When somebody tells you a story, should you automatically believe it?

Question

Someone told me a story where this super-being exists that you can't look at or you'll die and made two people out of clay, then those two people had babies who populated the world.
Then this being killed everything on the planet except for ONE family, only a few thousand years ago.

Then those people repopulated the earth and this being picked a small club of people to be His favorites and then did all kinds of miracles and then had his people kill buttloads of other people over and over again (even though there's no history of any of this)

Then "God" (who is three people in one) sent one of himself to change everything again and so he could defeat Satan and rescue everybody in the world

they told me to use this incantation to summon this God, but I just didn't feel or see anything.

And the really scary part is that he told me that if I didn't believe this story, I'd die and burn forever!
Is this like one of those chain-mail scam things?

Who would believe this stuff?

Answer 1

The Bible makes those Nigerian lottery e-mails seem plausible by comparison.

Answer 2

You dont have to believe ALL of it, the Bible is just an allegory and is full of loose numbers and measurements and things are alluded to in parts as opposed to being chronicled like a journalist would track a news story. I think the whole Ark deal was bogus, how can one old guy (Noah) lead a pair of every last animal on earth, have a hand built wooden boat waiting for them, AND keep them from ripping each other apart while at sea for 40 days WHILE having enough provisions for his fam. and the animals he was saving? The Ark is for real, they have found wreckage of it on a mtn. side in Turkey but I think the great flood was more localized and he may have only had to save just the local flora and fauna.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I only believe things that I feel in my heart are true, if someone uses scare tactics to make you believe something, then you should question it. Things can also be taken out of context too, and sometimes be taken a little too literally. Remember the Bible is a compilation of stories that have been translated many many times. That is what you are questioning in a sarcastic way right?

Answer 5

You don't have to believe anything you hear from "someone".
You should decide for yourself what you want to believe.
Choose wisely though. Some of that story sounded a little like this book I read...

Answer 6

I've heard that story. It's actually pretty cool if it's told right. I guess you got a bad storyteller.

Stories are meant to instruct and inspire us. You should 'automatically' look for the lessons in them.

Answer 7

Wisdom is to high for a fool. Proverbs 24:7

Answer 8

Stories are nice.... but they needn't be believed or disbelieved automatically.
To be disbelieved, they need to contradict the worldview repeatedly.
To be believed, their passing needs to be demonstrated and not just told.

Otherwise they're just stories and no more.

Answer 9

You have to have it drilled into your head from birth, so that acceptance of the whole insane shooting-match is as automatic as acceptance of the fact that the sky is blue.

Answer 10

Ask P T Barnum