just out of curiosity, have you honestly read the bible?
2007-11-14 07:42:29 · 46 answers · asked by kelsey.dgaf 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yep.
2007-11-14 07:46:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Mom's father was a Baptist pastor, and I began reading some at age 2. I read the Bible every day before I began school. I attended church regularly, and the Sunday school teacher asked how many Bible verses we read that week. I read 50 to 100 every week. YES, I HAVE HONESTLY READ THE BIBLE!!!! Mom's parents both taught school too, so there were many books around. I read science books at age 6 that 12 years olds could not comprehaend. I began to see errors in the bible at age 7. I saw ever more mistakes in it as I grew older and wiser. I still had to attend church until I left for college, but I told Dad when I was age 11 that I did not believe in God and Heaven. in college, I took Bible History, and I got a degree in Art and Philosophy. My oldest sister is jealous because I know the Bible much better than she does. I know it much better than most people, and I know much about major world religions too. i'll bet I know more about Bible, Quran, Tao Te Ching, Bhagivadgita, Torah, Book of Mormon, etc. than you do. I know religions well, so I know the contradictions in holy books and can refute them well.
2007-11-14 08:16:06 · answer #2 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, that is actually why I am an atheist now. I was raised Baptist (not the crazy racist kind) and went to a christian camp every summer. One summer I decided to read it all because nobody there ever did ( kids, not counselors).
After reading it I felt that it was too contradictory and began pursuing other religions. After looking into Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism I looked at old religions or "Mythology" like the Greeks. After studying the history of religions and how the modern ones came to be I realised that if a religion was ever true it was in the Paleolithic era and therefore not a single bit of it remains. So, don't believe in any religion really.
2007-11-14 07:53:54 · answer #3 · answered by Cato 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm a doubter...not athiest yet....but I have read, and re-read, the bible. I have found that many more Christians have never really read the bible than atheists. Most of the ones I know are formerly of a faith of some kind...perhaps that's why. But I know a lot of Christians that can quote you what their pastor talked about last week...but they don't have an intimate understanding many times of what they profess to defend.
2007-11-14 07:49:22 · answer #4 · answered by Night Owl 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, many times. Hence why I went from being Roman Catholic to Atheist. I have read the Bible and went to Catholic School through to grade 12. Took religious studies courses at University as an option to my degree, with which the religion course looked at Christianity, Islam and Judaism. All of that put me on the path to salvation of my mind and allowed me to become an atheist.
EDIT: I am always a firm believer that if you want to put faith and belief into something you must look at ALL the evidence and you must question that belief and faith. If not then how can you truly believe in something if you are not willing to question it and look at all the evidence?
2007-11-14 07:52:21 · answer #5 · answered by disturbed001500 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I was brought up as a strict Christian and was forced to study rather than read the bible. So I have not only read it many times, I have also seriously studied it.
I am now an atheist.
2007-11-14 07:58:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I took Bible classes, starting with the fifth grade, and all through high school, and I enjoyed it.
By tenth grade I was diagnosed with atheism.
Even after I knew there was no god, I still enjoyed learning more about the Bible. I have learned a lot, but it is difficult to imagine adults actually believe that stuff.
The Bible is the atheist's best reference book.
2007-11-14 07:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I actually participate in a weekly Bible study. I think it's very important to form an educated opinion, and to do that, you have to actually be educated on the subject at hand.
2007-11-14 08:30:26 · answer #8 · answered by Noressa S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yars. I had it rammed down my throat for about 6 years of marriage.
Also read it at school. Also read it on my own when about 20 yrs old.
Every reading has just confirmed that it is man-made, adapted from other mythologies, superstitions, cultural traits and customs, superstitious 'lore' related to health and society, creation myths, bits of history and men's minds. It is eerily, transparently, a primitive male ego-fest laced with all the trappings of Bronze Age desert life and obsessions with war, tribes, lineage, inclement weather, shamanistic 'prophecies', natural disasters and bloodlines.
2007-11-14 07:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I've read the Latin Vulgate, the Greek New Testament, the King James, the Douay-Rheims, and several other English translations.
Why do you ask?
2007-11-14 07:49:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes - New English version, cover to cover twice.
It is the bible that has made me an atheist.
2007-11-14 08:02:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋