book and you will learn all the secrets of the universe, if you widen your mind and apply the modern education you have to the more primitive images of what they saw and knew.

And that includes the End of Times, the END of happy, cool, fruitful, modern style life on the Earth, which even SCIENCE says will eventually occur as the SUN, like man, is FINITE.

The SUN could start to destablize tomorrow or in 200 years and Science will simply RE-WRITE physics like they RE-WROTE Pluto being a planet.

They don't KNOW for sure was have billions of years. We might and we might not.

We don't know how deep the hydrogen layer goes and when that layer gets used it it will be mixed with other gases that will cause a color and spectral shift and with X amount of years the Hydrogen layer will be consumed and the heat will take over in another layer that MAY NOT SUPPORT life on Earth.

Science says THAT IS AN ENEVITABILITY

I don't disagree with Science and I don't disagree with God.

Answer 3

I am a Christian, and yes I have read the Bible and more than that I actually studied it and the times it was written. This has brought a great understanding of God, and has brought me closer to Him.
You sound like you are looking for the author. Well yes I have to agree with your point that men, and more men wrote the words. But tell me please ...if you write a letter to your loved one, what wrote it? You or the pen you used?
God Himself is responsible for the books in the Bible. We men were the pens. God had the books written out of love for you.
Please go back to the books and study? Just reading it ...well you might as well pick up the Robert Jordan series on the wheel of time for all your perusing is worth.
Try to study the Bible. Every book of the collection is a valuable source of lessons in which to live by. Yes even the evil recorded is there for a reason. This world is not all good you know.
There are lessons in the wrongs of the Bible story, you can do well learning from them.

Answer 4

First time I read the Bible all the way through God spoke to my heart about the Love He had for all mankind despite man lack of obedience to Him. Look at the Bible as relationship between God and man. Man falling always short and God always still loving them anyway. Try reading part of the old and new testament together when you read. Like a chapter or story a piece. maybe starting with Genesis and John. This might help you a little more to see even if you do not believe that the relationship with God is what is unique about faith in God.

Second time I read the Bible it seemed God's judgement and righteousness spoke even louder. God judgement meaning consequences for disobedience. Rigtheousness dealing with God's Holyness.

I have read the Bible many times and get something new each time. I am not talking just a chapter here or there but the entire Bible.

Answer 5

I have read quite a lot of the Bible in my life, but I am not sure I still qualify as a Christian, even tho I am a member of a church.

Of course, men wrote it. Who else? Who ever said otherwise? Did you think God one sat down at his typewriter and started banging away, to give us the lowdown on what was trumps and what was not? God supposedly inspired the writers, but men wrote it all down, apparently putting it in their own words, and could be something was lost in the transition.

Or maybe you atheists are right, and that there is no God. I don't know. Could be. Anything is possible.

But I do know there are 2000 contradictions and mistakes in the holy Bible. Does that increase my faith? No. Not in the Bible anyway.

Answer 6

Yes, I'm a Christian and have read the bible multiple times and still learning. Yes, it did strengthen my faith. The bible is very profound and runs a central thought throughout. I'd be interested to know which parts you found screams "men, men, men wrote this"...
Note: The bible is written by men, but inspired by God.

Answer 7

Why do you read it? Do you study it systematically? Or, do you read just to find things you do not understand so you have an excuse to scoff?
Most of those who do a serious study in order to attempt to "prove" it wrong, eventually believe it. For you it has the opposite effect-strange? Have you any idea how many men (and women) spend an 'entire lifetime' studying the Bible, because they have found it to be true. Your scoffing is from ignorance, not fact. Now you know.You are without excuse.

Answer 8

Yes, not all the way through yet. I love the Lord , and yes it has only served to strengthened my faith in Jesus Christ. I love reading my bible as it helps me to stay grounded in my life, it is a good reminder of just how much the Lord loves us all.

God bless.

Answer 9

I am still working on getting through the bible.. But I can't seem to ever finish ..lol cause I study and focus on it until understanding and Trying to remove all the teachings I had a child, so I can find truth. Truth of the Lord and not church teachings.

Answer 10

Men men men DID write it. However they were inspired by the Holy Spirit. We are not left to interpret it on our own either - Christ established a Church with a teaching authority to help us. What could be easier?

Cheers :-)