Can atheists name one good argument against the Bible that HASN'T been shot down?

Question

Can you do it?

I see atheists question the Bible all the time and ALL they do is rehash recycled questions that have ALREADY been explained and rebutted by Christians.

Leviticus 20:13 should be banned from being mentioned on this site as this has already been explained hundreds and hundreds of times. Ever heard of the straw man argument? That's what atheists are doing when they mention that verse and many others.

Agree?

Answer 1

You bring up the same old arguments therefore you have no right to ask the people you argue against not to do the same thing.

Liesel.

Answer 2

I really can't answer the question the way you are wanting is as,
I do believe in a higher power, but it's probably not yours.

Yes, there are the age old things people say: If God is infinite in his power, can he make a rock that he can't lift?

He is everything is he not?

Then you have to look at Buddha.

Sorry to tell everyone, he has more followers than Jesus.

Head spinning yet?

How about this, Some guy eats people for fun.

Hell awaits him. Did God not know he was going to do that?

But the sicko was made anyway and doomed to hell.

So, God knew hitler was going to be the monster he was.

But he let it happen.

This is why I believe in a higher power. Just not the powers
everyone else does.

I would not begin to think I have the power to understand
my creator when my kind learned to fly 100 years ago.

Think of this.

Your standing above an ant hill looking at the world they know.

The ants have no idea who you are. You don't even exist to them.

You can kill everything they know.

So, are you God?

Answer 3

I'm Christian. But, honestly, there are unanswered questions. I have questions. Maybe that makes me a bad Christian but it's true.

What this hinges on, is whether the person accepts the rebuttal as truth or not. I can say I think XYX, and you can say no, it's ABC because this book you don't believe says so. It doesn't work for me. At the end of the discussion I will still believe XYZ. I know that's not always the case, but I've seen it happen.

One that's got me really stumped is: If the earth is 6000 years old, why can we see stars that are millions of light years away? I attempted to answer that one once. I was all wrong. lol. I cannot answer that according to the Bible. I'm not sure at this point, that Genesis has to be taken exactly literally.

I'm very curios about what the responses will be here. Do you plan to answer them all? This could be interesting...

Answer 4

The god of the Bible gives you logical contradictions. he's all-loving, all-understanding, and all-functional, yet what we call "evil" exists. Christians declare god has a plan, yet also provides us loose will. yet predestination (God's plan) and freewill are compared to minded. there is also the challenge of countless regression. So, i do not trust on your god for an same reason i do not trust in a sq. circle. it truly is now to not say *some* form of god couldn't exist, yet i do not trust in it because there is not any data for it, and it has yet to be defined. also, purely because an idea is considerably believed and lengthy-sustained, that would not make the perception actual. i'm not declaring it truly is pretend, both, yet it truly is not any reason to trust it. Many us of a electorate perpetuate the historic myths of Christopher Columbus and George Washington, believing the former changed into out to educate that the earth changed into round and the latter truly quite chopped down a cherry tree and could not tell a lie. though considerably believed as we talk, those concepts are pretend. because i do not trust contained in the Christian god, I also do not trust Jesus changed into the human incarnation of that god. Jesus could o.k. have existed (though i have by no skill been presented with data to persuade me both way), yet there is not any data with the exception of the Bible that magnificent miracles were achieved, or that Jesus truly changed into divine.

Answer 5

Nice straw man.

Can atheists name one good argument against the Bible that HASN'T been shot down?

You're assuming that Christians have refuted all the arguments that people made against the Bible.

You're assuming it's only atheists making these arguments.

Who decides which arguments are good and which are bad?

Who makes the judgment on what is refuted in the Bible and what isn't? Many people have different interpretations of the Bible, there is no absolute standard.


The better question is can Chrisitian literalists ask a question that doesn't generalize, lie and set up bogus premises?

Answer 6

In Matthew 2:16 Herod kills all of the children around Bethlehem ages two and younger. You'd think someone might have noticed this. And yet, no secular historian has EVER mentioned this.

In Matthew 13:31-32 Jesus tells us that mustard seeds grow into the greatest of all trees. This would be difficult, given that they don't grow into trees at all.

In Matthew 2:1, we are told that Jesus was born while Herod was king. Herod died in 4 B.C. In Luke 2:1-5, we are told that that Jesus had not yet been born when Quirinius became governor of Syria (Mary was still pregnant when he started his taxation). Quirinius did not become governor until 6 A.D.--ten years after Herod died.

Rebut those.

Answer 7

Refuted? How?

One main argument atheists have against the Bible is it isn't supposed to be used as a basis for proving its own propositions. It's like using fairy tale stories to prove the existence of unicorns and dragons.

And of course atheists are going to "recycle" their questions. Technically these questions haven't been rationally shot down at all. The Church explains itself by generally being vague.

Take this for example: If God is truly all-good and all-powerful then why is there evil in the world? I've heard all the answers to this one, and frankly, I can't buy any of them. If this is indeed the nature of God, then surely he must be able to find a better way, regardless of our own limitations, to arrange things so that people (atheists) cannot mistake it.

This is true particularly for Christianity because it has a set of DOs and DONTs which people HAVE to follow. If God (deliberately or not) misrepresents himself to atheists then who do you think is to blame? Humans have limited minds and should be bound to follow what makes sense to them, they're inclined to do so--it's human nature. There's something funadamentally wrong with a God that compels his creatures to go against their nature especially if he was totally responisble for it in the first place.

I kind of digressed a little but that's one of my (condensed) arguments. I'm not really against Christianity per se, but I personally cannot subscribe to it.

Answer 8

And what solid, incontrivertable proof do YOU have that your God is real? Don't bother with "faith" or anything of the sort - it is SUBJECTIVE, not OBJECTIVE in nature.

A question for you: Why is it that your god claims to be able to eradicate all Evil in the universe - and claims to "hate" Evil, as well - yet does NOTHING to do so? He is "all-Powerful", is he not? He wishes to eradicate Evil, does he not? He is ABLE to eradicate all Evil, is he not? Then why doesn't he? Could it be that he DOES NOT EXIST?

To believe in an all-Powerful God which does not use that Power to eradicate that which he claims to fight against - and is able to eradicate at any moment he wishes - is not only foolhardy, it is beyond comprehension. Does your non-existent God actually WANT Evil to continue?

I'm not an atheist - I'm just willing to ask the questions you people have no real answers for.

Answer 9

I suppose that I could start at the beginning. The creation tale is fantasy; we know from science how it happened and it has nothing to do with the biblical story. The Adam and Eve tale is fiction, as we know from genetic evidence. The flood story is false, as can be seen by anyone with a shovel and the ability to count: the annual layers of the Antarctic ice cap go back millions of years. People do not live for hundreds of years; study genetics to find out why. I could keep this up all night, but it is bedtime. For more on this, see:

Answer 10

Well the argument that Leviticus 20:13 shows that the Bible demands gay be killed hasn't be shot down.