I understand that the disbelief in God originates from the lack of factual evidence, but when did the most translated, most read, and most circulated book(s) (plural if the undeniable similarities in religious writings are accepted) become discredited? There is no factual evidence to discredit the Bible in the first place. (please correct me if that statement was false -with factual evidence of course.) So, what provokes the doubt in truth of the words of our ancestors?
2007-10-15 14:43:52 · 12 answers · asked by Mike 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bandycat: Ezekiel 3:18-20 reads differently according to the New American Bible. And the description of our earth is round, with a dome separating our world from space (Genesis 1:6). This was before we discovered the earth was round. I doubt Columbus read the Bible. :P
2007-10-15 14:55:37 · update #1
If your going to take the time to respond to the question please cite your sources!
2007-10-15 15:00:56 · update #2
Bandycat5 says it well. But it won't matter since you guys just dismiss all the evidence. It is a fact that the bible is a heavily edited book of stories, many of which were taken from other religions. Most of these stories are ridiculous on their face and can not be proven to have any basis in fact.
2007-10-15 14:52:58 · answer #1 · answered by Lionheart ® 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Satan! One of his aims is to get people to disbelieve the Bible as the Word of God. Yet the Bible would undoubtedly be the greatest piece of literature ever produced. Many people are unaware that whilst the Bible was written by about 44 different men, it had only one author being the Lord Himself. the bible was written over a period of 1600 years and none of the writers knew that they were in fact writing only a part of a book. Virtually none of the writers ever met each other. The first 5 books were penned by moses who wrote about creation, the flood, and joseph. This obviated the fact that the lord Himself dictated all these events to moses as he was never there to know about all the events which he wrote. When all the writing were completed, the Lord was able to bring them all together to form a perfect book.
Unbelievers should spend time reading the Scriptures and they will start to take the Lord seriously. An example of the authenticity of the Bible can be found in the book of Job in the Old Testament Ch.26 v.7 where the Lord declared that He hangs the earth off nothing, It is simply suspended in space. It was only a few hundred years ago that man discovered that the world was round and not flat. There is heaps of evidence to support the authenticity of the bible.
2007-10-16 00:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by mandbturner3699 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the original ideas of the bible were authentic but think of it like that game that children play: One person tells a story to the next and they pass it on etc etc and by the time it gets back to the original person it is a totally different story only based on the same idea. each person adds a little bit of their own translation. The same has been true for the bible. The words were changed slightly over the years due to translations as well as religious officials who added portions to make the bible fit better with the constraints they wanted to have on religion.
2007-10-15 22:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by Stained Glass- Baby C 11/15/09!! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, there is no factual evidence to suggest that the bible is anything more than a collection of extremely old myths and legends, most of which were stolen from earlier civilizations. Feel free to provide some.
That is a fact.
2007-10-15 21:56:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Columbus did read the Bible, or at least, he knew Biblical teaching (Bibles were hard to come by in the 1400's - rare and expensive). He was on a Christian expedition to convert the people of India and was financed by Ferdinand and Isabella, the monarchy of Spain. They were all devout Catholics.
2007-10-15 22:28:52 · answer #5 · answered by Myth Buster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible itself provokes unbelief on account of its contents. It contains contradictory accounts of the same events, it advocates behavior which civilised people know to be immoral (such as genocide and slavery), it presents God in a defamatory manner (potraying Him as being partial to unsavory people [Jacob was a thief and a liar], having a hair-trigger temper, giving out trivial laws [no gathering sticks on the Sabbath!], killing people on the slightest pretext, etc, etc...)
2007-10-15 21:57:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's just nothing to provoke belief in the Bible other than the desire to believe it
2007-10-15 21:49:48 · answer #7 · answered by Jack P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pride
2007-10-15 21:51:32 · answer #8 · answered by wrench'n away 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My source of disbelief came when I realised that my fellow Christians were much more concerned in defending the divinity of Jesus than in practicing his words: love one another.... just as long as one another is christian and preferably catholic, otherwise, you can't marry my daughter. Screw that!! I don't remember Jesus EVER saying "Love Only those who think I qam the lamb of god! All the others are unworthy of love!!"
2007-10-15 21:51:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Read the Bible where it describes the earth. In the Bible the earth is flat, held up by pillars (like a giant oceanic oil-rig) and the sun revolves around the earth. The sky is a mirrored dome with the sun, moon and stars affixed to the underside. The moon creates it’s own light. Above the dome, God sits on a throne in heaven. God, who’s as strong as a unicorn, rides cherubs and came to earth to show his “back parts” to one man and wrestle with another. The Bible tells of unicorns, cockatrices, and satyrs. Snakes, trees and donkeys talk. Does this sound like reality to you?
Why would God make Noah save Mosquitoes, parasitic wasps and komodo dragons while watching innocent human babies drown?
Read Eccl. 3:18-20: That Men “might see that they themselves are beasts. …Yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”
Read the parts where God condones and even rewards slavery, murder, infanticide, rape, mutilation, etc.
You need to understand that the Bible is describing the God you would worship if you were Christian.
The idea of a "sky daddy" who will protect you on earth and give you a life after you die is a very powerful one. However, it is not reality, as you may have already discovered.
Just remember, anyone can promise you anything, But can they back it up?
Here's a picture of heaven as described in the Bible:
Read the Bible where it describes the earth. In the Bible the earth is flat, held up by pillars (like a giant oceanic oil-rig) and the sun revolves around the earth. The sky is a mirrored dome with the sun, moon and stars affixed to the underside. The moon creates it’s own light. Above the dome, God sits on a throne in heaven. God, who’s as strong as a unicorn, rides cherubs and came to earth to show his “back parts” to one man and wrestle with another. The Bible tells of unicorns, cockatrices, and satyrs. Snakes, trees and donkeys talk. Does this sound like reality to you?
Why would God make Noah save Mosquitoes, parasitic wasps and komodo dragons while watching innocent human babies drown?
Read Eccl. 3:18-20: That Men “might see that they themselves are beasts. …Yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”
Read the parts where God condones and even rewards slavery, murder, infanticide, rape, mutilation, etc.
You need to understand that the Bible is describing the God you would worship if you were Christian.
The idea of a "sky daddy" who will protect you on earth and give you a life after you die is a very powerful one. However, it is not reality, as you may have already discovered.
Just remember, anyone can promise you anything, But can they back it up?
Here's a picture of heaven as described in the Bible:
http://www.progressiveu.org/233447-does-the-bible-really-claim-the-earth-is-spherical
Is this the earth we live on? No, of course not. So where ever this strange place is located, it has a heaven. But this earth does not. There is no hard dome above it. It is not flat. Cherubs do not fly through the air. No one has found a live cockatrice or a fossil of one. Our trees, bushes and donkeys do not talk.Is this the earth we live on? No, of course not. So where ever this strange place is located, it has a heaven. But this earth does not. There is no hard dome above it. It is not flat. Cherubs do not fly through the air. No one has found a live cockatrice or a fossil of one. Our trees, bushes and donkeys do not talk.
2007-10-15 21:47:51 · answer #10 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋