Is the Bible and the Christian religion proof enough that god does not exist?

Answer 1

This does not really seem to be a question or an invitation to discussion, but it merely an attempt at provocation. God's existence is not dependent upon whether or not you accept the claims of particular revelation to be true. Nor would God require a particular revelation to be who God is. Revelations are for us, not God. Remember, philosophically speaking, for God to be God, God would have to be an reality that is neither contingent or conditioned by any other reality.

Answer 2

Not at all. Negative existence (as opposed to negative propositions) cannot be proven anyway! Therefore, there's no way possible to prove that God does not exist. What the Christian religion and the Bible "prove" is that "If God exists, God is one mean spirited, bloodthirsty SOB." That is, if you accept the Bible as an authentic revelation which I do not, therefore the Bible provides evidence of NOTHING.

The religion is ugly and rotten to its core. There is no beauty in it. The entire faith boiled down is "God is unable to forgive sins without bucketloads of blood" The entire religion is obsessed with sin, sickness and death. The religion itself IS the sickness. There's no beauty in it, therefore it is untrue. It never seemed to dawn on Jehovah that one can simply forgive period, and it is no real forgiveness anyway if you demand some payment or sacrifice in return! Nor does this Jehovah seem able to understand that love must be given freely or it is not love. You cannot threaten or bribe people into loving you. Just doesn't work. That's why I have no problem flipping the middle finger to Jehovah. Should such a being actually exist, it is obvious we are not dealing with God, not the real one.

As the poet Byron wrote "Beauty is Truth, and Truth Beauty. That is all I know and all I need to know." I like Nature because there's beauty in Nature. I like Science, because the phenomena of Nature can be expressed so beautifully by a simple elegant group of equations! There's more truth in the music of Beethoven or Chopin or Mozart than in the Bible! There's more wisdom in Shakespeare and Blake than Isaiah or Ezekiel!

And Christianity is not based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth anyway. Jesus was a very smart and beautiful person. His teachings were destroyed by another man, St. Paul, a man who despised sex, women and marriage and was a man consumed with guilt. In a word, he was a nut case.
It was not the Romans or Jews who murdered Jesus of Nazareth (Yeshua HaNotzri) it was Saul of Tarsus AKA Pauline.

I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Try Bishop Pike, Church of England who recognized Paul, who was probably a latent homosexual, as the chief corrupter of the Faith of Christ!

I wonder how long this post lasts before some disgruntled fundamentalist reports it as a violation. They can't deal with reality. The only way they can refute this argument is to destroy it!

Answer 3

The Bible is indeed strong proof that its god does not exist, since it is filled with glaring contradictions and pathetic ignorance about science and reality. It was obviously written by ignorant men who claimed to speak for a god one of them invented or copied from earlier ones. If a god existed, he would have killed these liars and told us how things really are. For other gods, one can look at other holy books about them that make little sense either.

Answer 4

I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

If you mean that both the Bible and the course of development of Christian doctrine both exhibit contradictions, that would merely demonstrate the imperfection of human writings and human institutions, whether or not they are focused on God.

You may find the impression of God you have obtained from these sources is one that you can't believe in. I can appreciate how that might happen. In particular, it's easy to find objectionable material in a piecemeal sampling of the Bible, although some recent writers have tended to add distortions (either deliberate or the result of sloppiness) to make it seem worse.

You may find the Bible or Christian doctrine unacceptable, but that does not have any bearing on the question of whether God exists; it merely discredits those sources (in your eyes) and the view of God you get from them. It may convince you that, if God exists, he isn't as described in the Bible or in the preaching of Christians.

And, frankly, I can understand that. There's a lot of ostensibly Christian but utterly revolting material out there. The Bible is, of course, a special case, but I gave up the notion of its perfection some time ago.

I also gave up the notion of a God who is completely understandable or describable by humans. That makes my Christianity invulnerable to your sort of "disproof." Of course, it also forces me to acknowledge that I can't prove God's existence, either.

I can live with that. If my faith is to give me enough strength to deal with the human condition (particularly mine), it had better be built on the realities of that condition, and one of them is that we don't have any proof one way or the other. We get to decide what we believe. That's free will (another major element of Christian doctrine).

Answer 5

No. If anything it is proof that God does exist. Further more if you are wanting proof of God, it is not just the Christian religion. The Jewish religion also believes in God. And various other religions believe in God also. They just give him a different name. Ex. Allah.

Answer 6

No! On the contrary it is proof that God does exist!
He longs to have a relationship with His creation (all people) and He reveals that in the Bible.

Answer 7

Only if you choose to perceive it with a closed mind and in a negative way. People can by free will rationalize things and seek out evidence to reinforce that rationalization. An open mind allows knowledge in.

Answer 8

If you use that premise for either side of the argument you need to include all religious books.

Answer 9

Yes. Man invented god when he didn't know or couldn't figure out answers to difficult questions.

Answer 10

Sure