I am constantly able to reference biblical verses while most Christians can only reference your typical John 3:16 types. And most of the time when they are debating with me they actually claim that certain verses aren't in the bible but I physically show them from one of the 8 bible's I own and they just stand there with a dumb look on their faces. Doesn't it make logical sense to know as much about your religion before you "Blindly follow it?
2007-08-05 05:45:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i think is becuse we weigh the facts and if some one questions us we have a resonable arument and my family and well as others i know blindly follow what ever there told....
i find it rather sad dont you
2007-08-05 05:52:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some, not all atheists are raised in christianity so it only makes sense that they know the bible. Aside from which, they tend to read the whole thing straight through without skipping to this verse or that so they get a better picture of what it is all about.
I had to buy a student bible for the comparative religions classes I took in college. This bible gave me a number of reading tracks - a few chapters here, skip to here, skip to there. You never see enough getting snippets to understand what's actually going on but you become very well versed in those few snippets and it becomes all that seem to be spit back.
2007-08-05 05:51:59 · answer #2 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Quite honestly, I learned to read when I was four. I read the Bible aloud to my mother, as she worked in the home. I, too, find it alarming when people who proclaim to have a particular faith have never done the research on that faith. I am Christian, I have read the Bible many times, and it makes me a more open person, I believe. I have found that many religions rely more upon someone telling them what the Bible says, than actually having the people read it for themselves. I find this sad, since that means those people will only get a version of that particular person's meaning of something out of context.
Oh, Hi! I just wanted to say that I've never met an athiest who had read the entire Bible, before!
2007-08-05 05:55:16 · answer #3 · answered by laurel g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most are not taught. The clergy of Christendom have reasons for never letting the laity know anything. Money and power. In fact, the RCC once issued orders a few years ago, to discourage any Bible reading. Never mind true Christians need and must know what Jehovah and Jesus want us to do. Or, how to determine what is true according to the Bible.
Instead they are told what their grandparents told them and believe that. Never mind you can't tell the same story to 5 people passed along one to another and get the same story on the other end. This explains how so much variations happen. Looking IN the Bible never occurs to them.
2007-08-05 05:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christian and good for you. It is great to know that other beliefs read or have read the Bible. It has alot of great information. I think that some Christians don't want to use the Bible to debate, I know I don't, because knowing Jesus is an experience and just not head knowledge. Keep us the reading though.
2007-08-05 06:03:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of atheists make a study of the Bible, deliberately looking for material to use against Christians, for reasons only they are aware of. Seems a colossal waste of time, to me.
Others do it in order to defend their own faith...beliefs...ahh...lack of faith...well, whatever you want to call it!...from Christians who, for reasons only THEY are aware of, constantly attack that fa...oh, never mind!
Anyway, there are a few who are honestly curious, and do study it with an eye toward learning something new. I respect those, at least.
And you are right, more Christians ought to study their own religious texts. I, myself, own many Bibles...I haven't counted lately. There are several versions on my computer, in a program called "E-Sword".
You are also right, that too many simply "blindly follow it" and are put to rout when some enterprising atheist shows them some things in the Bible that most Christians are not aware of.
But, you ought to know, there are a few who do, truly, follow Christ...
You might be able to show me something I didn't already know...anything is possible...
But you will never show me anything that will shake my faith in God.
2007-08-05 06:02:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is nothing new. In the XVIII century, the atheists and similar groups made a study of the Bible to try to descredit it.
Knowing the Bible by heart does not make you a believer and not knowing it does not make you necesarily a bad Christian
2007-08-05 05:59:31 · answer #7 · answered by nadie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowing the Bible dosent save you. Believing it does. i win 8).. If you know so much about the Bible what is the main theme of it? If you cant tell me that you dont understand anything in the bible.
2007-08-05 06:03:45 · answer #8 · answered by Balla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You stopped the thumping and opened the Book.
Once a doubt enters the mind, you no longer blindly believe but look to find answers for yourself.
You took the time to find out what you believe (or don't).
2007-08-05 05:53:50 · answer #9 · answered by Nurse Winchester 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. However, I don't blindly follow it.
By the way, why would an atheist own 8 bibles? Just curious.
GOD bless
2007-08-05 05:52:02 · answer #10 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't remember questioning of you're limp-wristed sissies and that actual isn't a generic assumptions. you're violent because of the fact the shootings of abortion docs and bombings of clinics exhibit. Bullying is a sort of violence and you're very responsible of that. The bible could not be a fairy tale, despite the fact that it actual isn't a literal or independent record.
2016-10-19 09:26:46 · answer #11 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋