If you don't believe in the BIBLE?

Question

What makes you not believe is there anything in particular in the BIBLE u don't believe or is it that you have never read it.

Answer 1

GoD iS LoVe.

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i LOVe tHE BiBlE

Answer 2

the Bible didn't do it for me. For many years I studied it (Jehovah's Witness), but as I grew older the relevance no longer worked for me (wholeheartedly). I started reading into Buddhism and it just clicked! Buddhism is, more or less, about accountability and peace toward others. It's about watering your good seeds and drying out the bad seeds within yourself. Buddhism has helped me cope with a number of situations that brought on suffering in my life. Without it, I think I would prob be an angry person. jmho

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
- Atisha



that's my story... you?

Answer 3

I've never finished it but I did start. I do believe in my own definition of God though I do not believe in the bible . This is because simply, for centuries before the bible was ever written down, it's stories were passed along through word of mouth. Anyone whose every been around people knows that this is the fastest way for any truth to be lost.

Answer 4

Here's one simple thing that makes me know that the Bible is not entirely factual...there is a passage in there about the end of the world, where it says the stars will fall from the sky onto the earth...we now know that the stars are actually massive suns, thousands of times larger than the earth..so to say a star can fall on the earth is just silly...a long time ago they thought stars were just little bits of light.

Answer 5

I've read it a couple of times. I don't like the fact that it started out written in Aramaic by primitive, uneducated, ancient people ... and has been edited, deleted, revised, translated, re-interpreted and messed around with so much for so many hundreds of years, by so many sane and not so sane people, (with self-serving agendas) that it's simply a shadow of it's original self today.

Plus, I DON'T believe a god :told: these peasant scribes what to write. PLUS I don't believe in the children's moral fables, PLUS I don't think any of it applies to us in the 21st century. Morals are instilled in children by mothers who know the law and don't want their kids to get beat up for being a jerk. So we don't even need an old bible or koran for that.

I think fine on my own, without a "play book." My mother raised me right.
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Answer 6

I have read the bible. Cover to cover. Genesis to Revelations. I have also studied Christian doctrine intensively as well as the history of their religion.

I think biblical literalist Christians who believe the bible is infallible, the DIRECT WORD OF GOD HIMSELF and EVERY directive it gives is 100% applicable and its laws are meant to be followed yesterday, TODAY, TOMORROW.
are intellectually deficient and lazy.

Any thinking person can clearly see that the bible has CULTURAL and HISTORIC limitations! The bible was written by men, it reflects the thinking of that age and the culture of that age certain aspects of which in today's world would be considred ignorant or inhumane. This does NOT mean that the bible cannot reflect universal wisdom that extends BEYOND, culture, time, history and show the influence of a Divine power in some of its verses.

You just have to discern which those are vs. which are man trying to understand his world and justify his actions using God.

Those who cannot tell the difference are left to actually believe it was GOD who commanded things like genocide and slavery in Numbers.

Those who assert the bible is 100% scientific have to answer to very unscientific things in the bible like pi being 3 or bats being referred to as birds.

Those who assert the bible is 100% accurate regarding history and chronology of human civilization will also fall into many factual pitfalls. We know through archeology that the bible is wrong on many things. For example, Daniel wrongly thought Belshazzar was the son of Nebuchadnezzar. But we know through historical findings and archeological evidence that Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 BCE and was succeeded by his son, Awil-Marduk. In 560 BCE, Amel-Marduk was assassinated by his brother-in-law, Nergal-shar-usur. The next and last king of Babylon was Nabonidus who reigned from 556 to 539, when Babylon was conquered by Cyrus. It was Nabonidus, and not Belshazzar, who was the last of the Babylonian kings. This invalidates Daniel completely.

Basically, the bible is a SPIRITUAL guide. It is not meant to be a science book or history book. Those who wish to see the bible as such, have severely limited their understanding of the world around them.

Answer 7

Are you really stupid enough to think people have never read the bible? You do realize that the majority of atheists used to be Christians right? Hell, most of the western countries used to be Christian. I refuse to believe you're this stupid.

Answer 8

The Message of Holy Quran is extremely clear compare to bible.Christian often derive trinity from bible, they fail to give a direct verse in bible which says that God is three in one.
Christian derive divinity of Jesus from bible, but bible fails to give a single verse in which Jesus himself claim to be god..

Bible has only one thing with clearity and that is lack of clearity

Answer 9

Could be the fact that it was written 100 years after Christ lived. Or maybe the fact that it only covers 2 years of Jesus's life. Or perhaps the fact that even Christians admit it's a severly edited, often misused and misunderstood text.
Or it could be that i'm a Heathen and we're still a little pissed about that whole forced conversion thing. I dunno.

Answer 10

The complete and total lack of evidence to support anything written in the bible is enough for me.....

Answer 11

I've read it from cover to cover 2 times, and different passages many times. There are many inconsistencies with what is written and what is taught by different religions, as to make me just say I'll categorize my placement of the bible in my library with other works of fiction.