Atheists, have you read the Christian bible front to back, and then again?

Question

Some of you atheists, many of you, have read the bible without any help from this rogue and vagabond. I bring the matter up here because, If you find yourself in any kind of converstion with an avid Christian, it's useful to know the bible from cover to cover. So many Christians do not read it, will not read it, ever, and so they adlip, add verses, paragraphs, fake beliefs, happenings that never happened, god's love that was weak in the offing, and excuses for some really wacko stuff about talking animals, magic, ghosts, rape, incest, slavery, angels flying around like jets, human sacrifice, even aliens and heaven's being on the dark side of Mars, you name it. Learn not only chapter & verse but also the titles of "books" and page & verse numbers, etc. It's really easy to show many a Christian as the unknowing chap that he probably is, but why not go all the way?

Answer 1

Be careful about reading that book. Read it a couple more times and you too will turn into an atheist.

Answer 2

The Jewish Torah and the OT are very almost same, besides the indisputable fact that the ordering is definitely distinctive. yet non secular Jews additionally examine the Talmud, so because it incredibly is distinctive better credit interpreting once you're serious. The Koran is a single e book, no questions asked. it incredibly is, although, in basic terms acknowledged in Arabic. That extra or much less moots translational blunders, yet demands the student to be very proficient in Arabic. once you're in basic terms casually involved, you could examine it in translation, yet you could discover that passages you're prepared on are no longer appropriate translated (or argued to be such). The Bible has replaced extremely lots, and distinctive branches of christianity do have extremely distinctive variations of it. maximum Catholics have self belief which you ought to no longer in basic terms examine the Bible, as its which potential has replaced lots and it incredibly is annoying to interpret devoid of "desirable" education. The Catholic church acknowledges many apocryphal writers as inspired. it is not that distinctive from the placement with the Jewish Talmud, and it boils all the way down to an identical concern: distinctive better credit interpreting. If it incredibly is in basic terms a familial argument, you could %. up any Bible and examine it. i might propose that while you're basically involved interior the discern or Christ and what he incredibly mentioned, you're able to don't extra useful than interpreting the Jefferson Bible. It has the super benefit of being short. extremely.

Answer 3

Read it once in full; started reading it again some years later - skipped the latter half of the OT, did most of the NT, and then thought 'why am I wading through this rubbish?'

I think knowing chapter and verse can be useful when playing Christians at their own game, but I'd rather leave that to others.

For me, religions don't stand or fall on the accuracy or otherwise of any religious text - the crucial point is the existence of a deity. Since there obviously isn't one, the rest is irrelevant.

CD

Answer 4

Atheists, it would be unchristian for me to insult you, but I want you to know that you can't prove that the Bible is fiction for several reasons.

If the Bible is fiction, then the people who wrote it were obviously also seeking to entertain. They are not trying to entertain people, but they want to get the word out. If you want a book to fiction, then you label it and put it in the Library that way. The publishers obviously did not intend that, since they decided to publish it in all many different languages and then it would be considered a folktale. The scrolls have been proven to date back from several centuries, back when paper was scarce and people only wrote what needed to be written what was important. Intelligence is impossible to come from evolution, for the world's complexity can not be driven by one darn ball of compressed matter exploding into shreds all across the universe. If the so called "ball of matter" were a solid chemical, then the substances contained it would not be able to bond together either, such as when oil and water separate. The densitys can not be combined in a mass that big, for it would not even begin to form. Not only that, if you really read the bible closely, you would find that there was nothing in existence before God. So there can not be a ball just sitting in space forever and ever, because it was created from nothing and therefore, only intelligence could have created it, so even if all matter came from such, it would have to have come in to existence by something. Souls on the other hand, are not made of matter, and do not require intelligence to create themselves. God is superior,
Amen.

Answer 5

I've read it cover to back, but not then again. I've been asking questions lately that really enlighten me to the Christian outlook and Biblical support for said outlook. It's quite... interesting.

Answer 6

They don't seem to care. Pointing out that their beloved 'Messianic' prophesies are really horrendously bad misreadings of the Hebrew just falls on deaf ears.

I studied Greek as well. Church history up until circa 500 CE. Gruesome doings.

Answer 7

I did read it cover to cover once, but I prefer not to do it again. I like fiction, but it has to be good fiction to get a second look from me.

Answer 8

Not literally, but I know most of the Bible because I studied it for over ten years. Horrible literature. It does make good reading for a mythology class.

Answer 9

I agree it's nice to be able to "reason" with them on their own playing field, but doing so still won't change the fact they're completely out of touch with reality.

Answer 10

you'd be surprised that the ones who are louder and more specific in their criticism of the holy books are the ones who have actually read it all from cover to cover.