what is your opinion for or against Christianity or the Bible?

Question

Please express your views on Christianity or thr Bible. Do you think their are mistakes in the Bible? If so where are they to be found? Please be Clear as to where and what they are? You can also send all veiw pionts to my 360 page or e-mail at [e-mail] If you prove your piont to me you may get paid for your answer. Thank you

Answer 1

As a life-long Christian, I am definitely for Christianity. As for "mistakes" in the Bible, there are many unfortunate mis-translations of various words. Y/A is not the forum to discuss specific words or where they are found.

For a sincere seeker of Truth, these mistranslated words give us the opportunity to use a concordance and dictionary to understand the true meaning of words.

Many Christians never study on their own, they rely on their Sunday School teachers or what they pick up from sermons, and talking with other mis-informed people. They never get pass childhood understanding of the Bible. Many stop going to church because they don't see any change in themselves or other "christians".

There's a huge difference in Christianity and churchanity. Churchanity is a religion... Christianity is a Way of Life. I have nothing to prove, and neither does God, and I would not accept pay for answering your questions.

Answer 2

Yes, I do see mistakes in the Bible. To be fair, this is inevitable when you have a book 1) compiled from hundreds of authors, 2) spanning many centuries, 3) who didn't know as much about the physical world as we do toay, 4) and the book was translated and retranslated and retranslated.

Anybody who says there aren't any contradictions has either never read it, or is trying to play the creative game of rationalizing away contradictions until two interpretations are vauge enough to accept.

As for mistakes, the Bible says bats are birds (Lev 11:113,19 & Deut 14:11-18), that rabbits chew cud (Lev 11:6), says locusts and beetles have four legs (Lev 11:21-23), implies that the earth is flat (Matthew 4:8), and that snakes eat dirt (Gen 3:14). Nevermind the fact that the two creation stories contradict each other, the two stories of what Judas did with the money contradict each other, etc.

Do I expect all Christians to be Biblical literalists? No. But I will challenge those who claim that the Bible has absolutely no mistakes and offers stores that literally match reality.

What do I think of Christianity? Personally I find it to be a ridiculous self-loathing religion, but it obviously works for some people, so to each their own I say.

Answer 3

I had a discussion on religion with a devout Jewish friend of mine and she said that the Hebrew word for 'on' and 'near' are about the same and were probably translated wrong in reference to Jesus walked on the water.
I look at the Bible's translation many centuries ago as a form of the telephone game. Each time it's told and translated it's changed a little bit.

Answer 4

My opinion is the bible is that it is a read but can easily be misread and used as a means to spread hate and evil. My opinion of christianity is that it is an over rooted, rotting tree that will one day choke it's self with it's own diseased, infected and heavy roots. I choose to walk away from religion because it did nothing for me the more I read and expanded my world of thought I could not believe that a god was needed in this day and age but was is needed is an idealogy that we will flourish with becoming one and doing for all and what is best for all.

Answer 5

This is the biblical god that Christians worship!

Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)

But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)

Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)

"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)

These are some nuts of the bible:
David = Bi-sexual adulterous murderer and resident nut job
Lot = Incestuous lying asshole
Samson = Hung around with prostitutes, committed suicide while killing his religious enemies
Japhthah = Burned his own daughter on an altar
Solomon = had 300 concubines
Abraham = pathological liar who was willing to kill his own son. Married to his own sister.
Noah = Chronic drunk who liked to pass out naked with his junk exposed to male family members.

Answer 6

I am a firm Bible believer, and believe there are no mistakes in the Bible. But there are what appear to be contradictions, but to me these are opportunities to test believers on their faith. It is easier to understand through logic and reasoning many things, but if you believe the Bible and the Bible states God cannot lie and yet you find many contradictions such as is Jesus Christ God or not which is by far the most important issue of the Bible since the Bible plainly states there is ONLY ONE GOD! Not two or three by any imagination, one does not equal three or two. So I must conclude God did purpose to cause division by Jesus Christ as Jesus told us plainly; Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
And how many Christians will say we are not perfect but Jesus Christ commanded us to be perfect; Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Jesus Christ even told a man the way to be perfect; Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Luke 6:40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
God purposed to make contradictions so that religious people would not believe and feel reasonable in their belief, but I see these as greater oppertunities of study.
Look at Moses the writter of the first books tell us do not make images of things in heaven and turns right around and makes the Ark of the covenant which is an image of Heaven very much as the Golden calf was made by Arron.

Answer 7

I'd categorise the bit about the mustard seed (Matthew 13:31-32) being the smallest seed as an error as there are smaller seeds.

There are plenty of other examples of mistakes in the bible but this is a nice clearcut one.

Answer 8

Your questions appears Highly Complex as the issue of the "Bible" is as distorted and complex issue as any.

As you ask about "Bible mistakes" I trust you ask "are there mis-interpretations there; to this I agree as the text is so misinterpreted "Religions are borne of them"...

With that in mind, "Proof" is about what one wishes to see and not see into it.

What you will get with your question will be profound in that: you will be told "God" makes no mistakes (they buy into the bible 100%) you will get those whom buy "out oif the bible 100%; and in between, a few will actually explore and in this you will find Truth.

Answer 9

Mistakes: Genesis
: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
There is no God.
Continuing with your theme however:

5: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The reference to "he." A creator god should not have a gender. What does the magic sky fairy have a gender for?

26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Many Christians claim theirs is MONOtheistic. Right here is a plurality. Jumping from "he" to "we." Shift in perspective is erroneous.

27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
If our fathers were a model for god and our fathers failed, what does this say about god?

17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Oh a lie. This God lies. They did not die. And what is his fear of knowledge of the ability to reason, of the ability to analyze. Is he afraid that they will see him for the fraud he is.

15": And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

"16": A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

"17": And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

BLATANT PLAGIARISM from Gilgamesh. Utnapishtim built the ark and Ea told him of the eventual rains he would bring.

The spear thrust into Jesus side (euthanasia BTW) was a blatant rip off of what happened to Odin. Again Plagiarism.

Basically the Bible is nothing other than a hodge podge of various earlier religions rolled into one.

Diet:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/texts/english/religion/kjv/kjv-pub.o2w&act=text&offset=4341933&textreg=0&query=swine

Yup even his only begotten son Jesus H Christ did not follow these rules. Why would "god" break his own rules? Rules that said that these were unclean to all the children of israel?

ANyway, wat a bore.

Answer 10

A list with hundreds of biblical absurdities can be found in my source.

Christianity is nonsense, as are all Abrahamic religions.