do you seriously expect me to believe that...?

Question

1. an apple can actually provide knowledge about good and bad
2. that snakes can actually talk(parrots can, not snakes)
3. that a virgin can give birth without first having sex
4. that one guy alone was able to build a boat big enough for himself, a few other people, two of each animal, and enough food for everyone
5. that a body of water magically split in two for several minutes
6. that the sun revolves around the earth
7. that interbreeding doesnt cause defects or deformities
8. that its okay to kill everyone in a flood cause its easier to start over
9. and that the bible makes a better use of your imagination than the kamasutra?

seriously, do you expect me to believe all of that without any proof whatsoever? and even though science says otherwise? and when school says to use your critical thinking skills and not take everything at face value? do you really expect me to believe all of the stuff I mentioned?

Answer 1

Yes. Actually, it is your creator who expects you to believe it. To believe in him. It is called faith.

Answer 2

Ok, here's my opinion.

Do you expct me to believe:

That its only a coincidence the earth is at the EXACT location so that an inch closer to the sun, we'd all burn and an inch further, we'd all freeze.
That the EXACT mixture of gases for our lungs just HAPPENS to be the mixture of gases in our atmosphere.
That I can think, see, smell, taste, and function properly by mere coincidence.
That life was formed by bacteria 100 billion years ago
That I came from a monkey
That there is no particular reason that there is gravity holding me and everything else on this earth
That there is no absolute reason that humans need water, which happens to never run out.
That the human brain is the most complex thing in the universe, yet it is only by chance that we developed one.
That simply by the way we have developed that it coincidently takes exactly one man and one woman to make a baby

Just think about it. It is next to impossible for all of those things to JUST HAPPEN on their own. Yes, I expect you to believe that a man could build an ark, especially when God gave him over 100 years to do it with the help of his sons.
Yes, God destroyed everyone, but not to make it easier for Him. Just thik where we'd be today if we started out that corrupt thousands of years ago.
Yes, the snake could talk. He wasn't just a snake. He was the devil himself.
Oh and no one ever said it was an apple that Adam and EVe ate. But even if it was, its not the fact that it was the fruit being eaten, it was the fact that they sinned which opened their eyes.

Anything else?

Answer 3

I totally get where you are coming from and I'm a Christian. It sounds crazy at first. But, once you start to think about where we came from, our purpose, etc. there is no logical explanation. That's when we need to examine the bible further. Could this book really be true? The only way to discover it is to open your mind and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you (even if you don't believe in the HS). I'm telling you...if you truly want to understand God will show you. I think some of the stuff you mentioned sounds crazy, but I believe 100% without a shadow of a doubt.

Answer 4

1. An apple was never mentioned. The ACTION of disobeying God's commandments is what could lead to greater light and truth...not the fruit itself.

2. I don't know about the whole snake thing...I doubt it was actually a snake...but I don't know.

3. Ever heard of en vitro fertilization? Virgins can give birth now-a-days, right? :o)

4. It took hundreds of years and a lot of help from God. I doubt it was just him by himself.

5. Yes...but not magially...God operates according to natural law. It took all night to split too, not a lot of people remember that little fact.

6. The sun doesn't. No scripture says it does. In fact, "...The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator." Notice the scripture says the Earth is moving and doesn't mention the sun.

7. It doesn't if the genes are perfect. They'll just become less perfect...exactly as they are now.

8. God did that so that children had a chance to be righteous as they grew up. It wasn't a punishment or anything...it was a nessicary result of a world filled with sin. Kids couldn't grow up righteous - they were brainwashed into evil before they could choose.

9. It all depends on you...

(I am a scientist.)

Search for truth with an open mind and never give up.

Answer 5

I don't believe any of that, and yet I believe in God. I think faith actually demands complex thought and reasoning. I read the Bible as the stories of my ancestors in the faith. They wrote about their experiences of God and how they interpreted the events of their lives. Does that mean it's all historically accurate? no. We can learn and be strengthened in faith by reading the Bible, but also using our minds and reason to approach scripture with both heart and mind.

Answer 6

The Bible didn't say it was an "apple". It was fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

If God can create the world in 6 days, He can most certainly arrange for a snake to talk.

The virgin DID give birth.

It took Noah over 200 years to build the ark and yes, he did build it! Ever see the stories of the ark they found on Mt. Ararat?!

Yes, the sea did split and yes, God did that!

It wasn't considered "interbreeding" because it was NECESSARY and it was before there was so much gene polution.

And yes, it was "ok to kill everyone in a flood and start over" because that was what God CHOSE to do.

The Bible is God's inerrant Word. Period.

Answer 7

Science has proven we use less than 10% of our human brains. Given that fact, do you honestly think we could EVER have it even within our very limited capability to grasp GOD & what HE is capable of? That's why God gave us FAITH. It's an amazing little tool. When you use it, it grows & opens up a whole new world around you by allowing you to see God in action. On another note, why in the world would you think that the God who CREATED the entire universe out of NOTHING would ever have to follow any rules, laws or theories that we, in all our simpleness, have happened to stumble across? Science doesn't disprove God. It only unravels how He works.

Answer 8

a theologian said once " are we today so smart that we take figuratively what the ancients took literally or are we today so stupid that we are taking literally what the ancients took figuratively? i think its the latter." the ancients were not literate (only the very rich were literate), so they depended on the oral tradition to pass on laws, morality,etc. stories that the illiterate could understand, symbolism; however, times have changed but people still try to believe the old stories as absolute truth.

Answer 9

The core concept of l♥ve as taught by Jesus was a RADICAL departure from Jewish thought. Jesus didn't teach a religion, he was an enlightened man whose story was embellished by Rome and made a mockery of what he taught. The entire thing is allegorical. The scientific description of creation is as close to the events as possible with the information we have.

Jesus and Buddha (an Atheist) would have seen eye to eye on most issues, with Jesus arguing that unconditional l♥ve is the shortcut to enlightenment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-1JVctSOY
♥Agape♥
♥Blessed Be♥
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Answer 10

No, I don't. And honestly i'm shocked when i see that people actually believe these, EDUCATED people, truely amazing, I have no idea how they manage to believe in these and still pass in science!

Answer 11

no, i dont. but i believe it because my faith is strong enough. it may be hard to believe, but its all true. if you listened to the stuff that made more sense, you might actually be saved, and be able to spend an eternity with God.