How can people base their lives around a book that is blatantly contradictive?

Question

And not only contradictive, but blatantly immoral. They claim that the bible teaches morals.....but practically in every scripture, there are stories containing rape, sodomy, homosexuality, murder, intoxication, or fornication.....the six of MANY things that Christians, themselves, are against.
How can they not see the flaws, the contradictions, the fallacies, the inaccuracies? And they follow it so blindly, and without question. Why?

For those who want me to state my sources. I am a former Christian, I have read the bible, and if you'd like a more conveinent list of contradictions and fallacies pertaining to the bible.....look up the Skeptics Annotated Bible. Now you know I'm not talking out of my ***.

Robin: To answer your question. I don't consider it an obsession. I consider it standing up for my beliefs like all people should do. I find that Christians are sticking their noses in way too many places where they don't belong, such as government laws, abortion clinics, rights of homosexuals. With their so called "righteous" crap, they are impeding on my way of life, and it irritates me. Does that answer your question?

Answer 1

What I don't understand is how anyone could live their life based on ONE book. That's pretty much putting all your eggs in one basket and hoping you're right. Not reading other books or learning other ideas cuts you off from the infinite potential of human experience. Sad.....

Answer 2

The Bible contains no contradictions. All of the "contradictions" have been explained, and usually with better reasoning then anything I've ever heard from an atheist.

As far as apparent hypocrisy, the Bible is about God and those who believe in Him and the experiences they had. It is not a book listing all of the things God ever did, for you to pick apart and try to find fault with. Even if you try, you fail (see above).

Flaws? Where? I see no fallacies. There are no inaccuracies. Examples would be nice, but if you had any, you would have listed them, now wouldn't you have?

Answer 3

Try reading Richard Dawkins book 'The God Delusion'.
He has a theory that when we are young we have been programmed to accept the teachings of our elders. This means that when told not to eat berries or not to play with the lions we will automatically obey. This would have a survival value for us. Unfortunately this also means that when we are told about religion by some one in authority we accept this as true even when we get older and start to see the flaws in the story.
Most children grow up and adopt the religion of their parents with very few of them changing or leaving the religion altogether.
This theory may not be true but he also cites other views given by other people.

Answer 4

Without looking it up just off the top of your mind what book and chapter does Paul talk about there being no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus?


The point of the question is...... that if you do not know the answer to this question that anyone familiar with the Bible would know you don't have any right to be telling people about what's in the Bible.

Answer 5

Try reading Quran. You are not find any such phrase related to sex activities. It is true Word of God never altered a word in it by humans. A great civilization was created based on Quran within 40 years after Prophet Mohammad died when Christian Europe was in their darkest period of history. If you don't believe me read History of Islam written by Western scholars. You will find their names on internet if you write on yahoo search strip History of Islam.

Answer 6

The BIble is not condoning these stories.. It is telling what happened. You kind of have to read the whole thing to get the message.. You can't take a verse out of context or by it's self.

Answer 7

Obviously you need a bible teacher who can help with the bible.

1 Cor 10:23-24.

Answer 8

"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." --- Thomas Jefferson

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ is the greatest fiction of human history.” (Lord Bishop of Canterbury Commission, the Spiritual Head of England, 1910.)

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, the blood sacrifice of the lamb of God, atonement are not the teachings of Jesus. These are all inventions of Saint Paul who never really met Jesus.” (Hastings Rashdall, The Theory of Good and Evil)

"Initially there were 34 gospels that were compiled by word of mouth. Four were chosen for unclear reasons and 30 were left behind [burned]. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

“There is strong reason to believe that St. Paul fabricated the belief system of Christianity from Zoroastrian mythology. In order to hide Paul’s plaigerism… Christians burned the library of Alexandria in 390 A.D. Books in that library kept Mithra’s original story of what Pauline Doctrine is an almost exact copy. (George Sarton , Introduction to History of Sciences) ,

Answer 9

It's blatantly fallacious as well but that never stopped anyone from believing in it.

World is flat or a circle? wtf
Every animal was spontaenously created 6000 years ago? Are you on crack?
The sun revolves around the earth? I don't think so..

Answer 10

The truth is not pretty.

If you want pretty try one of one of the religions that don't require you to repent of the sin in your life.

edit:

That would be any belief system other than Christianity.