How can religious believe everything in a 2000 year old story book?

Question

I will NEVER come up with an answer as to why human beings, so diligently believe every word they read in the bible, without questioning the sources, the time line etc...
Most of it is good moral values ill give you that, but to take that as proof of existence of god, is unfeasibly ignorant and foolish!!
Does this mean that you believe that everything you see on TV must also be true??
Will any of you believers admit, that there is a 0.001 percent chance that some of the passages written in the bible are untrue? and if not, how can you back up your faith with positive, hard, sound, solid, material facts?

RE cuzimblondelikethat
Someone has got to make you idiots see sense, that your god bothering logic is bulls£#!
Take it as you like it, i just despair in the vulnerable petty minds of self righteous christians and like minded religious people.
You would all still be living in mud huts and stoning people for the way they look, if religion had anything to do with it!!

Answer 1

They lack the ability to think and question life.

Answer 2

Actually I used to agree with you, it's just that I had an experience of God through Jesus one day and then I started from a different presuppostition. Yours is that there is no God, but it would be because you have not met him. After I met him I started to look more closely at the claims of the Bible, and realised that I may have believed a few things that weren't true. I don't like to take anything on blind faith, so I really have looked hard to be sure.
If you feel like looking at it yourself, I can recommend some books.
'Why trust the Bible,' by Amy Orr-Ewing gives a balanced view of the validity of the Bible
'In 6 days: why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation' explodes the myth that science is in opposition to faith.

There is a website I've found that explains further.
If you take the time to listen to Christians, we can assure you that we are not a bunch of brain washed thickies. The Bible tells us to use our reason to believe, never does it ask us to believe blindly.

Answer 3

Actually the Bible goes back about 3500 years. Its only the New Testament that is 2000 years old. Why shouldn't I believe it. The question is, Why don't you? I know the God of the Bible is true.
I know the time lines of the Bible. I actually teach them in schools. They all make perfect sense and go hand in hand with the Jewish history.
The existence of God isn't just from the Bible (although it is more than enough to believe) , creation itself proves who He is and that He is real.
NO the Bible is 100% true. It has to be, because everything else in the world is a lie.
You believe that the grass is green or the sky is blue. Why? Not just because you see with your eyes, but because its true and you know it. You know that 1 + 1 is 2. Why? Because you know its true. But prove to me that the grass isn't pink, or sky isn't green, or that 1+1 isn't 5. I'd be a fool to not believe them. The evidence of God is all around. Why do you doubt?
If the bible is just 0.001 percent wrong then all of it is wrong. (how would we know what to believe.) It is God's will for us to have truth, His Word is truth, God is truth.
Most people don't want to believe in all the Bible because they don't like somethings within it. for instance that Homosexuality is wrong. So they the Bible is wrong. But what if the Words are true and homosexuality is wrong? It turns our world upside down. (Or the right way up as we Christians believe.) It puts things into perspective, that we have missed for thousands of years. It helps us to understand what life is all about. Why we are here. Aren't these questions that mankind have been looking for years?
If the Bible isn't completely true, then what hope is their for humanity? Everything else in this world offers nothing else but lies and deception.

Answer 4

What a bitter man you are. You negate the truth of something because it is old/
Do you believe the news on CNN (McNews) or FOX?
Religious zealots may irritate you but they are not half as irritating as people like you who criticize other's faith in the accurate preservation of ancient manuscripts (we are talking about historic documents here, not the question of whether or not they were written by the inspiration of God).
I too asked these questions and researched the matter in depth and concluded that the King James version of the Bible is sufficiently accurate to be both historically correct and morally clear in its message.
You may not like the message and you may hate the people who try and give it to you, but your lack of attention to detail in researching the history of the Book, tells me you are more troubled by the message of the Bible to your heart, than the possibility it may be inaccurate.
Do you have the same contempt for the Qu'ran and the Vedic texts of India?
I think we should be told which books you have studied which have led to your conclusion.

Answer 5

I just started reading an interesting book by Father Daniel Harrington SJ on the historical Jesus. St. Anthony's Messenger Press. It is a balanced work based on just the first 10 pages of a 122 page book. Catholics do not take absolutely everything in the Bible to be literal history. He discusses the Bible in terms of real Biblical scholarship vs the marketing hype.

What scholars have determined vs emotional utterances not grounded in real research. If you look for books which are firmly grounded in good Biblical scholarship to read in tandem with the Bible, you won't feel this way because you may be reacting to some of the reactions of average people who read the Bible vs what some of the scholarship tells us.

In this book he also has addressed so far why certain books were left out of the New Testament canon, other topics..

I do not work for the publisher. I read around the Bible to understand the Bible though.

Back to my reading of the book!

Answer 6

Wow, I could admit, i savor your skill to proceed to assert a similar element back and back back, devoid of regard to data, each and all of the at the same time as touting technology. It takes a courageous (or ignorant) person to try this. I certainly have not got the tummy for it. i'm no longer able to even record the claims which you're making in this passage, as there purely isn't sufficient time. i will take purely the 2d sentence. You declare: A) faith relies upon thoughts. B) The Bible incorporates made-up thoughts. C) human beings alive 2000 years in the past knew no longer something approximately technology. D) human beings alive 2000 years in the past knew no longer something approximately actuality. yet each and each of those assumptions is provided devoid of knowledge. what's extra, each and each is provably unfaithful. i've got not got time to catalog the blunders interior the relax part of the virtually-paragraph you have written, much less best them with data and good judgment. So why do you get the impact that your rant is something extra suitable than very own opinion, forcefully pronounced?

Answer 7

Oh, right, I'm sorry. Your repetitive insults have completely opened my eyes. And I will always be amazed that you believe everything you're told and take it for granted, without thinking twice about it. Nothing in the Bible has ever been proved wrong, contrary to what you might think. You know, people like you annoy me and shouldn't waste their time bringing Christians down, because it's not going to change what we believe. Why don't you finish high school, then we can talk?

EDIT: Angry, much? Ever heard of the "ad hominem" fallacy? It's an argument that goes nowhere because someone is just attacking the other person instead of the argument, instead of keeping their cool and seeing things from all perspectives. I take it you're quite good at arguing that way?

Answer 8

Well I do because God has personally shown Himself to me by healing me...then there is this one guy by the name of Dr. Robert Dick Wilson who said," I have made it an invariable habit never to accept an objection to a statement of the Old Testament without subjecting it to a most through investigation, linguistically and factually." He holds a PhD from Princeton and is author of...A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament. Without missing a single syllable, he can repeat from memory the entire New Testament in Hebrew and can do the same with a large portion of the Old Testament. He speaks forty-five languages."
I have enough trouble with just English but I would certainly hold him as an authority on the subject.

Then there is also Henry M Morris PhD, a respected scientist, who points out, "It must be extremely significant that, in view of the great mass of corroborative evidence regarding the Biblical history of these periods, there exists today not one unquestionable find of archeology that proves the Bible to be in error at any point."

Answer 9

The bible on one hand is not to be taken 100% as is. It is a mystery that is to be interperated. However there is one key piece of evidence that gives the Gospels their legitimacy. Most of the disciples who wrote the gospels/books of the bible/were simply there were executed for their claims. They claimed they eye witnessed Jesus back from the dead. How do we know they aren't lying? Because they did not benefit from it. They would have rather died in horrific ways (and did die, such as getting skinned alive) rather than say that it was a lie and it was all a hoax and stay alive. What benefit could dying have given them? Only if they believed could dying be worth it. Not only that, but people who knew them and knew who they were accepted what they said. Instead of saying that they were crazy, they listened. For this, the evidence shows that Christianity is true based on the validity of the eyewitness accounts. I don't take it as proof of a God, but it sure is compelling evidence, that and the concept of God is a sure handy explanation for how everything is the way it is (such as creation).

Answer 10

No Paul himself congratulated the Bereans on questioning what they were being told. You might check out the work of such scholars as Gary Habermas, Norman Geisler,and Paul Maier to see why they believe. Or get the book The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel who was an atheist who attempted to disprove Christianity. You might find why people come to believe in Christianity, if you are serious about your question.

Answer 11

An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.

someone very dear very sacred once said ::
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.