Why is the Bible the only book not subject to critical anaylsis?

Question

Take any other old document, and you will have teams of scientists deciphering it and decoding it's relevance to the society during the time in which it was written.

But not the Bible apparently. We are to take it's modern revised form as Gospel (pardon my pun). How foolish can people be?

The Bible was written from an ancient Hebrew prespective by various individuals of duboius scholarship.

"Divinely inspired"? Puh-leeze! Get a grip. Some really old Jews wrote some cool stuff, let's not get worked up over it, ok?

Answer 1

Isaiah 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

The books of men liter the ground, but God's Word, which has been under attack for more then two thousand years marches on.

Answer 2

This was already done a long time ago by many experts in many fields. Just because the "scientific method" can't argue with it's linguistical, historical, poetic, political, social, and semantical meanings, doesn't reduce its veracity one degree.
In other words, other fields of knowledge have other standards of proof that have been adapted and proven reliable in deciphering the meaning and relevance of ancient texts. You are once again outside the domain of science's expertise. I would think after a while that you people would get tired of getting caught with your pants down and your heads stuck where the sun won't shine. Not divinely inspired? Puh-leeze! GET A GRIP! Some really young and stupid person is going to post a "question" and challenge a proven text thousands of years old. Now don't get your little mind all worked up now, ya hear?

Answer 3

Because the Christians won't allow it. Ask your self who holds all the original scrolls that the Bible is translated from? Well the Church, Catholic church to be exact. For about a thousands years your average person could not own a Bible. In America Puritans Burned people at the stake for owning a Bible or a Crucifix. They don't allow people to examine it cause they are afraid they will loose power when it is discovered that they deliberately added, deleted, and withheld things to keep themselves in power. This was not an uncommon practice even in Jesus days. Any good study Bible will say how the temple priests edited and changed scrolls even back then. The Church in my opinion has too much power and it's given to them blindly by the people. This is the same church that hid Child molesting priests. So it also makes you wonder what else they are hiding. Don't ya think?

Answer 4

There is critical analysis of the Bible.

Mark Twain's "Letters From the Earth" was finally released in the 1960s, when I was a teenager. It helped me become an atheist.

The authors Karen Armstrong, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens immediately come to mind.

Do a web search. There is a lot out there.

Good luck.

Happy hunting!

Answer 5

Where in God/dess' name did you get THIS idea??? Of course the Bible is subject to critical analysis! See Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell, etc.

Answer 6

I can assure you there are millions of scholars who study the Bible,and most of the Bible has proven true.

Answer 7

Most any religion will tell you the same about their special book.

Answer 8

Oh, but it is!

The only difference is that most other type of critics don't have to worry about the wrath of God.

Answer 9

because it's a worst collection of tribal story book worshiped by holy dumb a** donkeys by parental labeling.

sorry , my words are too non Atheist.

Answer 10

Religion is still sometimes afforded respect that it does not deserve.