Why is the Bible not so popular?

Question

I LOVE the Bible! It is nonfiction AND mystery, love, fantasy, adventure, realistic, etc etc!
Why don't people like it? I mean, obviously they have different religions but what's NOT to believe or like about the Bible?

Aw... don't say it's fiction or absurd or contradictory!!! Give an example to your reasoning so I can learn learn learn.

Okay, then, let me reword this. Why do so many people not believe it? Give me examples! Proof!
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Answer 1

First you have to explain how it is unpopular considering it is the best selling book of all time (4 to 6 billion copies).

Answer 2

The violence, the cruelty, the fact that people do not realize that it is <5% non-fiction and >95% fiction.


What is not to believe? Most of it.

Edit:
Examples?
How about PI = 3.0? 2 Chronicles 4:2
Hares are ruminants? Leviticus 11:5 -6
The entire Noah's ark story.

The massacre of all infants under 2 would have been recorded. That was a biggie even for Herod the Great.

BTW Herod the Great was dead at the time described.

Nazareth has no cliffs around it to be thrown from as described in Luke 4:29

There is a lot of other stuff as well.

Answer 3

It is a great book. But people chose to worship God/Jesus first and foremost, above His creation.

I believe it is God inspired, and absolutely true.

But I'm not infallible like the pope says he is. If I get to heaven and God says "Couldn't you tell it was parables" I will not be crushed.

It is not so much that the bible is not loved and respected. But the possibility has occured to many that it could be allegorical, or worse.

So people focus on Jesus, to the point that they take HIM ahead of the Word of God.

I think they may be the same, "In the begining was the 'Word' (Jesus) and the Word was with God" (John 1: 1)

The Bible is the world's most beloved, and owned, and read book!!!

Yet Jesus is far more beloved. Many prefer Him over it.

I don't mean to defend the common practice of people "adopting" Him...even if they doubt the bible! To me it needs to be BOTH!

Answer 4

Sweetheart, you obviously haven't studied the Bible.

There are hundreds of different religions, with their studied theologians...who each interpret the same Bible and same scripture differently...each one thinks they are right and that the other is wrong.

The Bible taken as a whole as a guide book is good...but, to literally try to interpret each verse is impossible...

Answer 5

Actually, it's very poorly written, has many absurdities, contradictions and blatant falsehoods, and is very much fiction.

edit: example - Matthew says Judas gave the silver back and hung himself, Acts says he bought a field with the silver and fell into it a burst open. It cannot be both. There are hundreds of these examples.

Answer 6

You're wrong about the nonfiction part.

[edit:] And BTW, the bible is the best selling book in the world.

The bible says the universe is static, yet it has been proven that it's expanding.

I gave you proof.

Answer 7

ummm the bible is a centuries old Roberts Rules of Order.
Crawl out from under your rock.

Answer 8

Although about 90% of the world population owns one, how is it not popular?

Answer 9

Oh there's a lot to not believe or like in the Bible.

Rape. Genocide. Incest. The contradictions.

I could go on.

Answer 10

if you like it for the stories... that's fine... it is a good moral compass...sometimes.
but when you believe it to be fact is when ...well...when things blur.
as far as it being a factual writing and truth... its too easy to pick apart and show how flawed it is.
in respect to reality that is.
some of it common sense...most of it fairy tales with a meaning behind it