I just mean honestly how could you not believe on God?
he is the one that let you live he died on the cross for your sins and
just tell me how i mean there is so much proof i mean read the bible
i know you can believe what you want but tell me how?
2007-12-01 03:53:12 · 11 answers · asked by Matt 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The teaching of Jesus was originally thought to be a way of life. Then Paul started pushing the Deity part. You see he saw a burning bush. However this was him trying to convince other churches that existed at the time, these churches were more family sized (5 to 10) than the large gatherings we see today. Then 50 to 100 years later the Gospels were written. Based on stories repeated, though these stories were intermingled with fabled deities from other lands (Mithraism, Attis of Phrygia, Cybele, and others), they may have even been pages of Paul. They used name of apostles and great storytellers of the time. And beliefs evolved and changed.
At the Council of Nicea around 325ce, 300 or more ministers and teachers gathered and formed the Catholic Church basics.
This is why you believe the way we do today.
2007-12-01 03:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The truth is, Matt, that the Bible cannot be used as evidence by anyone with an IQ over 70. It is completely unreliable.
There may have been people crazy enough to actually believe that they were prophets, but then again, people also used to believe that a priestess sticking her head in a volcanic lava tube and inhaling hallucinogenic fumes came out speaking the word of Apollo. Not only that, but the Bible has been rewritten and revised so many times that its validity is very slight.
People using the Bible as evidence are quite foolish and don't understand its history. It was written by humans and was edited on many occasions to fit their beliefs. The most influential revision occurred during the 300's CE, after the Council of Nicea. Before there was any "official" Scriptures, the Church clubbed together and decided to filter out books that contradicted what they wanted to teach. The highest ranking Church members voted on official doctrines they wanted to base their religion around. The most important one was deciding whether they wanted to teach that Jesus was divine and the literal Son of God, or if he was just a very important prophet. It was close, but they decided that Jesus was divine. They then eliminated any book in the Bible that stated different from this. About 40 different Gospels were circulating at the time, but they cut the number down to 27. Any other texts that were found were burned. They also eliminated any Old Testament books that referred to the coming Messiah as a mere human sent by God, and not God himself.The remaining ones underwent serious revision by the Vatican. They had their scholars copy out and translate (poorly) new versions of the Bible. The scribes had to work at such fast paces that these were unavoidable. Some of these mistranslations were so immense that they have completely changed the Christian religion. For instance, the word that was translated as "virgin" that was used to describe Mary would instead be correctly read as meaning "young girl." Nothing in the original Bible claims that Jesus was born of virgin. The entire idea of Immaculate Conception is only inferred from these texts.
These revisions and the destruction of other texts are why there is such controversy surrounding alternate books, like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of Judas.
There may be a God, but by no means did he write the Bible. You cannot accurately claim that the Bible is evidence.
2007-12-01 04:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How can you believe in god? There's an invisible dude in some sort of disneyland in the clouds watching everything I do? C'mon now! It's absurd. Just because a bunch of people agree with it doesn't make it any less absurd. Millions of people thought gassing Jews was a good idea, too. That doesn't make them right.
2007-12-01 04:00:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you consider the Bible as proof, there's no reason for me to attempt to convince you otherwise. The Bible is far from anything that I would consider evidence, as far as atheists are concerned.
I'll put it a different way: How could someone not believe in Allah? The proof is in the Koran.
2007-12-01 04:00:19 · answer #4 · answered by Alex H 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not any antichrist, I am an atheist.
OK, so you don't understand how I cannot believe in your god. You understand my words when I say that I do not believe in your god (or any god) because there is absolutely no evidence to support the existence of any god.
You then tell me that the bible is evidence. How do you consider a book evidence that supports the existence of a god? Just because I write on paper, that an invisible pink unicorn exists, does it make it evidence to support the existence of this unicorn?
If you have further evidence, please present them, instead of babbling.
We need to think critically. Please.
2007-12-01 04:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by CC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you dont .... know!...anything... you dont ... know... that the seas parted... you dont.... know.... that he died on the cross.....you dont.... know!...... that he rolled the stone back......
THE PROBLEM IS.....you dont... know!... there... is no proof!. you say it is in the pages of a book written by serverly uneducated men...in a time of many..."myths"...and you state that as fact.
you dont..... know.....
you.... hope........ because...as much as you want it to be true... you..cannot prove it...and ...never will
thing about the current religions.... is that they are only slightly different that the thousands of religions that have already died off.... it is just another religion that is destined to be put away by common sense....as we ask more questions ...and prove out more theories of our existance....and some day....we will .. prove... there is no... proof in the bible....and another deity will fall ...fall into the same category..as thor, zeus, ra, isis, odin, loki, hercules, posidien, set, mercury, venus, ..etc (to name a few (i dont have all day to write all the names that have come and gone))
so....what makes... jesus....different?.. than lll of those?...and dont just give me the standard... he died on the cross.....TELL ME WHAT MAKES HIM.....DIFFERENT...SUPERIOR?.
2007-12-01 04:10:20 · answer #6 · answered by pencilnbrush 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you not believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster? It's all told in the Gospel of Flying Spaghetti Monster (available at Amazon, I believe.)
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You do realize the asker is a kid?
2007-12-01 04:02:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Muslims believe one an only God who created the world. Jesus didn't create the world. He was himself creation of God. It is your problem that you don't understand the reality.
It doesn't make us Anti-Christ. We believe Jesus what he is. I mean Prophet. You know we respect Jesus as much as we respect Prophet Mohammad.
2007-12-01 06:08:31 · answer #8 · answered by majeed3245 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you ever grow up (as a human), you'll figure out for yourself.
2007-12-01 04:42:04 · answer #9 · answered by :) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another poor brainwashed soul who hasn't tried to learn anything apart from what he's been told.... sad.
2007-12-01 03:56:34 · answer #10 · answered by Cheryl E 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋